Feast of Souls (The Magister Trilogy #1) 
1.5/5; 2 stars; C-I finally finished this book, but, sadly, only because my garden is so freaking huge that it took me about 10 hours to weed it and I just left the audiobook running while I worked. I know a lot of people loved this story but it did not grab me. I couldn't really feel connected to any of the characters and couldn't get excited about the plot. I started this book last year and tried a few times to get into it. I should have just let it go.
Very good epic fantasy that gets out of its own way. Only the basic world building frees the reader to invest in plot and characters.http://www.staffersbookreview.com/201...

Oh, C.S. Friedman. Your name stirs up nostalgia and memories of hours spent curled up in an old worn armchair. I used to adore your books. It seems like only yesterday that my friend told me to pick up Black Sun Rising because he thought that I would like it. He was right. I remember voraciously devouring When True Night Falls and Crown of Shadows and wanting more. In Conquest Born blew me away and This Alien Shore left me agog. True, The Madness Season was a little different, and I
I just finished the audio version of this book. C.S. Friedman is one of my favorite authors. She does dark fantasy like it's meant to be done. Plus, she has a way with scratching my itch for an antihero like no author author can manage. This isn't her best trilogy (I think that honor goes to the Black Sun Rising series), but it's pretty close. I love her writing. I love her characterization, and her complex world building. Perhaps the thing that caught me the most about this book that I never
Just finished this and I'm pretty pumped about starting the 2nd book in the series. It seems like the first really original fantasy book that I've read in a long while. It's actually NOT about some amazingly all-powerful magical object that can only be wielded by one person in the entire world, who must then take it across the realm to some dark and terrible place. Madness. I guess if I have to compare it to another fantasy series it would be George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire but so far
9/10Dark fantasy, layered characters, and a more complex plot than it first appears to be. Favorite characters? Colivar, Gwynofar, and the Witch-Queen. I plan to read the rest of the series in the coming months.
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Original Title: | Feast of Souls (The Magister Trilogy, #1) |
ISBN: | 0756404320 (ISBN13: 9780756404321) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | The Magister Trilogy #1 |
Characters: | Andovan, Kamala |
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At the end of her bestselling Coldfire trilogy, C.S. Friedman challenged readers to imagine what a world would be like if sorcery required the ultimate sacrifice-that of life itself. Now, in Feast of Souls, she introduces us to a terrifying world in which the cost of magic is just that...in which the fuel for sorcery is the very fire of the human spirit, and those who hunger for magical power must pay for it with their lives. In this epic tale of nightmarish shadows and desperate hope, the greatest threat of all may not be that of ancient enemies returned, or ancient wars resumed, but of the darkness that lies within the hearts of men.Define Epithetical Books Feast of Souls (The Magister Trilogy #1)
Title | : | Feast of Souls (The Magister Trilogy #1) |
Author | : | C.S. Friedman |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 464 pages |
Published | : | January 2nd 2007 by DAW (first published 2007) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy. Dark Fantasy |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 5363 Users | 343 ReviewsJudgment Epithetical Books Feast of Souls (The Magister Trilogy #1)
DNF. The book isn't horrible, but I couldn't take the misandry in it anymore. Besides, the main character is terribly frustrating. Weirdly, this novel was written in 2007, this is stuff I would expect in 2018. I keep seeing female readers complaining about male writers drawing attention to female body parts/ bad representation and calling it sexist, but frankly I find self-loathing in regards to one's gender a tad more problematic and sexist. Yet I see nobody complain when 90% of female heroine1.5/5; 2 stars; C-I finally finished this book, but, sadly, only because my garden is so freaking huge that it took me about 10 hours to weed it and I just left the audiobook running while I worked. I know a lot of people loved this story but it did not grab me. I couldn't really feel connected to any of the characters and couldn't get excited about the plot. I started this book last year and tried a few times to get into it. I should have just let it go.
Very good epic fantasy that gets out of its own way. Only the basic world building frees the reader to invest in plot and characters.http://www.staffersbookreview.com/201...

Oh, C.S. Friedman. Your name stirs up nostalgia and memories of hours spent curled up in an old worn armchair. I used to adore your books. It seems like only yesterday that my friend told me to pick up Black Sun Rising because he thought that I would like it. He was right. I remember voraciously devouring When True Night Falls and Crown of Shadows and wanting more. In Conquest Born blew me away and This Alien Shore left me agog. True, The Madness Season was a little different, and I
I just finished the audio version of this book. C.S. Friedman is one of my favorite authors. She does dark fantasy like it's meant to be done. Plus, she has a way with scratching my itch for an antihero like no author author can manage. This isn't her best trilogy (I think that honor goes to the Black Sun Rising series), but it's pretty close. I love her writing. I love her characterization, and her complex world building. Perhaps the thing that caught me the most about this book that I never
Just finished this and I'm pretty pumped about starting the 2nd book in the series. It seems like the first really original fantasy book that I've read in a long while. It's actually NOT about some amazingly all-powerful magical object that can only be wielded by one person in the entire world, who must then take it across the realm to some dark and terrible place. Madness. I guess if I have to compare it to another fantasy series it would be George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire but so far
9/10Dark fantasy, layered characters, and a more complex plot than it first appears to be. Favorite characters? Colivar, Gwynofar, and the Witch-Queen. I plan to read the rest of the series in the coming months.
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