Wrath of a mad god

I'm seriously torn regarding this book. On the one hand, I quite enjoyed the story. It was rather epic. But the details sent me cringing.

I'd give 5 stars for the overall plot and the beautifully crafted tale that I really enjoyed. I cut 1 star for the disappointing magnification of all the problems present in the previous 2 books - bad proofreading, repetitiveness, and frequent plot line switch. I cut another star for hugely disappointing continuity problems (you can ignore this if you've never read any of Feist's earlier works, or if you can't remember any of them). And taking away just 1 more star for repeatedly bringing up my immersion level of the great story, and then dashing it down harshly with errors - it's almost like he doesn't care about his setting or characters any more.

** There will be spoilers below **

The plot is on an epic scale, so epic that there isn't much focus on individuals, but rather things as a whole. Which is pretty refreshing compared to his other books. A lot of things get answered in the end, including but not limited to Nakor, Leso Varen, the Nameless, and Bek. But some things were introduced suddenly and left mysteriously ignored - like the Quor.

The writing and proofreading is also epic - the worst of all Feist's books. Grammatical errors, missing words, incomplete sentences, badly-formed sentences, and even a few wrongly spelled names jumped out at me every few pages. And for some strange reason, Feist thought it absolutely necessary to keep reminding me about Magnus' potential to surpass his parents. And about how Miranda fears for her husband and boys, and how angry or helpless she feels, and how emotional or angry she can get. The same repetitiveness is applied to Pug and Nakor.

The details are epic too; epic failure of the worst kind: numerous continuity issues. Makes me doubt whether I want to bother with the next trilogy...

Examples? Just this trilogy alone, Kaspar has apparently never met elves, despite Pug having brought him and the Talnoy to Elvandar and fighting off Leso Varen's attack. The populations of the Dasati and the Tsurani were inconsistent in this book alone.

Expand it further; the Serpentwar Saga, the Emerald Queen's army had hundreds of thousands, but here, it was 1 digit less. The Dread were supposed to be from the sixth layer, but here it's the Void. The Riftwar Saga mentioned thousands of Great Ones; here, another digit went missing. Others include Erik's past, Jim's weirdness with Jimmy the Hand (plus the tasteless and pointless part about Michele), House Minwanabi still around, and the Acoma estates being uninhabited when they had been gifted away.

As I wrote at the top, the story and plot was great, I enjoyed it. But because it had a great story and a great potential, the inconsistencies and errors break immersion and just dashes any thrill I managed to build reading it.