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And Roo's odd segue to go and deal with Sylvia and Duncan - to utter miscreants from RoaMP - is so weird. It's almost jabbed in amongst the rest of the narrative as an afterthought. "Oh, I'd better deal with those people..." Instead of having their fall be the result of some crescendo of intrigue and subterfuge, Roo just stumbles upon them while he's trying to flee the fallen Krondor. It's almost absurd, and certainly is very far away from the satisfied feeling one should get when horrid characters like Sylvia and her father get their comeuppance. When the final conflict is joined, reptile will stand against man and magician against demon; and those who battle for good must be victorious… or all is doomed. Was het vorige boek De macht van een koopmansprins voor mij niet echt een boek uit het fantasy-genre, dit boek duidelijk wel. Goed verhaal, met plotwendingen, magie, epische veldslagen en romantiek. The below spoiler is possibly a spoiler for the entire larger series, but it’s only speculation based on content in this book and the title of the final book.
Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9971 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000261 Openlibrary_edition As the Emerald Queen’s shadow lengthens once more across the land of the Midkemia, her forces stand ready to launch a devastating invasion. But come the battle’s dawn, the magician Pug, and his life-long friend Tomas, will discover that something far worse than the Queen’s sorcery is afoot. Swords, bows, wits and courage will no longer be enough to defeat the descending plague.The whole of the magnificent Riftwar Cycle by bestselling author Raymond E. Feist, master of magic and adventure, now available in ebook Duke James and Roo arrange a deal with the Quegans, which ultimately resulted in the Quegans believing that a treasure fleet would be coming their way. Six hundred ships of the Emerald Queen herald the start of the invasion. Pug is persuaded by Miranda to destroy the fleet, however Pug fails to do so. The fleet was magically protected and Pug almost died after his own fireball turned on him. It is also revealed that the Emerald Queen was in fact a demon in disguise. He heals in Elvandar for a couple of months. Tot nog toe het beste boek uit deze reeks, niet alleen omdat de oorlog begint en het meer actie heeft, maar vooral omdat het niet langer op Ru is gericht. Dit verhaal focust zich op Erik en het gevecht en op de magiërs Puc, Macros, Miranda en Nakur die proberen uit te vinden hoe ze de wereld kunnen redden. And then it ends. Calis...does something. I'm still not sure what. You have your a-typical end of level baddie battle, oh and a cheesy moment when Tomas inexplicably lets out some completely inappropriate battle cry because he pulled his sword out of the lifestone... Miranda strumpets around with Calis, confusing the poor...poor...what IS Calis again? Anyway, there are mixed signals, definitely! bah! Look, there's lots to enjoy in fits and starts through Rage, but it's far from Feist's best work. In returning to his complete works, I worry that I am coming to realise that his earlier books just weren't as good as I remember. The middle two books here could have been combined to one, a lot of the needless guff edited out, and a very strong book may just have been the result. Instead what we get is the literary equivalent of trying to arrange four food items on a dinner plate: there's nothing wrong with the sum of the parts, but it's just never going to be right. (Seriously, try it. You can't make even numbered food items look good on a plate!)
Exciting battles with nicely detailed handling of the gradual loss of ground, hard choices to destroy cities and towns as the retreat became inevitable. Obvious flaws were the demise of James and Pug's children. The only point I could see in it was the melodrama, which I dislike in any book. And of course the demon boss battle. Really? All it took was a bit of sea water? That could have been done so much sooner – plot hole alert! This one was a little uneven for me. The story focuses on a variety of characters instead of focusing primarily on one. I enjoyed the ensemble feel and I was interested in all the characters, but some sections were more interesting to read than others. It wasn’t always the same characters I was the most interested in; sometimes I was bored and interested by different sections about the same sets of characters. I did really like how some major plot threads were resolved or at least significantly advanced, not just from this subseries but from the larger story. A foul and terrible thing has escaped a devoured world to feed on one consumed by chaos; an insatiable nightmare creature which seeks to own and corrupt the source of life itself.I liked the demons, the descriptions of their society and political wrangling. I would have liked more.
Annoying that Miranda decides she regrets not having children "the fist time round". I could go on a rant about how people who choose not to have children are depicted in fiction. I'm not going to do so. This is just another example, and it's just another example of Feist's tendency to have his female characters' primary purpose to be love interests and baby factories. There’s an ominous warning to Pug in this book regarding what would happen if he chose to live his own life versus accepting godhood: ”…you shall know the loss of those you love, the pain of thousands, and the sting of bitter failure at the end of your life.”. Wow! This book has it all! Magicians, demons, serpent-people, elves, Dragon Lords, dwarves, alternate dimensions, magical portals, romance, deception, revenge, sea battles, mountain battles, battles of wit, fire oil, catapults, flaming moats, political intrigue, and even evil cannibals! The Emerald Queen's army is almost upon Midkemia and the army is staging. Erik Von Darkmoor is sergeant-major of the King's armies and Rupert is almost single-handedly financing the war. The Emerald Queen and her army are making for the Lifestone, a magical source of power capable of destroying worlds. Vast preparations are being made in Krondor, the anticipated point of invasion by the Emerald Queen's army, and all of Midkemia's allies - as well as some enemies - are being called upon to help. Rage of a Demon King is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist, the third book in his Serpentwar Saga and the eleventh book of his Riftwar cycle. It was published in 1997 in the United States by Avon Books and the United Kingdom by HarperCollins. At the opening of the novel Erik Von Darkmoor is helping to train soldiers for The Kingdom's armies while Rupert, at the height of his trading success, is coerced into financing the war. Meanwhile the forces of the Emerald Queen are approaching Krondor, and it is discovered her target is the "Lifestone", the legendary device discovered by Pug and his cohorts in A Darkness at Sethanon.
The third instalment in the Serpentwar Saga is something of an amalgam of the previous two books. Rage of a Demon King's chief focus is on the war effort between the Kingdom and the vast, invading army of the Emerald Queen. Feist handles the drawn-out conflict effectively, with soldier wunderkind Erik von Darkmoor appearing a more rounded protagonist than he was in Shadow of a Dark Queen. His merchant friend Roo Avery, whose wiley opportunism made for a superb, imaginative and different kind of read in Rise of a Merchant Prince, is relegated to more of a bit-part role, which is a shame. Riftwar alumni Pug and Tomas have doubtless faced more inventive perils than those on show here, but their sections remain compelling, even if at times the debates as to the forces at play on Midkemia and the universe in general hint at greater conclusions than they reach. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-05-05 00:23:22 Boxid IA40098819 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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