Wrath of a Mad God (The Darkwar Saga, Book 3) by Raymond E. Feist
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Book Summary Author: Raymond E. Feist Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2008-04-01 ISBN: 0060792981 Number of pages: 432 Publisher: Eos |
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Book Reviews of the Wrath of a Mad God (The Darkwar Saga, Book 3)
Customer Review: A return to Riftwar form...Interesting New characters..some major plotholes.
Summary: 3 Stars
This book book offers a return to quality and scope not seen since A Darkness at Sethanon. Almost everyone is in rare form. Even Miranda, whom I hate and wished killed off 6 books ago isn't as horrible as she has been in the past. Clearly, Ray Feist actually gave the characters some thought when he wrote this, even introducting 2 NEW races and re-introducing old villains not seen since A Darkness at Sethanon(ADAS)
Pros
The God that has been molding Pug from his beginnings is finally revealed.
The story is epic in scope, as much so if not more than ADAS. Worlds die as evil beyond the Midkemian universe seeks to devour world after world.
All the secrets of Macros are finally revealed.
Why the Gods of Kelewan are so useless is finally revealed.
The Gods of Midkemia finally take a hand in preventing the destruction of the universe instead of just saying THEY ARE WHAT THEY ARE.
Pug does some cool spells to stop the Dark God, though is almost too little too little.
We finally get to see Kelewan in more detail after almost 16 years since Mistress of the Empire.
Nakor's secrets are revealed and it's a doozy.
We see Pug interact with the Thuril for the very first time, the people of his late wife Katala
The Tsurani finally get a challenge worthy of their awesome Empire, and it proves almost too much.
We get, for the first time, some hope that Pug can ultimately succeed in saving the universe from destruction.
The Tsurani great ones are in action, always a must see.
We learn more about Pug's ultimate destiny.
Leso Varen finally gets his!
Cons
Why was Miranda able to escape so easily? Many of us looked forward to her demise?
Why didn't the Choja help defend the Empire? They're allied with some of the houses and their Magicians are first rate Defense Spell users. The Dasati were eating up their entire world and they did nothing? They might have bene able to help defeat the Dasati Big plot hole.
Why didn't the Thuril fight? It's their world too.
Why did Pug have to let so many Tsurani die? He's had the rift game on lock since A Darkness At Sethanon. Him and great ones could have made another golden bridge if need be. Why didn't they?
Why were so few great ones seen in action. There were at least 2000 of them from numbers given in Magician. Acting together, they should have been able to do much more damage to the Dasati than they did. Their ancestors made the Golden bridge for sakes!
Why does Tomas remember important details only when the world is going to be destroyed? It might save like millions of lives if he didn't have memory block from Ashen-Shugar's days.
Why does Pug only do one awesome spell? Come on, he spends most of his time dodging and hiding from people he can magcially body slam. I'd like to see Pug go all out instead of huffingand puffing from place to place?
Why was Pug couldn't tired from simple spells like flying. Being invisible and flying should be simple to him.
Since this was a Macros tell all, why didn't we learn his final fate? We are left with the assumption that he died fighting Maar and that's it.
Again, since this is a tell all of sorts, why are not told what the Chaos wars was really about. Weve been told the lesser Gods attacked the Greater Gods under Nalar's instigation and the Greater Gods attacked the Blind Gods and the Valheru attacked the Lesser Gods. Who attacked who and WHY?
Why are the dread made to look so dangerous? Tomas and Pug smacked one in like 5 seconds in ADAS and now they're saying how tough they are? Tomas even bragged about vanquishing the Dread Lords in ADAS. Why is he so worried now?
Pug\Milamber should be a legend on Kelewan. Why does everyone always protest when one of their own legends try to save them.
Why didn't Pug make a Golden bridge to save more people? It was within his power?
Why is Tomas always a doosh until Pug says he has to help and he gets off the Queen to go save the world?
Why didn't Pug think of the Paradise world by himself? I mean, how many empty worlds has he been to?
Why didn't Pug relocate Sauur like 50 years ago. Why didn't he get them to help the Tsurani?
Why didn't they interrogate the Dreadmaster in the city Forever?
How come Pug still doesn't know time magic by the end of this book even though he's already traveled in time?
Why did the Dread have such an elaborate plot to steal life energy to ascend when there were shown to be easier ways to enter the Midekmia universe in the very same book?
Why one Great One left to guard the high council when they were under attack and there should have been dozens on hand.
Why does Pug bother arguing with leaders any more? Just magic them!
All the history of the Acoma from the Empire books was wiped out in one book. Kind of a put off to reading the Empire series again.
Who are the Quor and the Crystal race they serve? They seemed to perform pretty much the same function as the lifestone. But if the lifestone was ixnayed, why do we need these guys. What is their relationship to the Masters of Majinor?
I could go on and on about the cons, but at least it's shorter than the Serpentwar books faults. Closer to original. Just some significant plots whole that didn't have to be there kept this from being an awesome book. I haven't recommended a book in this series since ADAS, and I would barely recommend the first two of this one, but this one gets a recommendation. If Feist could leave out the ginormous plot holes in this and the previous books, the next series will be better than riftwar.