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“I love Raymond E. Feist - picked up one of his books while browsing my used bookstore and was hooked! ”
Sarah B wrote this review 7 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“There is an aweful lot of 'retconning' in this book, mostly in directions that I don't prefer, but that's just me.”
Curtis H wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This book was phenomenally amazing! It has nail-biting suspense, great adventure, and is such a great read, that I could not put it down! (I can understand why it took the two previous books to set up this story!) There are a great many surprises in store for the reader, and I don't want to be a spoiler, so let's say Pug and his team do get to the TeKarana, and Bek is there with Nakor's guidance, but it doesn't play out like I thought it would. It's much, much better! The Dasati do invade Kelewan at a much greater rate than Pug anticipates. He is torn by those he will not be able to save. Even Leso Varen, whose madness makes me laugh out loud, comes to a surprise! The Darkwar Saga is a definite must read for any fantasy lover, and is a triumph for Feist!”
Jimmy W wrote this review Monday, September 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“As always another great book from Feist.”
Jeff W wrote this review Monday, September 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Excellent writing, excellent story, great characters. I love the world that Feist has created so much that I'm going back to the beginning to consume the entire collection”
Jonathan F wrote this review Friday, August 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
0 of 1 members found this review helpful“Everything's too easy.
Foppe wrote this review Thursday, July 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Lots of people die, and lots of them of course die heroically, but that's nothing new in Feist's world.
Leso Varen just keeps on going on and on, for no apparent reason other than that he's necessary in the end as a plot device. Nakor's final scenes and explanations are incoherent, apparently incomplete, and otherwise badly fleshed out, so as to make me wonder what exactly I was supposed to glean from reading 'his' final thoughts. Too little of the how and why surrounding the 'vessels' was explained compared to the number of casual allusions made.
Pug just keeps on going, even though he's constantly exhausted, while the chronology of the final 2 chapters is murky at best. Where is he getting the energy?
I've seen enough Sympathetic People die by now.
Too many paragraphs consist of "Magnus would in the future become more powerful than his pop&mom combined, but for now, and probably forever, he would implicitly trust daddy." or "miranda loved and trusted her hubby dearly (the implied slight misogyny makes me queasy.), but she was really frustrated/emotional".
The story is interesting, but by the time it's over there are so many holes that I have a very hard time being satisified by the outcomes, even though I really like the universe as a whole. Wherever there are numbers mentioned of the number of people that were involved, there seem to be inconsistencies, either within this one cycle, or between this cycle and the Serpentwar cycle (this book mentions 20-40k people, whereas the SWS mentions 200-400k).
Similarly, the population figures for the Dasati keep switching between millions, tens of millions and billions, and there is no real reason given for why the Dark One would want to not first eat billions of Dasati before continuing onwards to the next world, as he does at the end of this book (Apparently choosing to leave them alive for no apparent reason other than 'haste').
All in all, it struck me as badly redacted, and very intent on thrill-mongering through mentioning big figures. In stead of 2000 Great Ones (Riftwar saga), there apparently only are 400 by the time of this series (Why would there be fewer magicians if there is a bigger pool to draw from?), nobody is able to deduce beforehand whose body Varen might have possessed when he came to Kelewan, etc.
Too many of these kinds of questions remain, although the author seems to think that they've all been answered. Sure, you can play around with literal deus ex scenes, but too much is left unexplained for reasons other than "the gods won't tell you (the reader) everything".”“Feist is an amazing author with a grasp on his world that puts most fantasy authors to shame. This particular book manages to further the overarching story of Pug and it doesn't disapoint.”
Robert C wrote this review Monday, June 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Fairly decent plotline but Feist is getting a little formulaic where each trilogy seems to end just to start another one. A few twists but nothing special - quick read you don't need to think much about.”
Eric M wrote this review Thursday, June 11 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Finally we get some answers that we have been aching to know for a long time, like who Nakor is. I agree that you need to reed the previous parts of Feist, even the Servant of the Empire-series (what a shame about the Cho-ja species!). It makes a lot more sense if you have. ”
Ellinor wrote this review Monday, April 6 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This book was excellent. I've been reading Raymond E. Feist for a long time, and with the exception of his "Other Side of the Rift" trilogy (Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire, and Mistress of the Empire) Co-Authored with Janny Wurtz, this is the top of his game. I'm still continuously dissappointed at how under the radar his books have been since his his 2-3 year absence from the U.S. Fantasy market. He is a top notch fantasy author with a nice classic sword & Sorcery feel with a heavy touch of historic fiction style.
Jesse S wrote this review Thursday, October 30 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
This is the final book in the "Darkwar Saga" trilogy. We see everything come together (and its a lot: struggles on another dimension, the mobilization of an entire world against otherworldly invaders, frustration over your own destiny and how it differs from your loved ones',...etc), that has been building since the begining of the "Conclave of the Shadows" trilogy. Its heroic, tragic,...nothing short of epic. I can't go into too much here or I'd give it away. Suffice it to say, this is worth a read. Though you need to start at least with the "Conclave of the Shadows" triology (though treat yourself and start at the begining with "Magician: Apprentice"), you won't regret it.”
