The Lost Stories

I am about to start The Lost Stories by John Flanagan. the book is made up of short stories that fill in a lot of detail through the Ranger Apprentice series. I hope that it'll be worth reading but I feel that ill have to fight through it to finish it and it'll be boring. I think this because of a couple reasons. first I have read other books like this and they where really bad. Also what I like about his writing he cant do in a few chapter which will limit how good the book can be. I hope that it'll turn out to a good read but I feel that it'll be a fight to get through.
-Zach

Reflaction of the emperor of Nihon-Ja

I just finished the book  The Emperor of Nihon-Ja by John Flanagan. This was a great book and would recommend it to any one but first you have to read the other books in the series. In the beginning of the book there's a lot of action and it gets right to the story line. the action goes till about half way through the book and then it really slowed down. when you reach half way though the book it gets hard to get though and concentrate on the book. after a while I stopped reading it and started another book. after a day or too I picked it back up and after 10 minutes of reading I finally got to the action of the end. This was I great book that I would recommend to everyone. though it gets really slow the end is worth to keep reading.
 -Zach