Magician's End: Book Three of the Chaoswar Saga Author: Raymond E. Feist | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BS8SVGS | Format: PDF
Magician's End: Book Three of the Chaoswar Saga Description
Three decades . . . Five Riftwars . . . One magnificent saga: From New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist comes Magician's End, the final book in the epic Riftwar Cycle.
Thirty years ago, Feist's first novel, Magician, introduced us to an orphan boy named Pug, who rises from slavery to become a Master Magician, and to Midkemia and the Riftwar, an epic series of battles between Good and Evil that have scarred Pug's world for generations.
After twenty-nine books, Feist delivers the crowning achievement of his renowned bestselling career: Magician's End, the final chapter in The Chaos Wars, the climax of his extraordinary Riftwar Cycle.
Pug, now the greatest magician of all time, must risk everything he has fought for and everything he cherishes in the hope of destroying an evil enemy once and for all. But to achieve peace and save untold millions of lives, he will have to pay the ultimate price.
- File Size: 905 KB
- Print Length: 657 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0007264798
- Publisher: Harper Voyager (May 14, 2013)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BS8SVGS
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,756 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
I enjoyed Magician's End, and, unlike many books, it left me with a lingering melancholy, and satisfaction born from saying goodbye to a series that has been with me for most of my life. It is absolutely, obviously worth purchasing and reading if you have been following the series. However I am going to try to avoid the nostalgia trap that a lot of the 5-star reviews are falling into and give the book a modest, critical review.
First a thought to editing, which has been a problem in the last few books of the series. There are portions of the book where the author seems to repeat himself, saying much the same thing again in a few paragraphs as though for the first time. Now I can't be sure that this is not intentional repetition, but either way it seems like the book would have benefited from a tighter editing process.
As with the books immediately preceding it, Magician's End is essentially two different stories that don't touch each other closely enough. While the political B-plot is highly predictable, and it could be argued that the new generation of conDoin characters are a bit shallow and repetitive, it does add something worthwhile to the final chapters of the book. Magician's End does mirror Magician in many respects, and in that regard the new conDoins do their job, remind you of the conDoins who came before, and allow you to imagine what the Kingdom's future might be.
Now I reach two problems with this part of the story. One - While I do feel that the end of the political B-plot was a worthwhile addition to a story intended to bookend the original Magician, the process of getting there, the civil war story, is not compelling. The battles themselves are relatively petty and you could be forgiven for skimming them.
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