I’m an avid Stephen King fan, and I’ve rarely read much else. My wife has been reading some fantasy books, and I thought I’d try something new. This book was recommended to me by a friend, and so I bought and read as an ebook. Overall, I thought it was a good story with a good ending that has me excited to move to the next book. Some portions of the book were a little harder to get through, but I wonder if that was just me moving to a new author/genre. I thought the development for the main characters was pretty good, and there are a lot of details that I expected to be revealed as important, but didn’t get by the end of this one. Assuming those will be coming in the upcoming books. I’m giving it 4 stars, because I didn’t finish it with a feeling of “WOW”. We’ll see what the next book brings.

Great beginning and then just another nonsensical string of meaningless battles and shallow cliched character development.

Fantastic book! I have never read any of Raymond’s books before and happened to buy this one through a book bub deal notification. I could not put this book down and upon finishing it - bought 3 more of Raymond’s books. I am a fan!!!!

It’s been thirty years since the first time I read this book and the saga. Only Tolkien has written a greater story. I am enjoying my time reading again, it’s like spending time with an old friend.

Really enjoyed the read, but there were times when the story became repetitive. Sometimes the characters lacked depth; they will occasionally draw obvious conclusions without giving the reader to find their own through the decisions the characters make. The pacing is realistic, but the timeskips do not allow the reader to witness character growth. Feist did a fine job, but this will be the only book in the series I will end up reading - the repetitiveness and the lack of depth left the story too uninteresting to continue.

I read this story in paperback form back when it first came out. My reaction then was an excellent story! Rereading it has not changed my opinion! Pug, Tomas and even Roland make an interesting group of friends. Pug is apprenticed to a magician, Tomas to the guards and Roland is a squire. Their relationship to begin with is not a smooth one but they do end up being friends. In the course of learning magic Pug and Tomas come across a ship from another place. Learn about rifts, magic, and in this case a lot about politics. We have Tsunami from another world who want to conquer Midkemia. Why? Read and find out. Enjoy the action, romance, the humor and lots of plots twists!

I've been waiting for years for this book too make it in ebook form. All I can say is about freakin time! Great book!