Flight of the Nighthawks by Raymond Feist

In Flight of the Nighthawks, there are numerous storylines going at once. They all converge together as the sorcerer, Pug, and his Conclave of Shadows group of magicians and various undercover agents attempts to thwart a plot to destroy the government of Kesh, the most powerful nation in their world. It all starts when powerful nobles in Kesh began to drop like flies. Meanwhile there are rumors that the brothers who are in the line of succession of the emperor are prepared to fight it out for the throne, even though they seem to get along quite well.



There was much that I enjoyed about this novel. It moved along at a quick pace. There was lots of intrigue and action. It wasn’t overly burdened by long descriptions of setting or complex world building, and the quality of the writing was good. On that basis, I give this novel a thumbs up. I thought starting off with the first novel in a series would mean that I wouldn’t have an issue following it since there were no other preceding novels to catch up on. However, even though this was the first in the series, apparently there was a whole lot of other related novels that I never read, since it felt as if half of the time I was missing out on things since there was so much backstory that I was unfamiliar with, and the explanations of what was happening wasn’t always sufficient to figure it all out. Despite that, I was still able to enjoy the novel and would recommend it even if you hadn’t read the other entries in the series.