[MrWall]

I can honestly say that I hated it.

usually Feist is so good at characterisation. Arthua, Jimmy, Nakor, Erik, Roo, Trask... all had been great

But not now. Magnus is a cardboard cut out of any powerful mage in any series (and if i see that 'he will outstrip pug and miranda one day' one more bloody time i will scream). Miranda has gone from being a powerful, intelligent, strong minded individual to a petulant brat. We have a bunch of Jimmy wannabes running around and then, to add insult to injury, he managed to make Nakor seem 2 dimensional.

The inconsitancies grate as well. All the ones mentioned above, plus.... what the hell were the Minwabi still doing alive? they'd been wiped out refusing Mara's offer to let them live as I remember it. Was Feist rushed by the publishers? does he not keep notes? do teh editors bother to read what gets sent?

NAd the worst, worst, worst thing as far as I am concerned is that ending. Feist had, at the start, a believeable magic system. Since then he has expanded upon it and at times pushed the boundaries, sometimes too much. But now he has gone to far. Pug, who had been tired from creating just 7 normal rifts, is then able to create one to send a large section of the moon crashing into the planet, destroying it completely. Well.... rather a stretch that one. And why didnt he just do that on the Dasatii planet anyway?

Hell if he can do that much why didnt he just create a huge rift well before to alloow people to escape through. One a few miles wide would have given the tsuaranii a much better chance to escape.

Too much power, not enough thought in this book for me.