Raymond E. Feist, Author Avon Books $24 (376p) ISBN 978-0-380-97715-4
Based on the award-winning Betrayal at Krondor computer game, this launch of a new series set in Feist's popular Riftwar world (Magician, etc.) lacks originality but offers plenty of action and enough familiar and new characters to keep loyal fans...
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Raymond E. Feist. Harper Voyager, $29.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-146845-2
The opening volume of Feist’s Firemane epic fantasy series, his first series launch since he began the Riftwar Saga with 1982’s Magician, is not terribly impressive. The parallel story lines follow predictable paths, and the prologue is the book’s...
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Raymond E. Feist. Harper Voyager, $29.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-06-146843-8
Readers who have experienced all, or most of the preceding 29 books in Feist's best-selling epic fantasy series, will be eager to find how it all ends. But even those who have kept up religiously with the characters and plot may find the resolution—w
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Raymond E. Feist, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-12409-0
A usual problem with sequels--that they don't measure up to the original--applies to this follow-up to Shadow of a Dark Queen, which also suffers from unexpectedly stodgy prose and a paucity of action. Focusing on Rupert Avery's rise to power and...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (382p) ISBN 978-0-688-12408-3
A dark and alien peril casts an lengthening shadow over Midkemia as another Riftworld saga begins almost a generation after the events in The King's Buccaneer . Erik von Darkmoor, bastard son of the local baron, flees to the city of Krondor after...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-385-23624-9
This welcome continuation of The Riftwar Saga picks up 20 years after A Darkness of Sethanon leaves off. In part a coming-of-age story, it tells of Borric and Erland, twin sons of the Prince of Krondor. Carelessly lighthearted, they soon learn the...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-385-23623-2
Feist, author of the popular Magician fantasy trilogy, turns to the horror genre in this slick, only partially successful novel of a very modern family newly settled into a house on the edge of an enchanted woods. Each member of the familyretired...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (425p) ISBN 978-0-385-19215-6
The concluding volume of Feist's ""Rift-war'' trilogy opens with the Kingdom of the Isles enjoying a deceptive peace. Under cover of the Festival of Presentation, however, the dreaded Nighthawks come out of hiding in the warrens and sewers of Fish...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author Eos $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-97800-7
Book Three of the Riftwar Legacy gets off to a fast start, as pirates attack the ship Ishap's Dawn in order to steal the Tear of the Gods, a sacred magical gem being transported in the ship's hold. Bestseller Feist's latest action-adventure fantasy...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author Eos $25 (374p) ISBN 978-0-380-97707-9
Squire James, formerly known to the Guild of Thieves as Jimmy the Hand, is looking forward to some rest when he returns home from battle against the Morhedel and the Tsurani. But Prince Arutha gives him a new assignment: James must learn the cause...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author . Eos $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-97708-6
Bestseller Feist (Prince of the Blood) does an impressive job of developing numerous characters and elaborate social structures while holding true to established history in this fantasy page-turner set in Midkemia, the backdrop for his venerable...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author Doubleday Books $22 (465p) ISBN 978-0-385-23625-6
Feist's fifth book in the Riftwar series, begun in 1982 with Magician , is a lively coming-of-age adventure. Prince Nicholas, youngest son of the prince of Krondor, becomes a man and a leader while foiling ancient enemies of his people and his house.
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Raymond E. Feist, Author Avon Books $24 (436p) ISBN 978-0-380-97473-3
Conspiracies and treachery beset the realm of the Demons in this third volume (after Rise of a Merchant Prince) of Feist's immensely popular Serpentwar Saga. Pug the magician and his allies, including the sorcerer Macros, have to cross a good part...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author . Eos $26.99 (302p) ISBN 978-0-06-146837-7
Another day, another demon war. It's all child's play for Feist's heroic Conclave of Shadows in this follow-up to 2009's Rides a Dread Legion
, which continues the popular Midkemia series begun in the '80s. Villainous...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author . Eos $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-079280-0
Feist's competent but uninventive second installment to his Darkwar Saga (after 2006's Flight of the Nighthawks
) follows Pug the wizard and his grandsons—Jommy, Tad and Zane, now of military age—on their various magic-enhanced...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author . Eos $25.95 (347p) ISBN 978-0-06-079278-7
This first of a new fantasy trilogy from bestseller Feist (Exile's Return
) reintroduces a now ancient but well-preserved Pug (the juvenile hero of Magician
) plus numerous generic situations, not the least of which is the return of Pug's...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author . Eos $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-076455-5
Despite some slow patches and stilted dialogue, the third book in bestseller Feist's Conclave of Shadows fantasy series is a better read than its two predecessors (2003's Talon of the Silver Hawk
and 2004's King of Foxes
), thanks to...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author . Eos $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-97709-3
After destroying the vicious mercenary Raven and partially avenging his people wiped out in 2003's Talon of the Hawk
, Tal Hawkins, last of the Orosini, sets his sights on the person who ordered the massacre, Kaspar, Duke of Olasko, in...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author, Joel Rosenberg, Author Eos $14.99 (324p) ISBN 978-0-06-079285-5
This second cowritten installment of Legends of the Riftwar (after Feist's 2006 collaboration with William R. Forstchen, Honored Enemy) finds Rosenberg's engaging mercenary trio, Durine, Kethol and Pirojil, drafted to escort the bed-hopping Lady...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author, S. M. Stirling, Author Eos $13.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-079294-7
Feist and Stirling bring humor and pathos to 13-year-old Jimmy the Hand's third escapade (after 2002's Murder in La Mut). Krondor's ever-resourceful boy thief, not content with helping Princess Anita and Prince Arutha make a seaward escape from the...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author, Janny Wurts, With Doubleday Books $20 (613p) ISBN 978-0-385-24719-1
The trilogy begun with Daughter of the Empire is here brought to a strong conclusion. Lady Mara of the Acoma clan, named Servant of the Empire by Ichindar, Emperor of the Tsuranuanni, whom she has raised from figurehead to true ruler, feels safe...
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Raymond E. Feist, Author, Janny Wurts, With Doubleday Books $17.95 (394p) ISBN 978-0-385-23393-4
Feist, author of the Riftwar Trilogy, and Wurts, whose fantasy novels include Sorcerer's Legacy and Stormwarden, have combined their skills to produce this absorbing saga. Mara is taking her final religious vows when a messenger interrupts the...
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