Mortification Scale: 3 Tomato Faces
- 1 for SciFi/Fantasy
- 2nd for embarrassing cover
- 3rd for being one of Feist's recent, not as good work
- For anyone who loved his earlier work, you just have to keep reading. It's like a soap opera. More Pug!
- Love the reintroduction of Macros the Black
Something is wrong in Midkemia. I know, this is shocking news for those of us long used to a series of greater and greater crises in Midkemia. Remember back when the Tsurani were going to end life as we knew it? Then, the moredhel, followed by the Pantathians and the Saur. Then there was the Nameless One. Now, we've got beings from another realm of reality. Not just otherworldly beings, but beings from the first hell, the Dasati, are the current threat facing Pug & Pals on Midkemia and Kelewan.
To find out more about the new threat, Pug, Nakor, Magnus & Ralan Bek all travel to the Dasati realm in search of answers. This realm is a collection of 12 worlds ruled by a culture so obsessed with death that they hunt down and kill their own children. They are violent and crazed and find nothing funnier than someone else's pain and death. Interesting. It's a nice twist, as far as I know, this is an original fantasy culture. This book ends with the 4 humans meeting a reincarnated Macros the Black. Hmm. During this time, there has also been 3 other main plotlines running through the book, including Miranda on Kelewan searching for a mad magician; the 3 boys off at school in Roldem; and the story of a Dasati warrior just emerged from the Hiding -all children must hide until puberty, otherwise any male would kill them.
Overall, this is not anywhere close to as good as his original 5 or so books, plus the 3 Kelewan books (Daughter, Servant, & Mistress of the Empire). However, it's better than nothing, and does drag out my immersion in the storyline. I'd recommend it to fans, but would hesitate to recommend it to anyone new to Feist. I think that they'd be lost.
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