Blog post #4

I recently read the book Slaves of Socorro. I was surprised when the book introduced Hal's old rival from the brotherhood trials. Tursgud from the shark clan became a traitor of the Skandians. Hal gets assigned to patrol duty along the Araluen coast under the treaty. They have certain duties to protect the coast from raiders.
Soon, they come across Gilan, and the fact that there were 12 Araluen slaves that had been kidnapped.
I don't get why the author created such ludicrous plans in the plot. There clearly was a lot of stupidity in the plan that was next to impossible to achieve. The desperate gambles resulted in surprising success. I couldn't believe that all of that happened.
I was interested in how the author constructed the characteristics in characters of the story
" 'I plan to be subtle,' he [Thorn] said. 
'Once we go through that door, I'll bash anything that moves. And if they don't move, Stig will bash them.'
'You have a strange concept of subtle,' Gilan said."

This is clearly showing Thorn's very upfront and brash as well as Gilan's calmer attitude. 

Slaves of Socorro is a great book that you should definitely read.