Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10121 in Books
• Published on: 1995-04-24
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

Synopsis
Something evil is moving on the continent of Novindus. Ancient rivals have banded together to fight a force rising in the mountains to the west. The Pantathians are on the move again and it seems they have help of unknown origin. The "Serpentwar Saga" is the second part of the "Riftwar Saga".

Customer Reviews

Brilliant start to the Serpentwar saga!
In my opinion Shadow of a Dark Queen is one of the best book's that Feist has written. He introduces a whole host of new charecter's including the two good friend's, Erik and Roo, who play a major role.

This book is darker than previous novel's and Feist pulls it off superbly. A small band of cut-throat's are trained and sent across the ocean to Novindus to infiltrate the Dark Queen's mass horde, led by Calis and Nakor.

Its the start of another amazing series and you will not be disappointed! I only wish i could read the lot for the first time again as good fantasy fiction is hard to come by.

OK but nothing special.
There is a desperate attempt to make this book dark and brutal but it is so forced that it doesn't really work.
It is darker than his previous books but not in a very convincing way.

The plot is OK with a disparate band of people travelling to fight evil against overwhelming odds.
There isn't anything unusual.

The characters are standard fantasy stuff.
Over all a readable piece of nonsense. Kills some time nothing more.

Horses
as allways with mister Feist a really great read, strong new characters and some great old faces, but do we realy need to be reminded every other chapter how good Eric is with horses, ever heard of flogging a dead one...