Books like The Beast Player
Elin's mother cares for the giant water serpents that are the backbone of the kingdom's army, and when several die on her watch she is sentenced to death; Elin, alone, finds she can do what no one else can with the realm's beasts.
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Malice
In the Banished Lands, where giants once ruled, Corban, a blacksmith's son, wants only to become a warrior, while kings gather for war, an old prophecy stirs and a wolven pup attaches itself to him.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Balsa, a thirty-year-old spear-wielding bodyguard, saves the young prince Chagum from drowning and is hired to protect him from his own father's assassins, who believe the spirit egg the boy carries must be destroyed.
Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
Assassin's Apprentice
A six-year-old royal bastard left at Buckkeep Castle is raised in the stables and secretly trained by the king's assassin while he discovers two forbidden magics, the Skill and the Wit.
Dawn of Wonder
A boy enters a legendary military academy where the training is brutal and the mysteries of an ancient power lie buried beneath.
Magician
Pug, an orphaned kitchen boy at the castle of Crydee, is apprenticed to the magician Kulgan just as invaders from another world begin coming through a rift in space, and the war that follows carries him and his friend Tomas far from home.
A Wizard of Earthsea
A young wizard on an island archipelago unleashes a shadow from the land of the dead and must chase it across the world to make himself whole.
Elantris
A prince discovers he can heal the mysterious disease destroying his kingdom's magic, but the cure demands a terrible price.
The Last Wish
Geralt of Rivia, a witcher who hunts monsters for pay, rests at a temple of the goddess Melitele after a hard fight and remembers the jobs that brought him there.
The Dragonbone Chair
A kitchen boy in a crumbling castle discovers he is at the centre of a prophecy when an ancient evil stirs beneath the mountains.
Powers
Gavir, an enslaved boy in a city-state who has visions of the future, grows up loyal to the household that owns him, until a betrayal sends him in search of freedom, in the third book of the Annals of the Western Shore.
The Warded Man
Every night demons rise from the ground to hunt and humanity cowers behind magical wards; after his mother's death, eleven-year-old Arlen Bales leaves his village sure that people should fight back, while an herb gatherer's apprentice and a young jongleur find their own ways to survive.