Krondor: Tear of the Gods audiobook

Still awesome after all these books . . . I think this is book 14 or 15, the end of the 4th or 5th series of books in the middle of the larger 30 book series . . . and it is STILL AWESOME! I have seen some who say they don’t feel it anymore and that it just doesn’t have the same spice as the original Riftwar series.. That’s cool if you feel that way, but I am still digging these quite a lot!As I mentioned above, this is the final book in a series within a series. This trilogy was based around video games that took place in Feist’s world of Midkemia. Also, it takes place after the Riftwar but before several books farther along in the series that I have already read. Confused yet? Well, basically, Feist took a step back in time after the Serpentwar saga to write this trilogy. And, since the fans of the series are most likely Riftwar fans, I am guessing he decide placing it in that time period made more sense.Some of the characters are ones you are familiar with from the Riftwar, but there are several new ones as well. The characters tend to be of a very specific type with certain skills – like you would pick at the beginning of a video game. The quests they go on seem to have a cavalcade of baddies ending with a big battle against the king baddie – just like in video games. This book featured goblins, vampires, zombies, cursed amulets, sacred orbs, magic, swordplay, etc. etc. etc. - all elements of a great fantasy video game and a great fantasy book.I look forward to the next trilogy within the series to see where Feist takes me. I think it is a trilogy that takes place during the Riftwar, so we will be going even farther back in time!UPDATE: I just went to look for the next book in the series and this was not a trilogy like I thought, but actually a quadrilogy - Jimmy and the Crawler is next!

More Jimmy!Honestly, I just find this fun. Fluffy fun. We get a little side-story lead-up to the big war with GODS a few decades later and it all fits like a straight line from Arutha to Demon War.Was this or the other two novels strictly necessary?Ehhhh... no. They WERE, however, necessary for the pure fun of it. Jimmy carries the tale with Pug's grandson and a Keshian court wizard. Getting into trouble is the name of the game for this ex-thief spymaster Jimmy. And he does... getting caught up with necromancers and dead gods and mad pirates. Alongside an angry dwarf. :)More of a traditional fantasy than anything else, but it is still FUN. It's fleshing out the early Krondorian days in a very big way.

5 stars - Dutch hardcover Another smashing read. Feist’s writing just gets better and better. Love journeying with the characters. They grow, they develop and you get to know them better. The vile sorcerer Sidi plans to strike the kingdom a fatal blow, setting the murderous pirate Bear upon the high seas in pursuit of the vessel that is transporting Midkemia's most holy object; the Tear of the Gods. From this miraculous stone all magic power is believed to flow. And if the Tear becomes the mage's trinket, the future will hold only terror, death and unending night. For Squire James, Lieutenant William, and the able magician Jazhara, the race is on to rescue the remarkable artifact. For all manner of dark creatures are gathering with one unspeakable purpose: to breed the chaos that will hasten the destruction of Squire James and his brave compagnons.

Another good read.

Robbie de Hand is toch een van mijn favoriete karakters in de boeken van Raymond Feist. Dit keer wordt hij bijgestaan door een vrouwelijke magiër, William, een jongenman van het bergersgilde en een krijgpriester. Dit alles verweven in een mysterie wat alleen Feist op die manier op papier krijgt.Meer dan het lezen waard!

Weer een geweldig boek van de hand van Raymond E. Feist. Ben een beetje de tel kwijt, maar geloof dat dit het 15e boek is in de Riftwarcycle. De boeken in deze sub-serie zijn voornamelijk gebaseerd op de jaren '90 computerspel. Het speelt na de gebeurtenissen van de eerste 4 boeken, maar weer voor de andere verhalen die daarop volgden/. Na de boeken over de Slangenoorlog heeft Feist een stap terug in de tijd genomen om deze verhalen te schrijven. Het is wel lastig als je in het ene boek leest dat een personage dood is, terwijl dezelfde in een ander boek weer springlevend rondspringt.Het verhaal loopt een beetje als een video-spel, met allerlei slechteriken, die verslagen moeten worden, voor je bij de eind-baas bent.Robby de Hand wordt, samen met een vrouwelijke magiër, Ridder-Luitenant William, een Krijgerspriester en een lid van het bergers-gilde, op pad gestuurd om de traan der goden te bergen uit een gezonken schip. Dat dit niet zo makkelijk zal gaan moge duidelijk zijn.Op naar het volgden deel, Robbie en de kruiper

A fun ol' little tale filled with revenge and glory. Takes me back to when I was just 14 years old lingering to go on an adventure and milk a cow or some other relenting doing.

