Exile's Return (Conclave of Shadows, Book 3) | Raymond E. Feist

Exile's Return (Conclave of Shadows, Book 3) | Raymond E. Feist | Good Read

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	Exile's Return (Conclave of Shadows, Book 3) Raymond E. Feist HarperTorch, 2006 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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Saved by a mage's intervention from certain death, Kaspar, the evil Duke of Olasko, is lord no more -- reduced to an exile's existence and forced to wander the harshest realms of the world he once enslaved.

Merciless deserts, forbidding mountains, and vast oceans now separate the once powerful despot from his former seat of power -- his dark dreams of vengeance overwhelmed by the daily struggle for survival. But there is a larger drama that will entangle the broken dictator. An evil devastating and deadly seeks entrance to the land -- the mystical tool of a dark empire hungry for conquest and destruction -- and Kaspar has inadvertently discovered the key. Suddenly, Midkemia's last hope is a disgraced and exiled duke whose history is written in blood, and who now must wield his sword as her champion . . . if he so chooses..

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Good ending, good start!

While the series lacks some of the depth of the original series set in Krondor, it carries Feist's distinctive writing flavor. It continues the series spanning saga, the never ending battle between good and evil, and revisits some of our favorite characters from the original (Pug, Thomas) etc.

Reading this book jogged my interest in the Feist saga enough to prompt me purchasing the 2nd in the saga (which I had missed), and the trilogy that would immediately follow this book in the over all timeline.

If you like Feist, I'd recommend it.

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Good Read

I love the Midkemia books, and always look forward to reading more stories by Raymond Feist. I didn't enjoy this trilogy as much as many of his others though. I don't know if it's because the storyline seemed a bit stale, or maybe I just needed to take a break from the series for a while.

It was nice to have the continuation of the story of Midkemia though, and I wouldn't want the stories to stop... keep 'em coming!

Fair to Midkemia

This read more like a book 1 or 2 of a series than a final book. Why not make this book the beginning of the Darkwar trilogy? I realized by the middle of the book that there was no way of any sort of conclusion to this "evil" that was uncovered. Towards the end of it, they didn't really even know what was going on. The book ends with a whimper trying to hook you into reading the next series. This book was a real disappointment plot wise when compared to the first two books.

This being said, the redemption of Kaspar was quite interesting. It might have been more interesting to play more on the internal battle of the realization of his life of iniquity versus who he was before his being coopted into evil plans. Focusing more on the conflict between his thirst for revenge and having to rely on the target of his revenge to solve his dilemma (which barely is addressed).

Overall is was a decent read but not up to the level of past Feist books.

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Not Free SF Reader

Given the arse, revenge becomes secondary.

After Talon gets the better of Kaspar previously he is not happy, being stranded and penniless, and somewhat understandably, wants to get some of his own back.

However, events he discovers give him something more important to do with the whole evil magician and associated threats that the Conclave of Shadows wants to stop.

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