Special thanks to my Patrons on Patreon for giving me extra support towards my passion for reading and reviewing! You can find this and the rest of my reviews at Novel Notions | I also have a Booktube channel You can order the book from: Book Depository (Free shipping) I’ve also heard from quite a lot of people that Riftwar: Empire trilogy is the best sub-series in the entire 30+ books of Riftwar Cycle, and I look forward to finding out how it will click with me. I won’t be continuing with this trilogy, but I will still attempt Riftwar: Empire, I was interested in this trilogy in the first place anyway. Unfortunately, these two situations aren’t applicable to me, and The Magician was overall disappointing. I know I would’ve loved this so much more if I had read it at least a decade ago, or maybe if I have my nostalgia goggles on.
To those who commented on my Booktube channel that they have a feeling that Riftwar Saga will be too outdated for me now that I’ve read a lot of modern fantasy, they were right. Feist himself mentioned that this situation is fixed eventually in the next trilogy because of Wurts’s involvement in Riftwar: Empire, and I can’t wait to read that. Lastly, Telewan, Tsurani, and the Game of Council-though interesting to hear-felt like an underdeveloped concept.
#MAGICIAN MASTER RAYMOND E FEIST SERIES#
The way the lore of the series is explored is through a crazy info dump look at chapter 22, just to give a taste. Time skips happened non-stop practically every chapter took 30-50 minutes (felt like 2 hours sometimes) to read. I’ve mentioned in my review of Magician: Apprentice that the chapters in these books felt like a bunch of connecting short stories combined. Nothing about their voices or character resembled what I enjoyed in Magician: Apprentice anymore. To make things even worse, the changes to Pug and Tomas transform them into a completely different character than what we’ve read in Magician: Apprentice. Before this chapter occurred, he was still an apprentice at magic, but after this chapter, he immediately became a master. Do you know how long it takes for Pug to become a master? One chapter. However, what I didn’t expect or know was how disjointed the developments leading to this were. Here’s the thing the title says it already, and I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that Magician: Master means we will see Pug becoming a master magician. So intriguing character’s development and world-building accompanied with a memorable scene, what could go wrong? Well, the outdated executions. Plus, there’s also the memorable scene of Pug’s wrath. I also enjoyed that the majority of the story takes place in the Asian-inspired setting of Telewan. The character’s development of Pug and Tomas-for better or worse-were totally intriguing to me. And to be fair, before I get to the things that didn’t click with me, there were indeed several things that intrigued me so much. Despite the issues I had with Magician: Apprentice, I thought that book did have plenty of redeeming factors that I thought could be explored further in the second half.
Magician: Master is the second half of Magician-the first book in the Riftwar Saga series-by Raymond E. I gave this an honest attempt, but I won’t be continuing with the Riftwar Saga. I feel like nostalgia goggles are needed to enjoy this to the fullest now. And to be fair, before I get to the things that didn’t 2.5/5 stars 2.5/5 stars I feel like nostalgia goggles are needed to enjoy this to the fullest now.