8: “ Remembering that the man had mentioned having a master, Pug suspected he was a franklin, one who lived on the estate of a landholder.” – a freeholder who was not of noble birth. This Review on LibraryThing | This Book on LibraryThing | This Book on Amazon If you’ve really exhausted everything else out there, I’d think twice about re-reading some of it before starting this one. Recommendation: There’s other epic fantasy out there that’s so much more complex, more mature, and better written. I’ll probably pull the next book in the series off the shelf at some point, but only because this one leaves things remarkably unfinished – Pug’s story is dropped 200 pages before the end and never returned to, and I’d like to know what happened to him – but unless the writing style matures, and sharpish, I have the feeling it’s going to be somewhat of a trial to read. For example: “The elves lived apart from the society of men, and their ways were thought strange and magical.” That’s not particularly egregious on its own, but the thing is: the whole book’s like that. But a good story is not enough to save it from wooden and dimensionless characters, some unbelievable dialogue, and writing that ranges from serviceable but bland to stilted and awkwardly phrased, to sounding painfully like it was written by a junior-highschooler.

For the most part, this book did tell a pretty exciting story, although the focus shifts about 2/3s of the way through from Pug’s adventures to much more military-focused action with some peripheral characters. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Robert Jordan’s A Wheel of Time novels as though it was their equal. Review: I am having a hard time understanding how this series frequently gets referred to as one of the great epic fantasy series, how it gets held up along side George R. And chances are, he’ll need it, since his country is being invaded – not by enemies across the sea, but by aliens from another universe, pouring into his country through a rift in the fabric of space-time and bent on conquest.

Pug struggles with his studies, but there are indications that he may have magical power beyond reckoning.

Summary: Pug is a thirteen-year-old orphan kitchen boy when circumstances find him apprenticed to Kulgan, the magician advisor to the Duke of Crydee. Magician: Apprentice (Author’s Preferred Edition) by Raymond E.

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