Interactions between the two peoples are like they literally just discovered each other four hours ago rather than four years. Second, the people of the Kingdom of the Isles understand ridiculously little about people they have supposedly been fighting, almost non-stop, for FOUR years. It felt like every encounter between the two armies had a mandatory 6 month pause following it. You’ll think “oh it must be the next or a few days later” and Feist goes “9 months later” and it doesn’t make any sense for what has supposedly happened in that time period. However, I had a problem with the slowness, specifically the four years the war has covered just in this book (so half of the original one volume), in that it makes literally no sense.įirst, the time jumps are weird. For most of the book I was not bothered by the pace. I went in to this book knowing that it and its squeal were originally one volume so I was expecting it to be rather slow because it’s only the first half. The overall execution of those ideas, though, was just okay. It is clearly heavily influenced by Lord of the Rings, but there were some original ideas involved.
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