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Title: Short Advance.
Review: As the title suggests, Rise of a Merchant Prince is primarily about Roo Avery. Much of the first novel is about Erik, though Roo is there in most of the novel. To me 'Rise' has many plot twists that are too convient and sudden: Erik suddenly pulled out of the main story, Roo's father in law's murder, and even the ending. In terms of advancing the plot in the series, maybe a third of the novel is devoted to it. It felt like the novel took awhile to really go and when it did, it barely went anywhere. The ending feels very arbitrary and unnatural. While I plan on reading the rest of the series, I can only hope they are better than this one. Roo is a more complicated character than most of Feist's characters in having a different set of morals than most of his usual characters that are usually easy to guess their actions. I have to give Fiest credit for trying new things with his characters.
