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Unlike its predecessor, Magician: Master, doesn’t suffer so much from the split of the original story into two books. Its problems are unique: Raymond E. Feist seems unable to justify the focus on the supporting characters or to conclude any plotlines in a way that is not anticlimactic or arbitrary.
The story of Magician: Master continues to follow the transformations the two boys Pug and Tomas undergo during the war between the inhabitants of Midkemia and the invaders of another world, the Tsurani. While the magician’s apprentice finds himself captured by the enemy, living as a slave in a completely unknown environment, Tomas begins to suffer the effects of the magical [...]
Written by Raymond E. Feist, Magician: Apprentice is a fantasy novel that presents a familiar universe, built on genre tropes, but also a story with wasted potential, which suffers from some shallow worldbuilding and a highly problematic climax.
The book follows a young orphan named Pug and his best friend, Tomas, who see their lives drastically change the moment they come across a shipwreck on the coast of Crydee, where they live. Out of the wreckage comes a strange individual in strange clothing who speaks an even stranger language, leading the Duke of Crydee to imagine that the man came from another world entirely. In the midst of preparations for a possible invasion, the [...]