![]() I’m going to try and get this over with in one sentence, so here goes: in this case, the magical McGuffin is a rare plant called Silverthorn which the elves can distill into an antidote in order to save a princess who was poisoned at her own wedding during a failed assassination attempt by a secret Order collaborating with an ancient evil capable of making the dead rise and who also happens to be plotting the destruction of the world. an ever-expanding search for a magical McGuffin. ![]() I imagine everyone who reads it expects even bigger and better things from its sequel, Silverthorn, or at the very least something just as good as Magician.Īs it is, the majority of the book feels like nothing more than a cheap D&D quest, i.e. ![]() Although it’s not without faults, it exemplifies much of what makes classic fantasy so awesome. ![]() Feist’s first novel, Magician, is a sweeping epic spanning two worlds, twelve years and one devastating war. ![]()
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