Rating: 
Summary: Very Good Continuation of the Series
Review: A Darkness at Sethanon was a interesting book. The storyline follows Pug, Macros, Thomas, and others through a startling quest. I recommend this book to anyone who has the slightist interest in the series.
Rating:
Summary: Feist is the best fantasy author ever.
Review: Feist is the best fantasy author ever
Rating:
Summary: "A good book to read"
Review: The story was honestly pretty good. It was for the action fans, slow at first, but even then it wasn't too bad at all. My favorite charactors that i liked reading of were the magicians, Pug, Thomas and Macros the Black.(though there were more). You have a real feel for the charactors even if you didn't read the rest of the saga like I. It's a good book to read, and i recommend it for book essays or reports or just for fun.
Rating: 
Summary: Great book, but Pug and Tomas were too powerful
Review: The first three books were great, and so was Sethanon, except for the problem of Pug and Tomas becoming too powerful. I don't know how many lines there are in there containing the words "Tomas (or Pug) quickly dispatched the enemy." All either of them have to do in any event is snap their fingers or - in extreme cases - wave their hands. This was all counterpointed by the bits taking place back on Midkemia with Jimmy. (I've always been a fan of Jimmy.)
Rating: 
Summary: Oh dear...
Review: This is definitely the worst book in the riftwar saga. That doesn't mean the book is particularly bad, it just left me disappointed after how good the other books were (at least they get better after this!)... I hated the corridor in the stars, and the amount of power Pug had - truly terrible. I hated that some of the more "dodgy" characters in the previous books were turned into heroes. But!... the writing is fluid, and there are moments of true brilliance. If you've read the other books, you KNOW you have to read this one.
Rating:
Summary: Realistic fantasy?
Review: My two favorite fantasy series are Dragonlance and Riftwar. (I think Riftwar is better, but I read Dragonlance first, so that makes them tie in my mind.) Riftwar is so great because it accomplishes two things that I haven't encountered in other fantasy series (Xanth, Tolkien): 1. Its characters include all the major fantasy types (wizards, warriors, thieves, sages, clerics, etc.) without stripping them of their personality. Most D&D-derived books have trouble justifying characters of different "class" because classes make more sense from a game-designer's point of view than from an author's or reader's. Feist is able to fit his characters into the class framework without making them less as characters, and I have a feeling that's very difficult. 2. It's realistic, in that it's the best balance I've seen between outright heroic fantasy (Tolkien, Dragonlance) and the actual medieval European milieu. There have been some series devoted to depicting the latter, but they're more historical fiction than fantasy; Feist has been the only author I know of who has been able to integrate these two extremes.Now that I've babbled about the series, where does Sethanon fit in? Out of the original four books of the series, it ties for first with "Magician: Master." (Magician: Apprentice is next and Silverthorn takes the rear.)
Rating:
Summary: A stunning finale to a great series.
Review: A former roleplayer, Raymond E. Feist has taken the best concepts from that field and adapted them to fantasy writing in a way I have never since seen repeated. His depictions of fabulous creatures and magic as well as the multiverse show a man of incredible imaginative power. "A Darkness at Sethanon" goes well beyond the expected (assuming you have read, say, Silverthorn) without disillusioning readers with Feist's choices concerning the flow of events. One could expect better as far as character sculpturing is concerned, but still this is a book you will want to read again and again. PS. Supposing you are fed up with Feist's feats of high fantasy, switch to Guy Gavriel Kay for detoxination.
Rating:
Summary: Awe-inspiring tale!
Review: It has been far too long since I have read this book. Being addited to Feist, I haven't had much time to do anything but read. The basic plot of A Darkness at Sethanon has been sufficiently explained in other reviews, so I won't go into it. I have reccommended all of Feist's books to people who told me that they downright hated fantasy novels. That pretty much says it all.
Rating:
Summary: Magnificent epic!!
Review: I read this a few years ago and later forgot about it. The other day I saw it at the public library. Needless to say that I reread the entire saga! This work is eclipsed only by Lord of the rings. If you like Tolkien and Piers Anthony then you should love this saga!!
Rating:
Summary: Great series, lousy end
Review: The first three were great, no wait, they were better than great. It's the best thing I've ever read. Then came A darkness at sethanon (sigh). It has too much crazy magic in it. Don't get me wrong everybody should read this saga.
|
