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Summary: Very hard going
Review: The endless descriptions of minor battle after minor battle that dominated much of this book left me nodding off. The book finally came along as Tomas, Pug, Miranda and others finally tackled the creatures of the nameless one but all too late. Feist is a limited writer at best, unfortunately this is definatley not one of his best works.
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Summary: The series as a whole....DEPRESSING
Review: I have to admit...I didn't want to give up on him. Feist, that is. I kept expecting this series to ignite and capture my interest as much as the Riftwar did. It never happened. I think Fiest concentrates on building the "Grand Adventure" and leaves out a lot of the vital details with this series (ie, Character development, relationships, PLOT, etc). He's a Master at developing a storyline but his abilities lack substantially when it comes to fleshing these concepts out. I think w/ each new book Feist sets out trying to make it bigger than the last. While concentrating on the Big Picture, the little things slip...two examples from the last book come to mind: 1) I have the same mental picture of Dash as I had of Jimmy the Hand, and 2) I thought Feist had an excellent opportunity w/ the Undead theme. But then he wraps up that confrontation in about two chapters. It shows a lack of originality and effort on his part...I can just hear him, "Forget making characters & situations unique and let me get on with this great idea for a story I have!!" Oh well...maybe I'll check back in w/ Feist in a couple of years and see what he has to offer. Hopefully some inspiration will creep back into his stories.
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Summary: Feist is the best fantasy author ever.
Review: Feist is the best fantasy author ever
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Summary: Please, no more books of "Midkemian Boredom"!
Review: I'm currently reading Faerie Tale, which our local library has just bought, and I'm really enjoying that novel, while the "Serpent War Silliness Series" is boring and confusing me.Here's an idea: Why doesn't Feist liscense (did I spell that right?) out his world of Midkemia to some some young and eager fantasy writer, who could perhaps show a little more enthusiasm and creativity for this potentially great fantasy world?
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Summary: This book was a great end to the serpent war series
Review: Having read all of Fiests Midkemia books, i thought that this book was a great addition to the series and i thoroughly enjoyed the entire book. The ending, i believe, was magnificent and unexpected.
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Summary: The Weakest Book of the Series.
Review: This conclusion to the series was a big big disappointment for me. The plot was "tired", the Characters lacklustre and the villians were weak or non-existent. I think a better conclusion in Rage of a Demon King and let the series end there would have been better. I read this book hoping to be gripped by the usual twists and turns in the plot which is the hallmark of this great and talented author. What did we get? Not a lot. Nakor has great potential for a spin off series. he is a mysterious character and his life prior to his appearance in the Riftwar saga would I'm sure be of great interest to readers. If you compare this novel to the heavy weight "Empire" series which you just could'nt put down then it was very lightweight indeed. I do hope The author has'nt "lost it" because he can tell a riviting good yarn and of all the Fantasy writers I consider him to be one of the most talented.
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Summary: Lacks heart, feels like it was written in a hurry
Review: Most the characters in this novel were merely there because they had to be. The scene-switching was *very* annoying, and I hope Feist doesn't make a habit of it: a potentially-good scene starts to pick up a bit, but it just ends and another scene begins. I also agree with a previous post about all the annoying references to the "Tear of the Gods" (as featured in the computer game "Return to Krondor") and also to Betrayal in Krondor (and also a loose novelization of the game BASED on these novels...). These events seem to be important to the world of Midkemia but were barely mentioned in other novels. Now Feist would probably be obligated to write another series based on Return to Krondor. *sigh*. The good things in this novel are: the Mockers, Captain Subai and the Pathfinders, and Pug finally becoming the Black Sorcerer. I was also sad to read about Martin Longbow's passing. (now there's a character that I really got into..) That scene with the final villains was disappointed to say the least. This novel as a whole was disappointing.
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Summary: Shards of a once-decent series
Review: This book was fairly entertaining as a bit of fluff before G. Martin's book comes out in paperback. It really wasn't nearly as good as the original riftwar series or the Kelewan series. Why is it that all the problems in the world can be solved by Pug & Friends when they simply feel like it? How boring. When Arutha died, I yawned. Jimmy & Dash - I couldn't tell them apart. All the characters seem like one-dimensional versions of their earlier selves or of their grandparents. Feist wrote a great series of books, this series isn't it. The whole idea of the "nameless one" and attendant sidekicks seems like scraping the bottom of the barrel to me. Looking for a conflict? Invent some "Ultimate Evil" in each new book, just to learn in the next installment that now you've got the real thing. Terry Brooks perfected this weak practice with the Shannara series, and the Highlander movies brought it to the screen. In short, this series lacked originality, it was the same old thing with a new paint job. Unfortunately, changing the names of the folks involved and inventing cardboard bad guys doesn't cut it. Move on to a new world, Ray, or at least let Pug die in peace.
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Summary: SOABC was good but lost focus on the main issue.
Review: Marcus the Black has definitely been the main character in all of the books based on Midikima. The fact that he always returns in the end to help the main characters only adds credance to this. Take for example ROADK (Rage Of A Demon King) He features as the hero in this book helping Pug destroy the demons by which he in turn is also destroyed by. This is where I come to my main point. Marcus was supposed to be replacing Sarg as the God of Magic and one could say he did so briefly to destroy the demon king, however his death leaves a vacuum which Pug was raised to fill, as the next God of magic. His rejection to do this in my opinion is a bad plot twist as he was supposed to re-establish the greater path of magic on Midekema and to do this a 'Sarg' was required. The first Novel Magician sets Pug up as a leading magician for the future and his detiny as a god. As Marcus himself infered as he says that he will be his preducessor. Therefor when he establishes his cult of people working against Nalar(?) he abandons his destiny. If he became Sarg it is possible that the gods would be powerfull enough to cmplete seal Nalar away, instaed of only pashaly in the void. Anyway the book is fair but it is a let down when compared to his others. A good fantasy serires at the moment is 'A Song Of Ice And Fire' by George R R Martin.
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Summary: I have read alot of Feist books, and ...
Review: (!ACHTUNG!!SPOILER WARNING!, !ACHTUNG!) I have read all his fantasy books, except faerie tale and Krondor: A betrayal. And I thinks this last book in the pretty mediocre serie the serpent war saga is pretty silly...if not damn right boring... 1.Why r all the battles won so easily? 2.Why is the self-appointed king of the bitter sea only in about 5-20 pages in the book? I think that the serpent war saga started pretty good with the first book, (SOADQ) but later books was more boring than the other....with one exception...the weakest book wihtout a doubt is Rise of a merchant prince...What was Mr. Feist thinking about when he wrote it??? It's not fantasy, its CRAP, if you ask me,..at least rage of a demon king was a little moore than readable....but this last book was so boring and silly ending with the FOUR mighty caharachters who ended the battle/war in a couple of pages...and besides i think the whole concept with the namless one sux bigtime...What's rong with the Dragon lords in the first series...they are reduced 2 nothing in the later books.... But if you have read the other books, read this 2...maybe you'll enyoy it...but I'm sceptic... Now when I'm done critizising Feist I can say that I loved the riftwar saga, and The CRPG Betrayal at Krondor)....and that I 'm gonna read the riftwar legacy, (Krondor:the betrayal)
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