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Lackluster Ending, May 6 2004

Spoiler Alert:

This book had many of the problem of the one proceeding it: characters still act a little immature, it's boring at parts, and too much silliness. (I'll never be able to get around Harkle Harpell, I don't care what happens.) Also, the superhero element took its toll as well. At the final battle, everyone was wounded in some way, but the wounds are not mentioned after the fact. All I really wanted was maybe a phrase mentioning someone favoring their right leg, or something like that, but we don't even get that much. This issue isn't exclusive to this book, either. How Drizzt got his panther back at the end was a bit far-fetched too. Also, Kierstaad's feat of retrieving… Read more

Mediocre, May 1 2004

3.5 stars

There's nothing really spectacular about his book. The main problem is that it takes too long to rev up. When you write a book that's only 300 pages, you have to fill it with action from the start to finish to make it good. Salvatore spent a good deal of pages as exposition. I don't mind the amount of exposition, as long as there's enough action for the rest of the story. Obviously, in a book this short, that can't happen. (I have noticed that down the line the books are getting progressively longer, and this pleases me.) This book should be called Attack of Darkness, instead of Siege, because that's what is. It was very entertaining when it happened, but the rest of the… Read more

Good Introductory Book, April 23 2004

I'll admit for the last couple of years I haven't quite known what to think about Feist. He was the first author of adult fiction that I started reading. Since then, I have read many authors, including Goodkind, Martin, Jordan, Hobb, King, Friedman, Brooks, Salvatore, Clavell, and Williams. The last thing I had read by Feist was Tear of the Gods nearly two years ago, and I found it mediocre. Then, not too long long ago, I read The Wood Boy, a short story in Legends, and it was very bland. I began to question Feist's skill as an author. Had he just gone bad over the last couple of years due to the divorce, or, had I simply been exposed to a better standard by those other authors, and… Read more