6/28/2023 0 Comments Magician feist![]() ![]() So rather than going back a few chapters to catch what I’d missed leading up to the rift and the war, I skimmed right on to the end. This was interesting for about a dozen pages as most wars in secondary worlds are, but I couldn’t get into it because the prose started to drag again. There’s a rift in the space-time continuum– RIFTwar, I see, I see–and a hoard of something from an alien world comes through the portal and invades the world of Midkemia (e.g. In all that skimming though, I did come across something interesting around the half-way point. I should not as it is clearly not for me. However, in a way, I did finish this book, by which I mean I skimmed about 80% of it, read the middle until it lost me, and then read the ending to see if I should go onto Part II. So I have zero memories connected to these genre classics and absolutely no appreciation for chosen farm boys with extravagant destinies to fulfill and/or empires to save. Didn’t grow up reading SFF or playing RPG and didn’t start reading Tolkien until the movies came out. I guess I’m just not cut out for retro high fantasy. ![]() Everything makes me want to take a shot of hard liquor at the moment, and this book didn’t do a good job of taking my mind off that. Well, it’s not entirely the book’s fault. can’t take the words in this book anymore. ![]() Location: in between board meetings and the governor’s daily statewide address ![]()
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