This is a review that hurts me more than a little to write.See, I've been reading Raymond E. Feist novels since I was a kid--literally since I was in my early teens. I've always been a fan and own all the books (some I have multiple copies of).But with this addition to the series, I started readi...
The entire book is not much more than a glorified, over-extended prologue, which becomes rather frustrating after a while. I was also annoyed by how the Token Female, after being built up as badass for three hundred pages, is in the last few chapters reduced to the status of 'Jilted, Vulnerable a...
The problem with this set I think is that it relies too heavily on what happened in the previous series. Why bother giving a character an exciting new back story when you can simply say hey remember that thing that happened in this other book? Well here's a guy now. Do that enough and you rob us...
I love Raymond Feist. At the same time, I find his later books regularly peppered with continuity errors (was the the elf or the dwarf talking? Who was it getting punched that time?), and large sections of seat-of-the pants writing that belongs in a first draft. Pug and his crew are supposed to b...