A review by ineffablebob
Shards of a Broken Crown by Raymond E. Feist

3.0

The first 80% of Shards of a Broken Crown is pretty good. Multi-front military campaign, build up of big enemy threats, getting to know characters as they go from one danger to the next. But in the last few chapters it felt like things just sort of fizzled. Sure, the good guys end up with a win (if you think that's a spoiler, you're reading the wrong genre), but it doesn't feel like they expend any real effort doing so. You can tell way in advance who are the really important characters that will survive, and who is going to be collateral damage. The whole book felt like it was tacked on as an afterthought.