Rating: 
Summary: Not as bad as everyone here says
Review: Yes, this book and series was not up to the very high standards Feist set for himself with the Riftwar books. Tough to do. Too many important characters not fleshed out, too many throwaways given too much time. I agree that this is not his best work.Pug is off getting laid while people die. Eric fighting a war that we all know will be over the second the Gods duke it out. Petty politics distracting from the important issues. Main characters dying left and right with little impact on the story line. What unltimately leaves me feeling good about how this wrapped up is that these 'problems' are not unlike how life is. Main characters DO die with little impact. Sometimes life has to go on without blinking. Leaders DO get laid while people die. Petty politics DO distract from real issues. Gods (those in power) do sit around, let people die, then sweep in at the last minute with the killing blow. What I love about Feist, and why I will keep buying his novels is because he brings a bit of life into a genre that revolves around the impossible. Science Fiction is all about the improbable, the impossible, the non-real. Dragons do NOT exist. And in Midkemia, the heroes sometimes don't act the way they should. I like that. My heroes are the same. For those that were dissapointed, well...they'll be hard pressed to find an author in this genre that will deliver a better product. I enjoyed this book. I will read the next.
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