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A review by nafisa_tabassum
Serpent Mage by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
4.0
This is the best book of this series I have read so far. Much more gripping. Much more insightful. It's so unpredictable! I had no idea where the story was going and I was hooked, even if it tired me sometimes to keep up with the consistently fast pace. It's really good.
Alfred and Haplo develop further. They have become memorable characters, deep and different. They are not VERY realistic, but they're close to it and by far the most complex characters in the whole book. There was also that really interesting portrayal of good in evil and evil in good. There was that villainous , fearful, unreasonable Sartan and there's Haplo and descriptions of close-knit, kick-ass Patryns.
The above points were about this book individually. If I were to rate the whole series so far, I'd give it four stars. The plot's complex, and the worlds are very innovative. I have to marvel at these four completely different and reasonably detailed worlds the authors have created. I mean, wow. Sure, making four worlds, they couldn't give loads of detail to each but what they managed to cram in is admirable. All the worlds are so diverse! It was a lot of fun to explore each and compare them.
Alfred and Haplo develop further. They have become memorable characters, deep and different. They are not VERY realistic, but they're close to it and by far the most complex characters in the whole book. There was also that really interesting portrayal of good in evil and evil in good. There was that villainous , fearful, unreasonable Sartan and there's Haplo and descriptions of close-knit, kick-ass Patryns.
The above points were about this book individually. If I were to rate the whole series so far, I'd give it four stars. The plot's complex, and the worlds are very innovative. I have to marvel at these four completely different and reasonably detailed worlds the authors have created. I mean, wow. Sure, making four worlds, they couldn't give loads of detail to each but what they managed to cram in is admirable. All the worlds are so diverse! It was a lot of fun to explore each and compare them.