Another good Riftwar-universe story. I've been reading through all the Riftwar books and I think I've discovered what makes them good (for me, anyway). It's the introduction of new realms - sometimes entire worlds, sometimes new areas on an existing world. Every time one of these books takes us to a new realm, it's kept my attention. The books that try to set new stories in existing realms seem to fall a bit flat.

This particular story spends plenty of time in the worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan, but the really interesting stuff is a journey to another plane of existence. The realm of the Dasati is quite a distopia. Lots of plot I don't want to spoil, and even more coming in the third book of the Darkwar Saga, so suffice it to say that the journey into that realm is one of the more interesting places that Feist has sent his magician Pug.