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Loading... Mistress of the Empireby Raymond E. FeistSeries: The Empire Trilogy (3), The Riftwar Cycle (The Empire Trilogy, Book 3), The Riftwar Cycle, Chronological (10)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  maketest | Aug 26, 2009 |  A good conclusion to the Empire trilogy. (  ) xavierroy | Jul 26, 2009 | I found this third volume of the trilogy the most boring and trite of the three. I ended up skimming the second half. The ending was so goody goody. This trilogy had been recommended by the author Bernard Cornwall on his website so I thought it would be much better than it was. (  ) lindawwilson | Feb 5, 2009 | Vast, epic conclusion to the Empire series tying up all the loose ends so dramatically ripped free by Pug in Magician so long ago. After her promotion to Servant of the Empire, Mara has been enjoying a few years of peaceful life. Still missing her barbarian lover Kevin, she has married and is comfortable and secure. Her heir is growing up and enjoying the freedoms she has one for him. When he is cruelly murdered in an obscure act of politics, Mara realises that she can no longer ignore the contradictions inhernt in the Tsuarmi codes of honour - Kevin's irreverant point of view begins to make sense. However her acts are bulked by the Great Ones who don't uphold change. Mara considers what no-one else in the Empire has ever done, is ti possible to defy the Great Ones and survive? This is a very long book, but unlike the preceeding volume, it never feels like it. Completely gripping all the way through. Intricately detailed, absorbingly complex, wonderfully told it has everything, struggles, greed, honour and redemption, and a great big massive climactic finish. There are one or two very minor plot issues - why don't the Great Ones notice Mara being saved from the Cho-Ja hive? and a couple of other instances of the Great Ones not being either as clever or as powerful as a reader might expect - but this is probably deliberate because they are intended to be only human, unlike Pug. The other discordant note is that our westernised concepts are inherently better than other world views held by other cultures - I don't think that this series, unlike some fantasy, intends to cast a shadow against the real world, but if it did the message would be clear. Don't be scared by the number of words. Go and read it. (  ) reading_fox | Jan 17, 2008 | Once again a target. Mara, now a woman of power and influence again finds herself under attack once more. Her family, in the form of her more vulnerable children are targets. This involves a lot of work for her spymaster, and provokes a greater conflict within Tsurani society, with Mara on one side and the magic wielding Great Ones and the Emperor and more conservative elements on one side, in a battle for control. 2.5 out of 5 http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/10... (  ) bluetyson | Oct 28, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553561189, Paperback)The world on the other side of the rift: Kelewan, a land seething with political intrigue and deadly conspiracies. Following the opulent panoply of Daughter Of The Empire and the dazzling pageantry of Servant Of The Empire comes the resounding conclusion to the Empire trilogy.Besieged by spies and rival houses, stalked by a secret and merciless brotherhood of assassins, the brilliant Lady Mara of the Acoma faces the most deadly challenge she has ever known. The fearsome Black Robes see Mara as the ultimate threat to their ancient power. In search of allies who will join her against them, Mara must travel beyond civilization's borders and even into the hives of the alien cho-ja. As those near and dear to her fall victim to many enemies, Mara cries out for vengeance. Drawing on all of her courage and guile she prepares to fight her greatest battle of all--for her life, her home, and the Empire itself. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Mara, now a woman of power and influence again finds herself under attack once more. Her family, in the form of her more vulnerable children are targets.
This involves a lot of work for her spymaster, and provokes a greater conflict within Tsurani society, with Mara on one side and the magic wielding Great Ones and the Emperor and more conservative elements on one side, in a battle for control.
2.5 out of 5
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