Perhaps Feist's best book, but hampered by the fact that a) you really need to read the preceding books to appreciate the context of this one and b) the sequels take a much more drably traditional route to resolving many of the plots, and generally speaking most of the promise here isn't actually followed up on. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/the-reading-canary-the-serpentwar-saga/