Magician Apprentice Volume 1 Premiere

Hardcover, 168 pages

English language

Published May 30, 2007 by Marvel Comics.

ISBN:
978-0-7851-2587-7
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3 stars (4 reviews)

An orphaned kitchen boy named Pug becomes selected as the Kingdom of Midkemia's apprentice to the local sorcerer. A rift opens between this world and another and a great war rages between the two. Pug is captured and a secret magic within him discovered as that war between the two planets continues. There is great magic, fantasy and personal connections between memorable characters.

16 editions

A fine re-read

3 stars

My mother got me the Riftwar Cycle back in the 80s and as a good D&D fan I fell on them greedily. Feist's storytelling is workmanlike but effective; he's not going to surprise you with his plots or wow you with poetic prose, but he has built an interesting low-fantasy world (with some VERY high-fantasy elements thrown in) and tells a sprawling-but-coherent story. Some people have called him a hack, but if he is, he's the good kind of hack - not an "artiste," but certainly an effective professional writer who can knock out a "ripping yarn" (in his own not-so-modest assessment of his story) that does what it sets out to do, which is entertain you and nothing more.

I have re-read Magician: Apprentice and the other Riftwar books from time to time in the last thirty-five years and always enjoyed them. They aren't high art, nor were they …

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