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Voor de poorten van het duister
(The Demonwar Saga #2)
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Als een machtige demon en een oude bekende, de kranzinnige Belasco, de handen ineen slaan, staan Puc en zijn getrouwen aan de vooravond van de bloedigste strijd die hun wereld ooit trof. Lange tijd is het onzeker of Puc en zijn medestanders - en met hen Midkemia - deze laatste slag zullen overleven...
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
July 2010
by Luitingh Fantasy
(first published December 1st 2009)
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Mar 06, 2020
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At the Gates of Darkness is the last book in the Demonwar Saga, the second-to-last subseries in the very large Riftwar Cycle. Only 3 books left.
This was better than the previous book, where I complained that the large amounts of recaps in the first half became tedious and boring. This book had minimal recaps and more action, and I did enjoy the story, but for some reason I never became as engrossed in it as I have with many of the other books in the series. I did enjoy it, though. There were som ...more
This was better than the previous book, where I complained that the large amounts of recaps in the first half became tedious and boring. This book had minimal recaps and more action, and I did enjoy the story, but for some reason I never became as engrossed in it as I have with many of the other books in the series. I did enjoy it, though. There were som ...more
May 12, 2019
Bradley
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Well, I have to admit this book tickled so many of my fancies. I mean, big magic, bigger magic, OP characters, and enough demons to fill several realms AND we get to learn even more about them. :)
This is a FAR cry from some of the earlier novels that started small and stayed small. The storytelling might have a lot more nuance, but if you're missing the big blow-outs, just look here. An interesting if slightly providential new character introduced in the previous novel continues to shed some lig ...more
This is a FAR cry from some of the earlier novels that started small and stayed small. The storytelling might have a lot more nuance, but if you're missing the big blow-outs, just look here. An interesting if slightly providential new character introduced in the previous novel continues to shed some lig ...more
I really hate the way all fantasy series need to be trilogies these days. When this happens, you end up with things like this book, a placeholder where nothing particularly interesting happens. This book, and others like it, are designed to kind of tread water until the author can pull together a decent end to a trilogy.
Anyway, that's kind of a meta-complaint. My specific complaints about this book in particular are 1) that it is boring, 2) that it is really short, 3) that things that seemed li ...more
Anyway, that's kind of a meta-complaint. My specific complaints about this book in particular are 1) that it is boring, 2) that it is really short, 3) that things that seemed li ...more
...Although the books of Feist have never been at the high end of the scale when it comes to literary quality, his early work was first step into the fantasy genre for me. His novels gave me a taste of fantasy before tackling the heavy-hitters of speculative fiction. At the Gates of Darkness however, is nowhere near Feist's best. The story is more or less what we've come to expect from him but the execution is sloppy and feels rushed. From the Demonwar books I really get the impression Feist can
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Aug 14, 2009
This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For
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This was an ok read, apparently finishing a two book arc in Midkemia. It tied up the story fairly well, almost surprisingly in some sense. However, I also find Feist's writing to continue to degrade and I may have to just give up on him at some point.
One of the biggest issues is the book had extremely poor editing. There were at least two occasions on which I just shook my head at very basic errors in the text. One toward the end was particularly impressive: a group of about 9 people splits into ...more
One of the biggest issues is the book had extremely poor editing. There were at least two occasions on which I just shook my head at very basic errors in the text. One toward the end was particularly impressive: a group of about 9 people splits into ...more
Dreadful - I'll admit that I actually stopped reading this book a bit less than halfway through. If Magician had been this bad, Feist would never have been published. Magician still rates in my top one or two fantasy books of all time, and prior to this, I've read all of Feist's work. Barring some sort of spectacular return to form, however, I believe this book marks the last work by Feist that I'll read.
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The only reason I finished this book is because I have read all the others in the entire series. I will power through the rest of the books in the series, but I will never reread any of them past Talon of the Silver Hawk ever again...for some reason it was there that the whole setting took a turn for the worst.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Another reasonably enjoyable outing for Pug and his various friends in this book. I actually enjoyed it more than some others as it was captivating and nice to get to know some of the newer characters in a bit more depth. This book also has the added bonus of a lack of unnecessary deaths.
My only real gripe in this book is that it's a little anti-climactic. The story moves through at a good pace without ever getting boring but then it just sort of ends with everyone knowing what needs to be done ...more
My only real gripe in this book is that it's a little anti-climactic. The story moves through at a good pace without ever getting boring but then it just sort of ends with everyone knowing what needs to be done ...more
Another classic book onto the next!
