If you find the same problems as you did with Magician, then you are unlikely to enjoy any of this particular saga. Feist's books, then the books set in Kelewan (the Empire trilogy) are very good and separate from the others.Īny of these should help you decide whether you want to read more of the Saga or not. McKiernan, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Diana L. Cherryh, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Philip Jose Farmer, Jody Lynn Nye, John Brunner, Dennis L. If you want to continue exploring the Riftwar books (for what it's worth, Magician is in my opinion the best of all the Riftwar books) then I suggest you move to Prince of the Blood (Pug and Tomas are not particularly involved it's fairly standalone) or even to Shadow of a Dark Queen (set a while later, a new set of characters for the most part, a decent introduction to the larger story that comes later).Īlternatively, if you are interested in the setting but not necessarily in Raymond E. Publication Order of Standalone Novels Faerie Tale (1988) Publication Order of Thieves' World Books (with C.J. Magician was originally published in 1982. Originally reduced in size by his editors, it was re-published in 1992 (after the authors fame had grown) in an edition titled 'The Authors Preferred Edition' (or 'revised edition' in some markets) with much of the deleted text restored. If you read A Darkness at Sethanon without having read Silverthorn, there will be several key characters that you don't know, and very important plot points that aren't explained as well as they should be. It is the first book of the Riftwar Saga and of the wider Riftwar Cycle. It led to many books written by Feist in the world of Midkemia, which was the setting for this book. The original three books are like many trilogies, in that the first book can stand alone, but the second and third books work together to tell a larger story.

Riftwar saga book order