De karakter van Erik maakte een flinke groei door. Ru, tja... ben niet zo'n erge fan van zijn karakter, maar eindelijk kwam hij achter het bedrog van Sylvia. Ook de 'romantiek' in de boeken hoeft van mij niet zo. Gelukkig waren er de invasie en veldslagen, die mij beter lagen. Kon ze ook goed voor ogen zien. Look, there's lots to enjoy in fits and starts through Rage, but it's far from Feist's best work. In returning to his complete works, I worry that I am coming to realise that his earlier books just weren't as good as I remember. The middle two books here could have been combined to one, a lot of the needless guff edited out, and a very strong book may just have been the result. Instead what we get is the literary equivalent of trying to arrange four food items on a dinner plate: there's nothing wrong with the sum of the parts, but it's just never going to be right. (Seriously, try it. You can't make even numbered food items look good on a plate!) And Roo's odd segue to go and deal with Sylvia and Duncan - to utter miscreants from RoaMP - is so weird. It's almost jabbed in amongst the rest of the narrative as an afterthought. "Oh, I'd better deal with those people..." Instead of having their fall be the result of some crescendo of intrigue and subterfuge, Roo just stumbles upon them while he's trying to flee the fallen Krondor. It's almost absurd, and certainly is very far away from the satisfied feeling one should get when horrid characters like Sylvia and her father get their comeuppance. The Emerald Queen's army is almost upon Midkemia and the army is staging. Erik Von Darkmoor is sergeant-major of the King's armies and Rupert is almost single-handedly financing the war. The Emerald Queen and her army are making for the Lifestone, a magical source of power capable of destroying worlds. Vast preparations are being made in Krondor, the anticipated point of invasion by the Emerald Queen's army, and all of Midkemia's allies - as well as some enemies - are being called upon to help. Rage of a Demon King is the third out of four books in Raymond E. Feist’s Serpentwar Saga, one of the subseries in the much larger Riftwar Cycle.

When the final conflict is joined, reptile will stand against man and magician against demon; and those who battle for good must be victorious… or all is doomed. Exciting battles with nicely detailed handling of the gradual loss of ground, hard choices to destroy cities and towns as the retreat became inevitable.This is the book where Duke James, previously known as Jimmy the Hand, is killed. His death wasn’t as heroic as I had remembered it. He did die while doing heroic things, but it seemed like he could have escaped in time if his guilt hadn’t made him reluctant to escape when others would die as a result of his actions. Also, I had forgotten his wife was killed with him because she wouldn’t leave him while he was being reluctant to escape. I didn’t think the way it all played out was necessarily wrong for the characters, just that it wasn’t quite how I remembered it and I have somewhat mixed feelings.

Tot nog toe het beste boek uit deze reeks, niet alleen omdat de oorlog begint en het meer actie heeft, maar vooral omdat het niet langer op Ru is gericht. Dit verhaal focust zich op Erik en het gevecht en op de magiërs Puc, Macros, Miranda en Nakur die proberen uit te vinden hoe ze de wereld kunnen redden. Duke James and Roo arrange a deal with the Quegans, which ultimately resulted in the Quegans believing that a treasure fleet would be coming their way. Six hundred ships of the Emerald Queen herald the start of the invasion. Pug is persuaded by Miranda to destroy the fleet, however Pug fails to do so. The fleet was magically protected and Pug almost died after his own fireball turned on him. It is also revealed that the Emerald Queen was in fact a demon in disguise. He heals in Elvandar for a couple of months. A foul and terrible thing has escaped a devoured world to feed on one consumed by chaos; an insatiable nightmare creature which seeks to own and corrupt the source of life itself. urn:lcp:rageofdemonking0000feis_y0e0:epub:9436ea77-9b92-49d5-80c3-bd4f8fba5dba Foldoutcount 0 Identifier rageofdemonking0000feis_y0e0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9k46kp3n Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780008120856 I liked the demons, the descriptions of their society and political wrangling. I would have liked more.The whole of the magnificent Riftwar Cycle by bestselling author Raymond E. Feist, master of magic and adventure, now available in ebook As the Emerald Queen’s shadow lengthens once more across the land of the Midkemia, her forces stand ready to launch a devastating invasion. But come the battle’s dawn, the magician Pug, and his life-long friend Tomas, will discover that something far worse than the Queen’s sorcery is afoot. Swords, bows, wits and courage will no longer be enough to defeat the descending plague. There’s an ominous warning to Pug in this book regarding what would happen if he chose to live his own life versus accepting godhood: ”…you shall know the loss of those you love, the pain of thousands, and the sting of bitter failure at the end of your life.”.

The third instalment in the Serpentwar Saga is something of an amalgam of the previous two books. Rage of a Demon King's chief focus is on the war effort between the Kingdom and the vast, invading army of the Emerald Queen. Feist handles the drawn-out conflict effectively, with soldier wunderkind Erik von Darkmoor appearing a more rounded protagonist than he was in Shadow of a Dark Queen. His merchant friend Roo Avery, whose wiley opportunism made for a superb, imaginative and different kind of read in Rise of a Merchant Prince, is relegated to more of a bit-part role, which is a shame. Riftwar alumni Pug and Tomas have doubtless faced more inventive perils than those on show here, but their sections remain compelling, even if at times the debates as to the forces at play on Midkemia and the universe in general hint at greater conclusions than they reach. In this third book in the Serpentwar Saga, the war from Novindus comes to the Kingdom of the Isles. Roo's hard earned money goes to finance it. The training that Erik's been put through comes into place as he leads the soldiers and tries to keep as many of them alive as possible. There is only so much they can do though, and at the end of the book, you realize just how much more the Kingdom of the Isles has to do to recover, and you wonder how they'll be able to do it without the strong characters that died in the fighting.The magical reset button on the age of Pug and Miranda. Feist just can't let go of his main characters. The below spoiler is possibly a spoiler for the entire larger series, but it’s only speculation based on content in this book and the title of the final book.

I can never decide if I like this book more or less than the second one in the series. One thing that has always impressed me about Feist is how he doesn't mind killing off main characters, or places, even before the end. It's hard to have read the Midkemia books from the beginning, and watch as the characters you've come to know and understand, disappear from the stories for forever. Of the places that you can envision in your minds eye... Part of me wishes that Arutha had still been alive for the war, because a small part of me thinks his wiley mind could have saved what even Duke James and Calis and Erik couldn't But part of me is glad that Arutha was long dead, because I don't know that he would have taken the loss of life and land the Kingdom faced any better than James did. Deeply and incredibly entrenched with emotion and reality, despite set in a high epic fantasy world, the Serpentwar Saga, and by extension the Riftwar Cycle, continues to entrap me. Body and soul. War has come to Midkemia once again. The armies of Novindus and the Emerald Queen have reached the shores of the Kingdom of the Isles, and not everyone will get out of this war alive.This one was a little uneven for me. The story focuses on a variety of characters instead of focusing primarily on one. I enjoyed the ensemble feel and I was interested in all the characters, but some sections were more interesting to read than others. It wasn’t always the same characters I was the most interested in; sometimes I was bored and interested by different sections about the same sets of characters. I did really like how some major plot threads were resolved or at least significantly advanced, not just from this subseries but from the larger story. Annoying that Miranda decides she regrets not having children "the fist time round". I could go on a rant about how people who choose not to have children are depicted in fiction. I'm not going to do so. This is just another example, and it's just another example of Feist's tendency to have his female characters' primary purpose to be love interests and baby factories. Yeah, that’s pretty much all I have. A general summary and some silly comments about errors. Well, I do have a couple spoilery comments too.