The King's Buccaneer

After the first two pages of the Riftwar saga I was hooked. I quickly developed what I can only think of now as an obsession and finished the four book saga in week. The first two books were by far the best. I was engrossed by the magnificent idea of a boy forced to become a magician who despite his apprehensions becomes one of the greatest magicians the world(that is the fantasy world) has ever known. The saga is a must for all fantasy fans.I was thirsty for more and so I decided to read Feist's next book Prince of the Blood. It was horrible. No it was worse then horrible it was so bad I wanted to burn it (for those of you who are appalled and rightly so fear not the feeling only lasted for a short time I would of course never actually burn a book no matter how bad it was)A month later I decided Magician was good enough that I would give Feist another try despite Prince of the Blood, so I purchased The King's Buccaneer. I loved It. I couldn't put it down. I feigned sickness so I could stay home and read. If you are a fantasy fan you have to read this book and if you are not a fantasy fan read this book anyway.While it is not quite as good as Magician it is close. So read the Riftwar Saga and love it. Then skip the Prince of Blood and don't give it a second thought not even for a milisecond. But whatever you do don't miss this great adventure.

A continuation of the world developed in the Riftwar Saga, Feist uses this book to tell the tale of the young prince Nicholas, third in line for the rown of Krondor. Before he can rule as a noble of the Realm, Nicholas must first overcome his own inner demons in the form of a lame foot and the pressure of being the youngest son.An excellent read in keeping with Feist's masterful world of high fantasy!

The beginning of the story moved too quickly, giving little character detail. This made the horrors of a raid on the village seem like a faceless story. Much like a news clipping of one we know nothing of, so the emotions are not as likely to be there. The characters became more colorful once they were on a mission, then the book became hard to put down. The depth of many of the characters was very interesting from this point, specially some of the lesser ones. I could have done without the pirate captain stereotype. Still there were some new and interesting characters, mainly the "rogue and trickster" types. They were interesting and had new angles to their personalities, not borrowing from past stories, or movies, etc.

The King's Buccaneer was simply a great book. It was the best one that I have read that was wrote by Raymond Feist, and that is saying alot. All I wanted to do was to finish the book, everytime I got a free minute I was reading this book. If you are looking for a good series of books to read I would definently recommend the Rift War saga. It was a great series and I loved all of the books that I have read so far.

I ended the book last night and while I read the last lines of the book, the entire story came back to me, and I noticed a tear from my eyes. Now I'm nineteen years old and I read only fantasy and I can only admit that together with "lord of the rings" this is the only book I feld horrible. Because something happened, and the reader simpely doesn't want this to happen. I read the books in dutch, cause I started the magician in dutch and I automaticly read the rest in dutch. I'm gonna start on "shadow of a dark queen" today. And I can advice everyone who like's fantasy and hasn't read feist yet, go read him! for he is the best. cause he write's with magic, or maybe it's just a little trick. Nakur.