![]() ![]() It’s fun stuff, though it’s almost entirely unconnected from the grand ‘stop the end of the universe’ narrative. Meanwhile there’s a Kingdom civil war going on, with Prince Hal, his brothers, Ty Hawkins and Jimmy the Hand III fighting to ensure the succession goes as planned. Pug get to meet his old teacher Kulgan again Nakor gets Prince Borric – it’s another throwback to the series’ past, and helps add to the love-letter aspect of this whole trilogy and particularly this book. But as the ‘lessons’ each magician learns are taught by characters from the series’ past, I can’t help but enjoy this bit. On an objective level, this whole arc takes up far too much space and could – and should – have been taken care of much earlier in the trilogy. Pug, Miranda, Nakor and Magnus, having been whisked away to a higher plane of existence, spent some time finally ‘learning’ what the stakes of this final confrontation are – unsurprisingly, the end of existence at the hands of the Dread – as well as figuring out how to stop it. ![]() Much of the first half of Magician’s End is, essentially, spent on waffling. ![]()
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