A review by meliemelo
Maîtresse de l'Empire by Raymond E. Feist

4.0

The setting and the way it evolves remain very interesting in this third book, with not so many new characters but that dwells on previously known ones instead... which, for once, I didn't think was such a good thing. What I really liked in the first book was Mara's character, and the way the story lingered on her and how she managed to take charge and solve her problems. In the second and third books however, the men seem to take over (I believe we see more of their various points of views than of Mara's) and we lose that "feminist" side of the story, which is really a shame. Did Mara really need Kevin to "make her a woman" ? (That sentence had me grind my teeths every single time). I'm not saying that she couldn't have done everything without everyone else's help, but was it necessary to dwell so much on it, as if all that Mara brought with her were her "evolved" ideas and some resolutions ?

However we did see a lot of Mara so I'm still pretty happy with this book, it's just that some parts seemed unnecessary in my opinion.