Great Story, love the way the well loved Characters just keep giving love. Arutha is maybe not actively in a quest its just great to read about him. Jimmy the Hand is big and setting up his own spy network but he is still the absolutely brilliant young thief. Full of life and wit

Een zalig boek! Ik heb dit boek in praktisch 2 dagen uitgelezen!

Beautiful fantasy world.... Simply amazing!!! This man could give " a game of thrones" a run for its money!!!

Austin is going through another epic-level winter storm, and I'm in the third day of no power, no heat, and no internet, which means I can't work. So during the daylight hours I alternate between worried pacing, and reading. Which means I knocked this book out in 2 days, something I don't normally do any time other than my annual vacation. That might be a factor in why I enjoyed this book the most in this trilogy; I've noticed that I tend to enjoy books more when I can engage with them for longer periods of time uninterupted. Or perhaps because the opening chapter had one of Feist's better setups for the primary villain, good enough that I wished he had spent several chapters on those characters instead of just the one. Or perhaps because he had a female lead character, Jazhara, this time around who actually got to be a major influence on the progression of the plot, even though he still had James comment on her beauty in a way that could have been entirely left out with no harm to the story at all, but then that seems to be a knee-jerk compulsion with Feist. Fortunately those comments were limited to just a few sentences if memory serves. These books are still Tolkein style epic fantasy, easily translatable into AD&D terms. This book isn't particularly innovative or unusual, but it manages to be fun, and for getting through a horrible winter storm, I needed something on the lite end of the spectrum.

That was an adventure in and of itself!As this book continued the story of the theft of the Tear of the Gods, and it's eventual recovery, I was captivated by the characters new and old, and the labyrinthine plot twists that I've come to expect from Feist's books.It was wonderful to see the more mature Jimmy the Hand taking his first steps in creating a budding spy network, while also helping to save the world once more, and the development of William's career as a soldier, and a man - plus finding out about those loved ones who helped to shape the man he would become.The storyline made me almost breathless at times with its fast-paced changes, and it was occasionally hard for me to see where it was going - until it got there, and another layer of that onion was peeled back again, to show that deeper underside, which was always plotting, always moving a step ahead of the heroes - and always planning to beat the odds.The ending was sort-of unexpected for me, though I had started to suspect who was behind all the plotting, and I'm now looking forwards to seeing just how James will sort out the mysterious 'Crawler', and then what comes next after that!I do love it, when an author can keep me wanting to know even more, with the way he writes a story, and Raymond E Feist is certainly up there with the very best of them 🙂

Another good book, as the final book of the trilogy. Compared to earlier ones, feels a bit smaller in scale, just a small band or people doing the work, and dealing with ever increasing issues as they go. (In this respect, feels a bit like a D&D campaign of some sort, as keep encountering ever greater threats). Is a nice feel to it, even if it does mean the general host of characters is less than in the first two books, though at the same time, the lack of much interaction of other major players does make it feel like overall maybe the threat isn't that dire, except for the local area. For the local area though, does have a nice horror sort of theme to it. All in all, a good close out for the trilogy, even if it does leave a few threads hanging that I'm unsure are resolved in future books.

Feisty likes a good fight. There are loads of them in this book and they’re full of descriptions of swords being swung, hammers being crashed down and magical fireballs being thrown. The plot is fairly simple. A magical item (the titular Tear) has been attempted stolen while on a sea voyage and the ship wrecked with the item still on board. Our heroes, including good old Jimmy the Hand, have to try and get it back. They are faced with the usual collection of rogues, including vampires this time. There is the occasional thought about who is really behind all the chaos, linking the book to others in the sub series.It’s not particularly complex but great fun. And if you like reading about fights you’ll get your fill in here.