Rage of a Demon King

By Raymond E. Feist

The third book in the bestselling Serpentwar series.

The ultimate darkness approaches . . .

As the Emerald Queen’s shadow lengthens once more across the land of Midkemia, her forces stand ready to launch a devastating invasion.

Come the battle’s dawn, the magician Pug and his life-long friend Tomas will discover that something far worse than the Queen’s sorcery is afoot. For an insatiable nightmare creature has entered their world, seeking to own and corrupt the source of life itself.

When the final conflict is joined, reptile will stand against man and magician against demon; and those who battle for good must be victorious . . . or all is doomed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Sep 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9780007370207

Raymond E. Feist

Raymond E. Feist was born and raised in Southern California. He was educated at the University of California, San Diego, where he graduated with honours in Communication Arts. He is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Riftwar Cycle among other books.

Reviews for Rage of a Demon King

[booksfordinner · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

More Feist Fun!

[ashooles · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It took me some time to get through this, though that was due to personal commitments preventing me from reading, mostly. I really enjoyed this book, like the previous two, and the ending left me keen for the fourth and final of this quartet. I look forward to reading!

[brakketh-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Preparation and then battle of attrition across Krondor. Some philosophical consideration of what gods and reality are dragged a bit.

[johnfair_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The Emerald Queen's forces have come ashore and broken through Krondor as they make their way to the forgotten city of Sethanon. In the epic battle for Krondor, it's revealed that the Emerald Queen herself wasn't who Pug and his companions had thought she was, being merely a shell animated by the titular demon Lord.In the more mundane arena of the actual fighting Erik von Darkmoore and his special squad attempt to boost the assembling regiments supplied by the local lords so they would put up some defence against the still-overwhelming forces of the invaders and Roo tries to ensure the safety of the various families that fate has put into his hands. As has become standard in this series, the fighting is described in a fairly graphic fashion though justifiable in terms of the action being described. Although the final elements of the book seem to be fairly swiftly dealt with it must be remembered that there is a third book in this particular series to come...

[shanaqui_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I didn't like the books of the Serpentwar Saga as much as the original trilogy, and don't actually remember much about them beyond the fact that I did enjoy reading them.

[nookbooks_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I can never decide if I like this book more or less than the second one in the series. One thing that has always impressed me about Feist is how he doesn't mind killing off main characters, or places, even before the end. It's hard to have read the Midkemia books from the beginning, and watch as the characters you've come to know and understand, disappear from the stories for forever. Of the places that you can envision in your minds eye... Part of me wishes that Arutha had still been alive for the war, because a small part of me thinks his wiley mind could have saved what even Duke James and Calis and Erik couldn't But part of me is glad that Arutha was long dead, because I don't know that he would have taken the loss of life and land the Kingdom faced any better than James did.In this third book in the Serpentwar Saga, the war from Novindus comes to the Kingdom of the Isles. Roo's hard earned money goes to finance it. The training that Erik's been put through comes into place as he leads the soldiers and tries to keep as many of them alive as possible. There is only so much they can do though, and at the end of the book, you realize just how much more the Kingdom of the Isles has to do to recover, and you wonder how they'll be able to do it without the strong characters that died in the fighting.This war has none of the elegance or honor that the Riftwar had at the siege of Castle Crydee, but the Kingdom men are good men, and fight against unbelievable odds once again, which, as always, is a good story.

[trelander_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The final book in the saga was a well rounded and action packed book. As always you get the two tiered effect of epic level characters dueling gods and demons and the mid range leaders down in the rank and files. I think it ended rather abruptly but it didnt take much away from the book.

[karlstar_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is the conclusion of the Serpentwar saga. I enjoyed the characters, but I didn't enjoy this trilogy as much as the previous. The resolution here is a bit mixed, the immediate threat is ended, but its obvious there's still something big planning trouble in the background. That's fairly normal for Feist books, but at this point I started to wonder when we'd ever get an idea of what's really behind all the problems, and when they'd get to fixing it.