The Novice

One of the books I read the Novice by Taran Matharu. This book was about a teenager named Fletcher who finds that he has the ability to summon demons. He started out was a humble blacksmith who was left on the snow on a cold winter. What I liked most is that after he escaped his home town, Pelt, he travelled to a school called Vocans Academy and starts to train and increase his powering all the classes. Something that surprised me was that Fletcher stood out among the group of Summoners, he became the best Summoner out of the entire class the later on, he wins the tournament by defeating Tarquin in the final round. This is important because when he wins the tournament he receives the title of Captain and plans to take his abilities to fight on the Front Lines.

As I was reading, I noticed that Fletcher's secret of almost murdering Didric, his long time enemy, was going to come back to haunt him. What I disliked most about the story was that Rook, one of Fletcher's teachers, found out about what Fletcher had done, and in the final moments of the novel, he called the Pinkertons, the people who enforce the law of the king, to arrest Fletcher for the attempted murder of Didric Cavell. In truth he was only protecting himself and the attack was an act of self-defense.This is similar to how kids these days are being bullied and blamed for things they haven't done.