Aside from that, I did continue to enjoy the story and the characters very much. I’ll discuss it a bit more in the spoiler tags at the end of my review. Fortunately the relationships didn’t play a very large role in the story so they never reached the point of annoying me, although I did find one of the relationships uncomfortable to read about. There are definitely some great moments though, especially toward the end! Several characters were paired off, and it got a bit insta-lovey at times. I enjoyed this nearly as much as Magician: Apprentice, but it did have a bit less of an ensemble feel with some characters going off in different directions for most of the book, so it lacked some of the camaraderie that I had enjoyed in the first book.
Although there are two more books in this subseries, this one finishes the main storylines that were begun with Magician: Apprentice and comes to a satisfying conclusion. Feist’s Riftwar Cycle, the first subseries in the longer Riftwar Saga. Magician: Master is the second book in Raymond E. I sincerely hope to call this one of my absolute favorite fantasy series.
:) I cannot WAIT to dig into all the rest. Unforgettable characters, immense battle, tactics, strategy, and mindblowing magic at all the very best instances.
Harrowing sailing, intrigue and politics in cities, and 9 years of a long, long war with the peoples across the rift. What a change from his past life! But while this is all fondly remembered from before, what becomes a real treat for me is life back at home. Pug gets kidnapped in the previous book and sent to an alternate world across a rift in space and time, spends years as a slave, gets discovered by the powerful mages there as one of their own, gets trained and indoctrinated.
#Raymond e feist magician series series
:)Īs a matter of fact, now that I've had a lot of time to read and process a very large assortment of fantasy novels both epic and derivative and sometimes both, I can confidently say that this may very well be as good as the WoT series that I have been known to put so much store by. When the peace of the Kingdom is destroyed as mysterious invaders swarm the land, Pug and Tomas are swept up in a conflict that will change their lives forever.I'm SO happy to realize that my original love of these books in my youth remains as bright in my middle age. But as he stands alone and in shame in the middle of the great courtyard, Kulgan, the Duke’s court magician choses Pug. When a ceremony takes place in which Pug and his peers will be chosen for the different apprenticeships, Pug suffers the ultimate humiliation when he is the only one not chosen by any master. It tells the tale of orphan boy Pug, who spent his childhood dreaming of becoming a warrior like his friend Tomas, but lacks the physical strength and skills at arms.
Not too dissimilar from the much loved Watersones back in the UK, Dymocks has an incredible array of books under every genre imaginable, and a bookseller’s top 100 which featured Raymond E Feist’s Magician – one of the last five books I had left to read.įirst published in 1982, Magician is the first book of the Riftwar Saga, set in the imagined world of Midkemia. However, when I stopped by recently to buy one of the final novels I have yet to read from the BBC Top 100 – they didn’t have any of the ones I needed in stock, and so I visited Dymocks – the city centre book shop down the road from where I work. Since moving to Sydney, I buy most of my books from Gertrude & Alice – a gorgeous bookstore by Bondi beach whose food menu is as appetising as its book selection.
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