I found the characters underdeveloped and this meant that I couldn't really identify with and empathise with them. The story seemed to drag on interminably and I found myself becoming exasperated and skimming more and more pages in an almost desperate bid to finish it and move on to something better. To be honest, I wish I had read the original version. This book was originally reduced in size by it's editors, but re-published in 1992 in an edition entitled 'The Author's Preferred Edition' which has seen much of the original text restored. Pug and his friend Tomas are swept up into the conflict which lasts for many years. Suddenly the Kingdom is overrun by alien invaders who have come through a rift from another world.
Pug, a young orphan boy with undeveloped powers is apprenticed to a master magician in Crydee, a frontier outpost in the Kingdom of the Isles. This is the first book in the 'Riftwar Cycle', first published in 1982.
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