I liked the multiple stories during the first half of the book and how they intertwined towards the end.
I will hopefully finish this huge series by February!
Happy reading
Hannah xoxo
I will hopefully finish this huge series by February!
Happy reading
Hannah xoxo
Oh, Raymond E Feist with your sprawling Riftwar saga, how do I love thee? Well, not hugely with this effort. When Ray started his epic I eagerly devoured Magician, Silverthorn and Darkness at Sethanon; the one-off novels and the serpentwar saga. I have read damn near everything set in this world and I love it but, I have to say that this book is underwhelming and far too reliant on people remembering characters from the previous books. With King's Buccaneer and Prince of the Blood, you still had
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I love Raymond Feist. At the same time, I find his later books regularly peppered with continuity errors (was the the elf or the dwarf talking? Who was it getting punched that time?), and large sections of seat-of-the pants writing that belongs in a first draft. Pug and his crew are supposed to be really smart, but they fall backwards through obvious clues, and in the final battles, wander from place to place with no plan, depending on Pug's super-magic to save the day. This book was one of the
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May 22, 2010
Linda Isakson
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Great continuation of the Demonwar Saga. In this book, which I think takes place about one year after "Rides a Dread Legion", an agent of Pug's Conclave of the Shadows, Jim Dasher, stumbles upon the remnants of a horrific and bloody ritual used to summon demons. Reporting his finding back to the Conclave, Pug, Magnus, Amirantha, Sandreena, Gulamendis, Laromendis and others continue their search into the archives of the past to try and find out exactly wh ...more
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Great continuation of the Demonwar Saga. In this book, which I think takes place about one year after "Rides a Dread Legion", an agent of Pug's Conclave of the Shadows, Jim Dasher, stumbles upon the remnants of a horrific and bloody ritual used to summon demons. Reporting his finding back to the Conclave, Pug, Magnus, Amirantha, Sandreena, Gulamendis, Laromendis and others continue their search into the archives of the past to try and find out exactly wh ...more
I wish I had the books in between this series and the initial 4 books Feist wrote about Midkemia and Pug, but sadly our public library only has bits and pieces of most authors' series. I did at least get to read the first book in this trilogy, and Feist does a pretty good job of filling in readers who have missed earlier books in the sequence.
In this trilogy Pug and his friends are faced with a whole branch of magic and magical creatures beyond Pug's knowledge and understanding, demons that hav ...more
In this trilogy Pug and his friends are faced with a whole branch of magic and magical creatures beyond Pug's knowledge and understanding, demons that hav ...more
To protect their world the Black Sorcerer Pug and Midkemia's clandestine protectors the Conclave of Shadows forged an uneasy alliance of formidable magical talent's.Together they defeated Maarg the brutal Demon King and turned back the on rushing death tide. But Maarg's fall has not stopped the demonic onslaught. The fearsome Demo Dahun and the mad Ne cromaneer Belasco have joined force,s creating an unstoppable union of deathly black magic,s that even Pug and a united conclave may not be strong
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This is probably the weakest of all of Feist’s rift war books. The good: as usual his characters are amazing. Well written, well rounded characters that you grow to love quickly. It’s not a bad story either. The expansion of the Sidi character into his three brothers and their back story is great. The bad: The Star Elves are the focus of the previous book in this two part series but they just fade away to nothing by the end of this. There’s no resolution to their story or even much attention giv
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Once again Raymond Feist reminds me why he's my favorite Fantasy genre author. By killing off main characters, and by having a plot, only his serious followers would understand after reading all of his novels with his beloved PUG as the main character. I would equate reading this book to seeing "Empire Strikes Back," plot twists, and secrets all revealed. Loved it!
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While I simply adore Raymond Feist's works, it appears he phoned this one in.
Sure, there was some good stuff. The new characters were mildly interesting and the big battle at the end, while a bit confusing, did hold my interest. But this book simply lacked the hallmark captivating story that I've come to expect from a great author like Feist. ...more
Sure, there was some good stuff. The new characters were mildly interesting and the big battle at the end, while a bit confusing, did hold my interest. But this book simply lacked the hallmark captivating story that I've come to expect from a great author like Feist. ...more
Just see my review of part one. I just don't see why Feist himself keeps writing stuff about increasingly powerfull enemy's for pug while he's strong point was creating down to earth characters and throwing them into the madness.
