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With each new trilogy Feist seems to expand his world. Most would, you would think, eventually find it too large to handle or allow it to run away with them, but Feist seems to deal with his creations remarkably well, without descending into corniness (the way Terry Brooks has with Shannara). Having pretty much exhausted his avenues for new evils to conquer in his world, Feist moves his characters into a different plane of existence where madness, mayhem and complete evil are the norm. With the setup taken care of in the first book, the second brings in the meat of the conflict and introduces new alien characters as well as resurrecting old ones (which any Feist fan could have seen coming). Despite my doubts after the first book of the trilogy, and despite a slow beginning to the story that caused me to put the book aside for a month before returning to it, Feist managed to pick up the action and recapture my interest, and whet my apetite for the conclusion of the story. He is one of the most skillful writers I've come across.
