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Summary: A climatic closure to the riftwar series
Review: The riftwar saga has been a wonderfully entertaining series from Raymond E Feist and A Darkness At Sethanon lives up to its predecesors. The book is packed with excitment and intrigue as the tale builds to its climatic finish. Just like Magician and Silverthorn, Feist explores the greater celestial battle and explains further the fates of the Valheru and The Enemy. However while the excitment of the epic battle sequences dominates the novel the character development is alowed to become shalow. It's not quite as good as Magician and Silverthorn but is still a must read for lovers of the series.
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Summary: the perfect culmination
Review: Taken alone, this is a good book. But after Magician and Silverthorn it's perfect. Everything- every stray thought, every suposedly useless character, every unexplained event- in the previous books is explained and finds its meaning in these pages. One of the best parts is seeing both Pug and Tomas (especially Tomas!) finally come into the power promised them from the beginning. Since I had also read both Prince of the Blood and The King's Buccaneer before this one, it was nice to see how closely tied it was to these that followed as well.
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Summary: Amazing conclusion to a great fantasy series
Review: A mind blowing conclusion to my favorite fantasy series. I must admit to an SF point of view, and that may color my evaluation of this book. Whatever the case, "A Darkness at Sethanon" satisfied me on a great many levels. I have just one problem with it: I want the entire series republished in a single hardcover volume, because my paperbacks are worn out from all the rereadings!
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Summary: Absolutly Brilliant
Review: The best way i can discribe it is that it was like a movie in my head, never boring, always making you want to read on, it is as Silverthorn and the Magician where, bloody brilliant...
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Summary: i loved this book
Review: this was a wonerful book. my favorite characters were tomas, pug, and jimmy the hand.
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Summary: An excellent non-stop saga with intense dramatic battles
Review: This book brings it all together- the previous three novels of the Riftwar Saga lead up to this last book. Plenty of action and descriptive scenes of mystical warfare. A must buy if you've read the first three!
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Summary: Though Simple & Flawed Feist Tale Continues To Engage
Review: This tale reminds me of individuals I have known that possessed any number of irritating habits, yet continued to retain my affection by nature of their simple and generous character. That's probably overstating the case here, but, despite Feist's tendancy towards stereotyping and simplistic narrative, I nonetheless find myself continuing to read the "Riftwar Saga." "A Darkness at Sethanon" possesses most of the flaws that have plagued the previous books: An event driven narrative that expends little time on characterization or descriptive detail, players that are stereotypical and more characteristic of cartoons than fiction, as well as a world that to a large degree dwells within the conventional. Further, Feist is starting to show evidence of predictability. Most of this has been noted, though more stridently, by previous detractors. However, unlike many of those, I felt this book to be the best so far in the series, and were it not for the chapters devoted to Pug and Tomas, as well as the pollyanna quality of the final chapter, I might have felt this tale deserving of a 4 star rating. Much of the story following Arutha and friends appeared to be rising above the level of the earlier tales, both in focus as well as the use of dramatic tension and an embryonic exploration through new characters beyond the often juvenile caricaturization that's dogged Feist from the beginning. Unfortunately these rudimentary advances were greatly undermined by the overblown magic and almost omnipotent powers possessed by Pug and Tomas in their portion of the tale, their bald rehash of the Grecian underworld, and the appearance of the ridiculous and incidental tigermen. What little credibility remained was decidedly discarded in the final chapter. Yet, after all my complaints, I find myself seduced into attempting the next book. There is a straightforward, uncomplicated element of fun to Feist's writing that is, for all it's faults, rather appealing. Perhaps, as was his implied intention in the first books, he has been successful in reaching a boyish response in me that I thought long put away and forgotten. In any event, these books have provided diversion for unreflected moments. However, all the 5 star ratings are preposterous!
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Summary: I did not like it
Review: I did not like it. That is all I need to say. I had read "Magician" years ago ,and I had worshipped it at the time, but after reading Robert Jordan, and Terry Brooks and countless other fantasy writers , this book was just a bore. The writer has just made a mistake common to amateurs, the good people are very brave, courageous and have great leaders, while the bad ones are just like chickens waiting to be deceived, and killed, and the only advantage they have is the numbers. I think to write more realistic he has to be objective
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Summary: This is one of the best books I have ever read.
Review: I have read this book I don't know how many times, and I don't know how many ways. Even if it's just a part or whole, all the details that make the story in the other three books surprise me every time. It really blew my mind that the valheru were behind everything for so long.
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Summary: feist rules baby
Review: this is the greatest book of all time, a thousand words couldn't even begin to describe this epic conclusion of the greatest saga ever. TOMAS is the man
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