Anyway, after 12 years or so since I first read a Feist and all those books I will finish it so 3 more books to go ...more
Anyway, after 12 years or so since I first read a Feist and all those books I will finish it so 3 more books to go ...more
I hope that one day Feist will return to writing full novels as opposed to these episodic style page turners
The conclusion to the demon-war series (of 2 books) holds the interest of the previous book and resolves the main conflict, leaving some plot threads dangling for future books. Good but not great.
This book just meandered slowly to a mundane conclusion. It feels like the the author isn't that interested in this world anymore.
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I was so glad that I have read this!
I don't know what the matter is with so many of the reviewers of this book - they've either not read the entire series, so haven't a clue what's really going on, or they think, for some erroneous reason, that they are better writers than Raymond E Feist is, and so have the right to criticize his writing!
This second book of the Demonwar Saga was a page turner from beginning to end for me and, far from going away from his style of writing that he has had from th ...more
I don't know what the matter is with so many of the reviewers of this book - they've either not read the entire series, so haven't a clue what's really going on, or they think, for some erroneous reason, that they are better writers than Raymond E Feist is, and so have the right to criticize his writing!
This second book of the Demonwar Saga was a page turner from beginning to end for me and, far from going away from his style of writing that he has had from th ...more
Apparently I've already reviewed this book. A demon must have been controlling me when I did, because I have no memory of (a) having read it before or (b) having written a review of it before.
As I said of the first instalment of The Demonwar Saga, this demon invasion plot is getting a bit old now. How many more times will Midkemia be targeted by demons or other non-human invaders?
What kept me going was the fact that I love some of these characters - Pug, Miranda, Magnus, the twin elves Laromendi ...more
As I said of the first instalment of The Demonwar Saga, this demon invasion plot is getting a bit old now. How many more times will Midkemia be targeted by demons or other non-human invaders?
What kept me going was the fact that I love some of these characters - Pug, Miranda, Magnus, the twin elves Laromendi ...more
Apparently I've already reviewed this book. A demon must have been controlling me when I did, because I have no memory of (a) having read it before or (b) having written a review of it before.
As I said of the first instalment of The Demonwar Saga, this demon invasion plot is getting a bit old now. How many more times will Midkemia be targeted by demons or other non-human invaders?
What kept me going was the fact that I love some of these characters - Pug, Miranda, Magnus, the twin elves Laromendi ...more
As I said of the first instalment of The Demonwar Saga, this demon invasion plot is getting a bit old now. How many more times will Midkemia be targeted by demons or other non-human invaders?
What kept me going was the fact that I love some of these characters - Pug, Miranda, Magnus, the twin elves Laromendi ...more
I have been Buddy-Reading this series over the last couple of months with a ‘book-club’ friend who had not read Raymond E. Feist’s work before. As I have been a long-time fan of his work, I have compared it to The Lord of the Rings books but have actually enjoyed this series more. When I mentioned this to my friend, she immediately wanted to read the series, and convinced me to read them with her- not that it was a big ask 😊.
It is an epic action-packed fantasy saga- with wonderful world buildin ...more
Really gripping conclusion to this part of the story. I'm enjoying the new characters, although not so much Sandreena who is overly portrayed as an emotional, scorned lover. She's a badass as well, but the female characters are all a little disappointing in his books, I find. Only Mara was really amazing and he wrote that with a female author. Otherwise this was an excellent story. Pug and Magnus are still grieving and demons are once again on the menu. The series is definitely leading to an epi
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Getting closer and closer to the end of this long series that spans over generations of time. A huge world that is amazingly built over the many books. Some great characters and some not so great too. In this set there were some good characters but this book I just couldn't get into the way I have some others in the series. I don't know if it's that I just don't want to attach to characters any longer after so many that I have loved that are long gone in the time line or something else.
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Aug 04, 2019
Lance Schonberg
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This would have been a star higher up until a chapter or so before the end when we took a big break from the colliding events for who we thought was the big bad (and who wasn't, exactly) to explain what was really going on for several pages.
Yup, the villain brought us all into the loop by monologuing. ...more
Yup, the villain brought us all into the loop by monologuing. ...more
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Raymond E. Feist was born Raymond E. Gonzales III, but took his adoptive step-father's surname when his mother remarried Felix E. Feist. He graduated with a B.A. in Communication Arts with Honors in 1977 from the University of California at San Diego. During that year Feist had some ideas for a novel about a boy who would be a magician. He wrote the novel two years later, and it was published in 1
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