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Has anyone else read Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga? I finished it recently and am not sure exactly how I feel about it. Parts of it were so good and interesting, and then there were parts that were so underwhelming or just left me scratching my head. I was really into Magician:Apprentice, following Pug's journey, and then all the sudden he disappears and we don't see him again for a long awhile. What the heck? It really threw me off because the book made me feel like the saga was being told through his eyes, and that this was his journey. From that moment on everything just felt off slightly. I never got 100% comfortable with it. I don't particularly know why in this case I couldn't accept that, because it's not like its the only book to do that. LOTR springs to mind, but I don't feel like LOTR misled me.
I also felt like too many important character developments either happened too quickly or "off-screen" (because of collapsing a story spanning a long time). For instance, Tomas's grappling with Ashen-Shugar seemed way too short and therefore way too easy. And seeing as how he became a huge part of the story, I felt like there needed to be more struggle. Or Pug's relationship with Katala. A great deal of time was spent developing his relationship with Carline, but then quickly he meets Katala, falls in love, and marries he? Not only did this marriage seem to happen to quickly, but I felt so misled by the whole Carline thing. I get that it was supposed to be their first love thing, and each moved on, but I didn't feel the book set me up for that. It felt like it was setting them up to ultimately get together in the end.
The climax/ending was underwhelming too. Armengar was such an epic, awesome battle that the final battle felt really dull and anticlimactic. Felt like Armengar and the final battle should have been combined somehow. All the Macros/Pug/Tomas stuff at the end was cool, but still Tomas's battle was a little underwhelming. I loved the final reveals, but I thought way too much information was left for the end of the series. It should have parsed out more, because I had questions for far too long, and learning so much at once at the end was a little overwhelming.
There were a lot of things I wish the book had spent more time on, and some of those are just things that I personally wanted to see more of, but can understand that it wasn't necessary for the story and things needed to be sped along. But there were a lot of things that got short shrift that I felt were necessary to the story, and so the story didn't always affect me properly. And the series ended way too quickly. It wrapped stuff up in too few pages.
Has anyone else read Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga? I finished it recently and am not sure exactly how I feel about it. Parts of it were so good and interesting, and then there were parts that were so underwhelming or just left me scratching my head. I was really into Magician:Apprentice, following Pug's journey, and then all the sudden he disappears and we don't see him again for a long awhile. What the heck? It really threw me off because the book made me feel like the saga was being told through his eyes, and that this was his journey. From that moment on everything just felt off slightly. I never got 100% comfortable with it. I don't particularly know why in this case I couldn't accept that, because it's not like its the only book to do that. LOTR springs to mind, but I don't feel like LOTR misled me.
I also felt like too many important character developments either happened too quickly or "off-screen" (because of collapsing a story spanning a long time). For instance, Tomas's grappling with Ashen-Shugar seemed way too short and therefore way too easy. And seeing as how he became a huge part of the story, I felt like there needed to be more struggle. Or Pug's relationship with Katala. A great deal of time was spent developing his relationship with Carline, but then quickly he meets Katala, falls in love, and marries he? Not only did this marriage seem to happen to quickly, but I felt so misled by the whole Carline thing. I get that it was supposed to be their first love thing, and each moved on, but I didn't feel the book set me up for that. It felt like it was setting them up to ultimately get together in the end.
The climax/ending was underwhelming too. Armengar was such an epic, awesome battle that the final battle felt really dull and anticlimactic. Felt like Armengar and the final battle should have been combined somehow. All the Macros/Pug/Tomas stuff at the end was cool, but still Tomas's battle was a little underwhelming. I loved the final reveals, but I thought way too much information was left for the end of the series. It should have parsed out more, because I had questions for far too long, and learning so much at once at the end was a little overwhelming.
There were a lot of things I wish the book had spent more time on, and some of those are just things that I personally wanted to see more of, but can understand that it wasn't necessary for the story and things needed to be sped along. But there were a lot of things that got short shrift that I felt were necessary to the story, and so the story didn't always affect me properly. And the series ended way too quickly. It wrapped stuff up in too few pages.
