Serpent Mage - Margaret Weis

The Death Gate Cycle trudges on and after the last entry I began to wonder if I'd ever make it to the end. Well, Serpent Mage is an improvement on Fire Sea but ultimately an unsatisfying read. Haplo escapes from Abarrach and lies to his master Xar about necromancy because, as is explained in book 3, its a rubbish idea. Xar, for reasons unclear to me refuses to listen to Haplo when he finds out about it, even though the implications are blindingly obvious. I guess this is a metaphor of sorts for world politics. Anyway, despite distrusting Haplo, Xar sends him on another mission, to Cholestra, the planet of water. This world does what it says on the tin and ...  Read the complete review