Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Raymond E Feist

WARNING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.
Raymond E Feist.
Raymond E Feist is a fantastic author but one, which I am ashamed to admit I only discovered quite recently. This fantastic author has written a collective eighteen books which are all in fact part of one large series about the land the characters live in. The books do however span over many hundreds of years but involve some of the same characters in most of the books non the less as many of them are magicians.
The books are seated around the medieval type days but with a lot more magic and travelling between worlds via rifts and other methods.
Magician.
The first book in the story follows the story of Pug, an adopted boy who lives in the keep with his best friend. One day he is saved from a raging storm by a large man who worked for Kulgan the magician. The story follows pug as he follows the path of the magician. One day while he is fighting he is captured and taken to Kelewyn where he is made into a salve. A few years later it is discovered he has magic and he is placed on the path of a greater magic than he had known as a boy. By the time he is done he is a fully fledged magician who almost forgot where he was from, however he no longer cared he was not at home. However one day at the imperial games he goes mad at the violence demonstrated and breaks free and causes major havoc in doing so.
I would recommend the book to anyone.
10/10
Silverthorn.
The story of Silverthorn follows the Prince Arutha and Jimmy the Hand (a thief) who discovers that the guild of assassins are planning to kill the prince. However on the day they try to kill him Jimmy stops them but the princess is poisoned. The magician pug steps in to stop time and allow them to save her by finding an antidote. But they have a tough question ahead of them: how to fight the waking dead?

The Prince of the Blood.
The Prince of the Blood follows the story of Prince Borric and his twin brother Erland, sons of prince Arutha, who are ordered to go to Great Kesh and represent them at the Empresses’ birthday, however along route they are attacked by the royal house of Kesh and are thrown into a plot to throw Kesh and the Isles into a major war.

Talon of the Silver Hawk.
This book is nearer the end of the set and follows the story of Talon, a mountain boy, as he struggles through life after the obliteration of his people. He is taken in by Pug, the magician from the first book, and is trained as a gentleman of Roldem and is put into the competition for worlds greatest swordsman in order to spy on the Duke of Olasko. At the same time he must track down the murders who killed his race and find out who is trying to kill him and for what purpose.
He even has to go save a village of people who are to face the same fate as his own people.

The King Of Foxes.
This book follows Talwin Hawkins, the previously name Talon of the Silverhawk as he enters the service of the Duke, after a major betrayal Talon must escape from prison with one of his most hated enemies so that he may take down an entire city.

The Exiles Return.
In this book the Duke has retuned in order to kill his arch enemy Talon of the Silver Hawk, however along the way he starts to doubt his motive and when he is confronted with a suite of armour from another world that can attack at will he finds a new motive in life. To contact the gods and seek answers and he must team up with the corporation who took him down.

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