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2nd book of the Riftwar saga.
Bought because of the long trip home from San Diego.
Not bad. Not particularly good. Better than the first, I'd say, but still superficial, and the "Game" that sounded so promising, has hardly been touched and might not be that interesting at all.
[actually, I haven't finished it, and small chance I will anytime soon. Tag as finished to get rid of it.]
Fantasy. World with humans, elves, dwarves. Moredhil (evil elves). Main character: Pug, orphan, now Magician's apprentice (gee!) and his friend Tomas.
Men arrive, strange men on a strange ship. Only to fight. Parallel worlds. Invasion of the evil, strong men.
Ends with a strange fight: evil men attacking in the night, falling back every morning, seemingly without sense. Then suddenly they fall back..
And only then, at the very last pages, the hint of a larger story (a Game, politics, in the parallel world of which we know yet nothing) takes shape.
Not bad, but, particularly in the beginning, very very predictable. Written okayish, but I kept thinking and comparing with Robin Hobb, at not in favour of Feist.
Might read the next volumes, but only when I want something easy to read.
