Maybe I'm being too harsh and I should give this book two stars, but two stars means that "it was ok" and this book was not ok. This book was awful. Shadow of a Dark Queen was a very mid book. It had potential. If the following books in the series were steps up then this had a chance to be a very solid series. But this was nowhere near a step up. This was a massive step down. When I heard that this book was going to be Roo's story I was so excited because the only two characters who I really liked from book one were Roo and Miranda so there was no way a book about Roo could be bad right? WRONG. I literally could not give a crap about Roo's business ventures. It was boring as crap. And then Feist decided to go ahead and ruin Roo as a character by making him a heartless cheater who doesn't love his children? He's not even a character like Jezal where it's like he's technically a bad guy, but I still enjoy watching him. Roo was just awful. I cannot believe how bad things were. And then just to make matters worse Miranda is a cheater too? Two of the only times we saw her in this book was when she slept with Pug and then when she slept with Calis. This was almost worse than the Roo situation though because it was just never addressed. It was like the Miranda with Pug and the Miranda with Calis were two separate people because the book never bothered to say anything or give any explanation or excuse for how Miranda was acting.

I really wanted to continue with this series. A four book epic within a series containing thirty books. Like that sounds amazing, but it just isn't. I can't continue on with a series that is so perverted with such misogynistic characters who seem to only care about money and sleeping with hot women. I can't continue on with a series where two of the only like three female characters are both sleeping with multiple men and tricking the men into thinking that they're their only lover. I had such high expectations for the Riftwar Cycle, but I have been completely let down and have next to no motivation to read the third book in this quartet.