[Swiftyboy2k4]

After finishing the Riftwar trilogy, should I go on to read Prince of the Blood and Kings Buccaneer or go onto the Serpent books?

Thanks

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Yes, you should read Prince of the Blood and the King's Buccaneer before you read the Serpent War Sage. Also, you should try the Empire trilogy, it takes place on kelewan during the riftwar period. Very entertaining.

[Zedar]

If you are planning on reading the Empire trilogy, I would recommend reading that before you read the Kings Buccaneer, as this is set after the trilogy and contains spoilers for how it concludes.

[Kazhan]

Read Empire before continuing - best books of Feist in my opinion!

[aminge37]

I'm in the same spot as you, but instead of continuing with his books I decided to take a break from Feist for a bit (not that I didn't like him, I just think it's a good idea to change authors frequently) and start The Wheel of Time. But when I come back to Feist I'm planning on reading the Empire Trilogy. Just go to his Wikipedia page and read the books in the order they are listed there.

[Justin2209]

Here is a great link I used to establish my reading order. I read all of his books the first part of this year and this really helped. I would agree with the above posts that the Empire trilogy is the best of the series. I did really enjoy the other books though.

http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/reading-order/alternate (http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/reading-order/alternate)

[mjolnir]

Aye, the Empire Trilogy before Prince of the Blood and The King's Buccaneer, I think, if you want to go in chronological order. Feist also went back later and filled in some of the space between A Darkness At Sethanon and Prince of the Blood with an entirely gratuitous series called The Riftwar Legacy, and you may want to read this after the Empire books, [which I'll just mention he coauthored with Wurtz, in case you get confused when looking them up], and before Prince of the Blood, as they take place prior to that novel. Imo you should read them only if you're bent on reading all things Feist, though, as the first one, called Krondor: The Betrayal, is one of the worst novels I have ever read by Feist or anybody else. I wouldn't recommend skipping directly on to The Serpentwar whatever you do, as several plotpoints in The King's Buccaneer act as setup for those novels. Confused yet?
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[Irrelevant]

What's sad about Krondor: The Betrayal is that it is based on a really awesome video game. I started reading Feist because of that game. I haven't read the book, but adapting a video game to novel form is pretty dumb.

Although, I remember reading the Blaster Master book when I was a kid (I think they made 7 of these Nintendo inspired books) and looking back on it, it's hilariously bad. The story: a kid chases his pet frog who's running away, it gets into some radioactive waste laying around in the yard and jumps down a hole. The boy follows and can't find his frog but instead a heavily armored tank that can jump. So he gets in his tank and tracks down that frog. Someone made a book of that. Track it down.

[Arrgh]

It's been a while and I don't recall exactly where he started to go south so what's the just stop here because Feist starts to suck after this one book?

[mjolnir]

Arrgh, I think you'll get a lot of different answers on that one from a lot of different people. Myself I'd say that Feist's output never got a whole lot better than the original Riftwar Cycle, excepting the Empire Trilogy which I've not yet read but is apparently spectacular. As for when the actual suckage set in ... well, The Riftwar Legacy was written later and so the rot most certainly applies. [Plus, as Irrelevant said, writing a book based directly on a game just don't work; completely different storytelling mediums.] I'd say that it's after the for the most part quite solid Serpentwar, and arguably including the last book of that series Shards of a Broken Crown, that the whole thing descends to the point where it could justifiably be called an unreadable mess. Whole swaths of all the books in The Conclave of Shadows and The Darkwar are physically painful, and I'd advise just staying away. Wrath of a Mad God was a bit better, but imo it's far, far too little quite a bit too late. On one particular point, though, Feist went down hill far earlier, and that is his portrayal of women. The extraordinarily under-characterized, promiscuous-for-no-reason female characters showed up first in Prince of the Blood, and have never really gone away again.
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