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Summary: Classic fantasy
Review: Raymond Feist is noted for creating memorable characters and well realized suspense. This new series, THE SERPENTWAR SAGA, is no different. The stories take place in Krondor, the site of Feist's previous RIFTWAR SAGA. Two friends, Erik Von Darkmoor, the hardworking illegitimate son of a baron, and Rupert Avery, a young rogue, first face hanging for the murder of Erik's noble half brother, who they caught raping a friend. They are reprieved from the gallows by an offer to serve in the King's army. Little do they know the evil that requires King Borric to recruit murderers to fight
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Summary: Pretty bloody good
Review: Really enjoyed this one. Liked the main character, Eric, too.FEIST doesn't write with the depth of a DONALDSON or MARTIN, but what he does do, is entertain. This is a good piece of escapism that'll fill in a rainy day just fine!
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Shadow of a Dark Queen by Raymond E Feist is an epic fantasy of grand proportions. Feist has the ability to clearly define his characters within his stories expanding upon who they are and why they are the way they for the main characters, while clearly making his not so prominent characters stand out in personality. He invents a world the reader wants to know more about. As they read further, they will find that they can't put the book down, and by the end of it, will be looking for and picking up the second book in this series to find out what happens next.
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Summary: Feist shows a new side of Midkemia
Review: Shadow of a Dark Queen is the newest adventure set on the world of Midkemia. Set approximately twenty five years after the last book, this novel introduces the reader to an all new cast of characters.
The story evolves around young Erik von Darkmoor and Rupert "Roo" Avery. Gone are the great heroes from earlier novels, such as Arutha, Pug, Lyam, Borric, and Jimmy the Hand. While a few members of the original cast have brief appearances, the story is largely comprised of all new characters and takes place in the land introduced in King's Buccaneer, Novindus.
Unlike previous Feist novels, inside we find characters who are in the gray area between good and evil. The characters appear to have been written to be more identifiable by the reader, but I think I related more to the original cast more. Most of the new characters are basically good, but not in the same vein as Arutha conDoin and Mara of the Acoma. Where Mara and Arutha were fighting for the Kingdom and the Empire, Erik and Roo fight for their lives and their families. Expect a different feel from this new series than you got from previous works.
Overall, the story was very good, only getting bad marks for being a tad on the technical side. If you are a military buff, you will thoroughly enjoy this book, as will most readers who have liked Feist's earlier books.
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Summary: Feist's finest piece yet.
Review: The book is actually named "Erik's Tale" and it takes place during a year of the life of a bastard son. It is narrated with a grace and power that keeps you turning pages until it ends. There are many characters, far to many to number, and each has a life of its own. So real these characters behave that you feel for them when some die during the story. Honostly, this is a book that had me visualising the scope of a universe like no other.
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Summary: The Dirty Dozen Meets the Hobbit
Review: The plot situation keeps you reading to the end. Feist could have given Erik and Roo, his main characters, more to do; too many of the events were solved by other characters. The world is standard issue fantasy-land -- pre-capitalist economy, elves, sorcerers -- within a fascinating science fictional frame. The style is functional and rushed. The characters are banal; it's like reading about the teenagers next door in an extraordinary adventure. More precisely, this book is the Dirty Dozen meets the Hobbit meets Leave It to Beaver
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Summary: Best Fantasy Book Series Since "Feist's" Riftwar Saga!
Review: This book brings alive a mixture of medieval life mixed in a fantasy world. Robert E. Feist has a knack for giving his books a flare of the "real" world of medieval times along with the mixture of fantasy much like "Lords of the Rings" by "Tolkien". I recommend ALL of his books from the "Midkemia" world that encompasses his stories.
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Summary: Very cool book my friends....
Review: This book takes you back where The King's Buccaner left the story line hanging at. I have heard about the Serpents from the point of "A Darkness at Sethanon", but wondered where they came from and what there intent they had in store for Midkemia. I have read all of Raymond E. Feist's books and would recommend this one for any reader. When you start reading the books you get the feeling that you are right there with Pug, Tomas, Eric and the rest of the characters. I started reading this particular book two days ago and just finished it about three hours ago. This book builds up characters and introduces some new ones that Feist leaves mysterious so that you can learn about them later on in the series. In closing... If you have never read any of Feist's books you are missing out. If you have read about the Riftwar then the Serpentwar series is another set of books you won't be able to put down.
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Summary: Regurgitated Riftwar
Review: This book, while probably entertaining to those reader who haven't read Feist's previous Midkemian series, was pathetically close to his previous series in characters and plot. People from another world come through a portal to take over Midkemia, and the world is further threatened by The Valheru and Pantathians. The secondary characters are predictably eliminated, while the primary characters appear to be lifted from Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Feist is apparently hoping most of his readers haven't read his previous series, or at least are so enthralled by his previous characters that they want more of the same
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Summary: Fabulous
Review: This entire series was excellant. I adored it. It not only kept me up until 4 in the morning on a school night, but when I had finished the book, I wanted to start over at the beginning again and read it. That is definately a first- usually when I finish a book, I don't read it again for quite a while, but Shadow of a Dark Queen was differnt. I actually went back and re-read my favorite parts of the book. I definately recommend this to everyone.
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