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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 1694628" data-attributes="member: 1288">Oh God, don't remind me.I'm still not 100% convinced that the world doesn't have two Raymond Feists. Or maybe he was replaced by a cloned twin doppleganger from the mirror universe. It's inconceivable to me that the same man who wrote the Riftwar Saga--perhaps a bit cliched and traditional, but still one of the better fantasy series from my youth--is the same man who produced the nigh-unreadable Serpentwar Saga.I've actually enjoyed some of his other later stuff (like the Legacy of Krondor series, although I'm furious at him for moving on to something else before finishing it), so I know it's not that his talent deserted him. I don't know what the deal was with that.Another book is Villains by Necessity. Can't think of the author off-hand. The premise is that all the evil in the world has been defeated except for a small group of vilains, who are responsible for bringing things back into balance. Leaving aside the fact that I've always hated that twee and artificial definition of "balance," the book doesn't deliver on its promise. The villains don't come across as evil, just arrogant, spoiled, and annoying. The author finds every possible excuse to keep them from doing evil things, probably so that the reader will continue to sympathize. (Which I didn't.) And the forces of "good" are pretty much jerks themselves, which throws the entire setup into question. So the author fails to deliver on the very premise of the book.Bleah.</blockquote>

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