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Servant of the Empire by Janny Wurts, Raymond E. Feist

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2.0

This novel was about twice the length as book one and there is a TON of politics and war and economics in this one - so much so, that it felt over weighted with too much going on - an issue arises, and a solution is found, and the issue is gone - just in time for another issue - nothing sticks around for long story wise except for the lingering between the slave "Kevin" (Horrible name by the way, for a fantasy hero) and the Lady Mara - the Asian influence is what kept me going because the rest of this novel is just too much politics for my liking - and not much story - and a year passed - and nothing - just time passing to allow the child to grow older throughout the entire novel - I just can not stomach the end that I see coming - it is taking too long to tell the Main story, and spends so much time on these little nested stories that begin and end within a few chapters with little to add to the main overall story line - the length of this novel is not troublesome, it is the time spent on the main story that bothers me - and the time on the 'relationship' between Mara and Kevin yet he always spends months away from his friends and forgets them until he gets into a fight with Mara - that is so contrived and such a forgetful friend and kinsman - I want to strangle Kevin with every ounce of strength that I have left that I instead used to close this my FINAL chapter of this trilogy - and unless the next trilogy gets better, I may be saying farewell to the Riftwar cycle very soon - Good beginnings do not excuse bad story telling and over long plot lines.