Title: Not a Top 100 book
Product review: I bought this book because I noticed it on NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy books list (#66), and because a friend recommended it. Perhaps I have been spoiled by reading George R. R. Martin lately, but everything about Feist's book rang untrue: the plot devices, the character actions and dialog, the jarring names. There were a few too many similarities to Tolkien (dwarven mines, elven tree cities, a golden talking dragon). I wondered whether it was supposed to be young adult fiction, but even in that case the writing would have to be considered poor.To be fair, the NPR list cites "The Riftwar Saga" and not this specific book, so maybe the author's writing improves in later books of the series. Unfortunately this book was not compelling enough for me to continue with the rest of the saga.
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