Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3176 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
A Darkness at Sethanon completes the "Riftworld saga" which started with Feist's Magician. When Raymond Feist's enormous novel was published, critics called it "the best new fantasy concept in years", and Feist has refined and explored that concept over a dozen novels. His "concept" was to bring together two (and later, more) whole, intricately realised Fantasy worlds. Midkemia is a Tolkienian realm, a European-Medieval series of kingdoms in which magic is prominent, and where men share the earth with dwarves and elves. Feist's genius was inventing another sword and sorcercy realm based more closely on eastern models, the Empire of Tsuranuanni, as vast as Ancient China, as formalised and devoted to the arts of war as a samurai Japan. A magical rift in time-space brings these two worlds clashing together, and the young boy Pug and his soldier friend Tomas are thrown into the ensuing maelstrom of invasion and epic battle, before embarking on a more fundamental magical journey towards the very roots of evil itself. Feist's two sequels to Magician, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon complete the richly conceived "Riftwar Saga", and Fiest has gone on to chronicle other aspects of his invented worlds. With Janny Wurts he wrote the "Empire" trilogy, which charts the rise, through the rigid patriarchy of the Empire of Tsuranuanni, of a remarkable female heroine, a woman who eventually reaches the heights of the imperial throne itself Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire and Mistress of Empire. More recently he has returned to the world of Medkemia, and to his hero Pug, with the Serpentwar saga, beginning with Shadow of a Dark Queen and continuing with Rise of a Merchant Prince, Rage of a Demon King and Shards of a Broken Crown. Heroic Fantasy is a crowded-enough field, but Feist stands out in it for his sheer inventive power, the scope and range of his narratives, the diversity of his characters and his thundering battle sequences. Start reading here, and you may find yourself unable to stop until you have followed the saga right up to date. --Adam Roberts

Synopsis
The triumphant finale to the Riftwar Saga -- Feist's first classic fantasy trilogy, now reissued with a fresh new look. As Prince Arutha and his companions rally their forces for the final battle with an ancient and mysterious evil, the dread necromancer Marcos the Black has once again unleashed his dark sorcerery. Now the fate of two worlds will be decided in a titanic struggle beneath the walls of Sethanon, as the link between Kelewan and Midkemia is revived.

Customer Reviews

Satisfying finale to a wonderful saga
A Darkness at Sethanon is the final piece in the jigsaw where the Riftwar saga is concerned, and if you have read Magician and Silverthorn already, this is essential reading. Don't be put off by the fact that Silverthorn appeared a standalone book- unrelated and paling into significance alongside the majestic 'Magician', as many loose ends (some that you didn't even know were there) are tied off in this finale.

Pug, Tomas, Arutha, Jimmy and a host of endearing characters face their biggest test yet- how to overcome the dreaded 'Enemy'.

Good Fantasy book
It is good overall. I read all the books of this saga without getting bored. However, it is a kind of mixed soup, you have a middle-earth kind world with magic and magicians, there is also alien invasion, also gods, a part of the book is on the outerspace, there is time travel...
To me the writer mixed it all different fantasy elements, so everybody can find a piece they like. Not my favorite

Enjoyable end to the Riftwar saga!
A Darkness at Sethanon is the final book of the Riftwar triology and finishes off one of my favourite fantasy saga's.

The book start's roughly a year after the event's of Silverthorn, the Nighthawks have returned to Krondor and once again Arutha and his companion's must travel north to face Murmandamus, but this time they go to kill him.

When it comes to action and adventure there's none better than Feist. Amazing battle scenes in the Northland's, the brilliant end of Armengar, the return of old heroes, Pug and Tomas and their race to find Macros the Black. It's a very well written and detailed book, the descriptions are brilliant and will keep you interested throughout.

4 stars for this book but overall the Riftwar trilogy deserves the full 5 stars!