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A review by losgiraffee
Serpent Mage by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
5.0
Easily the best book in the series thus far in my opinion. However, at this point the series can take a nasty dip into the not-so-great realm. The beginning of the story lands you with Alfred instead of Haplo (unless you count the VERY beginning, in which case you're technically reading the journal of a completely new character) and dives you directly into the action. Best way to do it in my opinion.
BUUUUTTTT with that being said, the same basic story has been told in four ways now. We have visited all four of the worlds that Haplo was supposed to visit, and in each he finds the races are in turmoil with one another, he debates following orders on not interfering with what's going on, he interferes anyways, and he tells himself next time he will do better. Same shit, different world. I have seriously enjoyed each telling, but it's been used up. Done. Fizzled out. Where the series goes next will make or break the rest of the story arc.
Overall, the world building was as solid as the prior volumes, the characters were interesting, and it seems that MW and TH enjoy creating a love connection and then The water dragons were probably the least cool dragon so far...my favorite was the MOTHER EFFING LAVA DRAGON!! Not that it much matters. The dragons have had little to no part of the story all the way through, excluding this particular book, in which case they were the antagonist.
Solid, enjoyable read. Curious/nervous about the path the story will follow from here on out. Excited to start the next volume. Ready.... GO!
BUUUUTTTT with that being said, the same basic story has been told in four ways now. We have visited all four of the worlds that Haplo was supposed to visit, and in each he finds the races are in turmoil with one another, he debates following orders on not interfering with what's going on, he interferes anyways, and he tells himself next time he will do better. Same shit, different world. I have seriously enjoyed each telling, but it's been used up. Done. Fizzled out. Where the series goes next will make or break the rest of the story arc.
Overall, the world building was as solid as the prior volumes, the characters were interesting, and it seems that MW and TH enjoy creating a love connection and then
Spoiler
killing off the character(s). Literally every book so far....Solid, enjoyable read. Curious/nervous about the path the story will follow from here on out. Excited to start the next volume. Ready.... GO!