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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780553270549
ISBN number: 0553270540
Label: Spectra
Manufacturer: Spectra
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 343
Printing Date: September 01, 1986
Publishing house: Spectra
Release Date: December 01, 1993
Sale Popularity Level: 27310
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A poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess Anita on the day of her wedding to Prince Arutha of Krondor.
To save his beloved, Arutha sets out in search of the mytics herb called Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and forbidding land of the Spellweavers.
Accompanied by a mercenary, a minstrel, and a clever young thief, he wil confront an ancient evil and do battle with the dark powers that threaten the enchanted realm of Midkemia.
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As I wrote in my review of 'Magician,' the very first book in this Riftwar trilogy, I very first read this series when I was a teen. Having gotten the urge to revisit it now twenty years later, I am enjoying it even more. Plot, character development, and world-creation are all excellent. I sped through this book in a few hours, and couldn't wait to start 'A Darkness at Sethanon,' the final book. If you are a fan of Tolkein-style story telling, and/or medeival-style fantasy in general that incorporates sword-and-sorcery themes, you will LOVE this book, and this series.
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"magician: apprentice" and "magician: master" were great. epic plot, large battles, loveable chercters.In short, all you need in good fantasy (the large battles are a bounus, of course, and a very well done one in those two).
Nevertheless Silverthorn is bad. really bad.
Fiest's very first mistake was adding the ultimate evil to the plot. don't wait for a grand war, or for any battle larger then a skirmish. don't hope to have a good plot, for the story is idiotic, ilogical and predictable. Also, there are elemnts that clearly appeard on the previos books.
Don't read. Don't even consider reading.
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This was a fine read. I enjoyed it. After it was over and I started on the subsequent book in the series I realized that not that much happened in the big scheme of things. Its setting up bigger things to come but really the story focuses on a Arutha and Jimmy side quest that I don't think will be important in later books (thats an assumption, I haven't read the other books). Well, if you are anything like me, and liked the very first two books you'll buy this one too, enjoy it, go on to the subsequent book and never re-read this one again.
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Find the good stuff and rescue the girl.
This is literally your classic rescue the princess story. Other than the threat of inter-dimensional war and your usual noble family political infighting all isn't going too badly for Prince Arutha, until his fiance is poisoned by your very nasty sort of thing.
This leads him and his crew (some more motley than others) on a long quest to find the one thing that can save her, with plenty of adventure and fighting to be had along the way.
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In many respects, Magician (now sold as two books) was a saga unto itself - the time span, events, war, political intrigue, and heck even the physical length of the book. Coming out with a subsequent installment worthy of the first, must truly have been daunting for Feist.
However, with Silverthorn I think he did well. He built upon some fine, solid characters, while introducing a few more. The pace is a little more frenetic, owing to the shorter time period which the book covers. Feist, as usual, laces his work with enough to intrigue us to keep us turning the pages (and wishing to skip pages too, so we can find out what happened next).
The novel centers around Arutha, Prince of Krondor, whose wife, in a failed endeavor upon his life, falls to a poisoned crossbow bolt. The cure for the toxin is from a rare flower found only in the north, in the heart of moredhel country - these are the elves of the Dark Path who hate all others with a passion. The mastermind behind the attack is a mysterious and terrifying moredhel named Murmandamus. When Pug, the sole Greater Path magician of Midkemia, learns of this creature and the powerful force, the seat of true power, behind Murmandamus, he sets out for Kelewan to seek answers. This is a bold move, considering the trouble he caused in the Tsurani empire before he fled back to his homeworld of Midkemia.
So the story unfolds on two tangents - one following Arutha in his quest to find the Silverthorn flower (and in doing so, gauging to some degree the army being assembled in the north) and Pug to uncover the truth of this new and powerful foe out to destroy his world.
Against all of this arises the possibility of the existence of the eldar, and the question of whether the powerful sorcerer Macros the Black is truly dead...
I highly recommend this book, but would urge you to read the Magician novels very first to understand the events in this one a little better.
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