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December Books
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dantheman23.livejournal.comMistress of the Empire
by Raymond Feist
This is the last book in the Empire Trilogy of books. Like the previous one, it’s long (680 pages), and this one dragged a little bit for me. The beginning was really good and interesting, and the end was well done, but the pacing in the middle was pretty slow. It took me a couple weeks to read this one just because I couldn’t get myself all that interested in it. Not that it was a bad book, I still enjoyed it overall, but it just dragged. Towards the end it got that “page turner” feeling going again though. The finale was good, even if it was totally predictable. Glad I read the Empire Trilogy, but I’m excited to go back to the main world and see what’s going on there after the war. 3/5
Prince of the Blood
by Raymond Feist
And this book does take us back to the main world, but it's 17 years later! At the very end of the last main world book one character had twins and now the twins are 17 or 18. This book follows them on an adventure into a part of the land we had heard about but never really explored or visited in the series yet. Like the Empire books, it was a little light on the traditional fantasy stuff and heavy on the political intrigue. This is actually the 15 year anniversary edition, and in the afterword the author mentions that this is the only book he's ever rewritten; he hated the original ending and went back and "fixed" it for this edition, which I thought was interesting. Overall I really liked it, and it's really fun seeing the characters grow older, have children, and change in a lot of ways. Characters will mention something that happened at the beginning of the series and I'm like, "Umm...oh yeah that's right!". Liking the series a lot. 4/5
The King's Buccaneer
by Raymond Feist
This book is about the twins' younger brother, and it takes place another 7 or 8 years after the end of the last book! I totally feel like Feist went "OK, enough of this political intrigue stuff, let's get back to basic fantasy". This is a classic tale of exploration, fighting evil, and high adventure. Lots of gritty action, some definite surprises, and just overall very enjoyable. 4/5
Books for December: 3
Books for 2011: 55
by Raymond Feist
This is the last book in the Empire Trilogy of books. Like the previous one, it’s long (680 pages), and this one dragged a little bit for me. The beginning was really good and interesting, and the end was well done, but the pacing in the middle was pretty slow. It took me a couple weeks to read this one just because I couldn’t get myself all that interested in it. Not that it was a bad book, I still enjoyed it overall, but it just dragged. Towards the end it got that “page turner” feeling going again though. The finale was good, even if it was totally predictable. Glad I read the Empire Trilogy, but I’m excited to go back to the main world and see what’s going on there after the war. 3/5
Prince of the Blood
by Raymond Feist
And this book does take us back to the main world, but it's 17 years later! At the very end of the last main world book one character had twins and now the twins are 17 or 18. This book follows them on an adventure into a part of the land we had heard about but never really explored or visited in the series yet. Like the Empire books, it was a little light on the traditional fantasy stuff and heavy on the political intrigue. This is actually the 15 year anniversary edition, and in the afterword the author mentions that this is the only book he's ever rewritten; he hated the original ending and went back and "fixed" it for this edition, which I thought was interesting. Overall I really liked it, and it's really fun seeing the characters grow older, have children, and change in a lot of ways. Characters will mention something that happened at the beginning of the series and I'm like, "Umm...oh yeah that's right!". Liking the series a lot. 4/5
The King's Buccaneer
by Raymond Feist
This book is about the twins' younger brother, and it takes place another 7 or 8 years after the end of the last book! I totally feel like Feist went "OK, enough of this political intrigue stuff, let's get back to basic fantasy". This is a classic tale of exploration, fighting evil, and high adventure. Lots of gritty action, some definite surprises, and just overall very enjoyable. 4/5
Books for December: 3
Books for 2011: 55
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