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Summary: Decent reading but not the best
Review: This series is decent fantasy reading, but it is predictable and the climax for this book leaves you wanting. It can be written much better, it seems in the end to fall together much to easily and doesnt leave you with a twist. But it is good reading if you want a fantasy book and you cant help but follow the characters that you grow with if you read feists work.
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Summary: Third Book
Review: Very good follows characters as set out in last two books.
I thought the story was well written. I enjoyed reading this book.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: Hard to believe this is from the author of "Magician" and the "Empire" series. Tedious, trite, unimaginative - unfortunately consistent with the rest of this dreadful series.
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Summary: A good action-packed read
Review: I've never played the Krondor games on which this book is based, but I found the read enjoyable regardless. Feist is an entertaining writer, and with the Riftwar Legacy series, he's returned to focusing on well-rounded popular characters like Jimmy the Hand and Arutha. This is a far more pleasing turn, since the I didn't like the characters in the Serpentwar Saga quite as much.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: No matter what other people say about Feist's latest book I would have to say he keeps true to his series. I think this book fills in some of the background for James and other characters. I played the game (Return to Krondor) and I found that the book filled in some gaps that the game left out. No matter what other people say this book is a 5 + star.
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Summary: A Book about the Video Game
Review: As Raymond pointed out in the opening of the book, this book is based on a 'Krondor' video game and boy, was he not joking. For anyone who has ever played the kind of role-playing type game like the well-known 'Krondor' games, this book will seem very familiar. The characters are extreamly undeveloped with Raymond basically hoping that his previous books with Jimmy the Hand will make up for this one. The plot follows the 'recipe' progression that a role-playing video game follows. In order for this to happen, you must ask this specific question, with this hand sign, leave the room, go to another building, then come back and the door will now be open - for no particular reason. The plot was fairly good but was completly destroyed, in my opinion, by the extream violence that was in no way ever eleviated by any humor. Jimmy fought vampires, necromancers, frankensteins, and baby-sacrificing trolls (give me a break here - this isn't Buffy the Vampire Slayer), only to chalk it up in the anti-climatical end to some god that loves chaos, hates Arutha, and speaks through his dead minions. The plot is uninspired and this 'new evil' is so obviously not 'new' thateven Jimmy remarks how similar this whole situation is to the whole Marmandamus series. Really Raymond, I loved your series - but you could do so much better then this - I don't recommend this book at all.
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Summary: Feist continues to write excellent books, but not this one..
Review: This is the third, and probably last, book of the Riftwar Saga. Being a favorite of mine, I must say this book mostly does it justice, but there are some definite issues. One, it's a bit too short, sweet, but never-the-less, short. Sure, there are lots of pages, yes, but the font is huge, and the content is somewhat lacking in the end. I read it straight through in 1.5 hours or so (the other two books in the series took me 2-2.5 each). Two, the story is a bit mucky, there are some twists and turns, but none of the finely woven conspiracies which made his other writings famous. Three, he did not develop inter-character relationships very well during the book, some of the characters (especially the new introduction, Jazhara) seem a bit transparent, and lack emotional depth. Those may seem like big holes, but really they're not, all in all fans will be pleased, and this is a good fantasy read in the end.
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Summary: A good read.
Review: I am sorry but I have to say I was disappointed with this book, as a novel goes it was ok, but I have come to expect far more from Ray (thou after Betrayal and Assasins I shouldn't be supprised). All three of teh books that Ray has written based on computers games have been tediously plotted following the game more than they should have. I personaly have enjoyed the games but find the book addaptions slavish to the games when they are different mediums and not really suited to mixing. Yes this book did have some nice twists in it (and no I don't think Hilda was one of them but I do want to know more.....) some nice characterisations William in particular, wasn't over impressed with Jazhara (sorry but I wouldn't want the grand daughter of a rival nations spy master as my magical assistant) and I found her morality to be unrealistic. All in all if you are a fan of Feist then you will read this (but wait for the paperback edition its cheaper or get it from the libary or second hand (sorry amazon)). If your not a fan WHY NOT??? then do yourself a favour and start with Magician and work your way throu several thousand pages of pure joy... And Ray if you read this please get back to the serpent war novels you left us on a cliff edge!!! THE PRICE OF IMMORTALITY by C.M. Whitlock was a welcome surprise to the fantasy world I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Summary: Suprisingly disappointing.
Review: I have only recently found Feist's books (in the last few months) and have been busily reading them. No doubt this guy is writing some of the best fantasy novels out there. The Riftwar and Serpent War Saga's are first rate. I read "Tear of the Gods" with great anticipation. Character development is amazingly thin for a Feist work. As others suggest, it reads just like the PC game is played. I felt like any minute we would see a line that says, "...and Jimmy gained a level." I laughed aloud at the earlier review's point of using the same phrase over and over - I noticed that also. The constant rush from battle to battle, minor sub-missions that only delay the action rather than develop the plot make this a tedious read in many places. I would have bought it no matter the reviews just to finish out the series. Perhaps the reason this is less than Feist's best is found in the book's dedication as he describes personal matters that made this book difficult to write. Hopefully with those issues in the past, we can look forward to more of his usual stellar work.
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Summary: THATS NOT FEIST
Review: well, first i have read all the books written by Feist and they are the best. This whole series is not like his other books. I personally like books with battles(like magician). This book is more like a computer game, not like a true fantasy book. One reason that i didn't like this book was that i am soooooo fed up with James(jimmy the hand). And anyways if u read all the books you know the ending already. James will live, Locklear dies,..... In his later books he writes about it. I recommend all the books by Feist(exclude the Riftwar Legacy)
and all the books by Tokien "please Feist write as you used too."
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