The Runaway King
REVIEW: The Runaway King by Jennifer Nielsen THE STORY:
The main character of The Runaway King, Jaron, finally returns to his castle after four years of hiding in an orphanage in Avenia and a few months of training to act like a king. He returns and starts practicing sword fighting with Mott, his friend. After a few months of this, Roden, his friend turned enemy, comes with a pirate to see Jaron. Roden carries a message intended to threaten Jaron into submission. How Roden and the pirate enter the castle is by Jaron’s captain of the guard, Gregor, allowing them to pass, who is actually on the pirate’s side and is plotting to overthrow Jaron. After Jaron is hurt by the pirates, the regents ,his advisors, make a vote to hide away the king to protect him, so that he loses his power and his current captain, Gregor, starts to gain power. Jaron finds out about this and comes up with a plan to join the pirates and to make the pirates become allies with his country. He succeeds in preparing his friend Tobias to act in his place as king and escapes on his horse to the pirates’ camp while disguised as another person. On his way there, a band of thieves capture him and Jaron finds out their leader, Erick, is friends with the pirates, so Erick joins Jaron in becoming a pirate. Once they get to the pirate camp, Erick’s pirate friends recognize him and decide to add him and Jaron. After a few days, the pirate king starts to become suspicious, and he decides that he is going to whip some of Jaron’s friends and Jaron because he thinks Jaron might be some servant of the Carthyan king. (283) MY OPINION:
The book was fast paced and always had me wanting to read the next page. The style of the book was a style with interesting characters and exciting action. Some of the main characters in the story are Jaron, Gregor, and Mott. Jaron in the beginning of the story was already a very well developed character since he is the most important of all the main characters in the
The main character of The Runaway King, Jaron, finally returns to his castle after four years of hiding in an orphanage in Avenia and a few months of training to act like a king. He returns and starts practicing sword fighting with Mott, his friend. After a few months of this, Roden, his friend turned enemy, comes with a pirate to see Jaron. Roden carries a message intended to threaten Jaron into submission. How Roden and the pirate enter the castle is by Jaron’s captain of the guard, Gregor, allowing them to pass, who is actually on the pirate’s side and is plotting to overthrow Jaron. After Jaron is hurt by the pirates, the regents ,his advisors, make a vote to hide away the king to protect him, so that he loses his power and his current captain, Gregor, starts to gain power. Jaron finds out about this and comes up with a plan to join the pirates and to make the pirates become allies with his country. He succeeds in preparing his friend Tobias to act in his place as king and escapes on his horse to the pirates’ camp while disguised as another person. On his way there, a band of thieves capture him and Jaron finds out their leader, Erick, is friends with the pirates, so Erick joins Jaron in becoming a pirate. Once they get to the pirate camp, Erick’s pirate friends recognize him and decide to add him and Jaron. After a few days, the pirate king starts to become suspicious, and he decides that he is going to whip some of Jaron’s friends and Jaron because he thinks Jaron might be some servant of the Carthyan king. (283) MY OPINION:
The book was fast paced and always had me wanting to read the next page. The style of the book was a style with interesting characters and exciting action. Some of the main characters in the story are Jaron, Gregor, and Mott. Jaron in the beginning of the story was already a very well developed character since he is the most important of all the main characters in the