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The Fourth Book of Lost Swords: Farslayer's Story

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I think I've read this whole series, or at least the books I can get my hands on that is. The books are excellent, with well-developed characters and interesting story line. The author uses a system of magic I haven't seen anywhere else, the universe is based on group belief, if enough people believe something it's real... as people lose belief it dies... Well Far slayer's story is about 2 feuding families who hate each other so much; they forget what they hate each other for. Far Slayer enters their world and the two families start killing each other off... There is a Romeo And Juliet thing going here too... it starts slow, but ends well... I enjoyed it very much... just hang in through the beginning and you'll be glad you did.

This story is awesome for one reason: Cosmo Malolo's relationship with a mermaid. What goes on in that grotto? Fondling to be sure. What else? Who knows? Well, we can reasonably deduce given the limited options. But alas, relations with mermaids are looked down upon in the village. It's viewed as taking advantage, equivalent to molestation. But does that stop Cosmo? Oh hellll naw. He's gonna get him a piece of that mermaid fin. He doesn't even care. If two consenting adults want to service one another in a grotto, that's their business. Even if one of them has a condition that renders her lady-parts inoperable. You don't see people raising a ruckus when handicapped people have relationships with non-handicapped people. What's the difference?! WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

This book focuses on the futility of revenge.
Farslayer is shown not so much a sword to have as a sword to prevent you enemies from having since using it almost guarantees your own death.

There are a few good characters in the book and some of them display a great deal of cynicism, even the good guys.

There is not a lot of action since the focus is on finding the sword but the ending makes up for this with a huge mess of violence and death.

The ending leaves some open questions and no clear victor which is nice.

The heavy influence of the Emperor is in this book again and his ability to predict the future has never been explained so it looks like a crutch to help the plot along.

Another enjoyable instalment in the series.

This is the story of Farslayer, the sword that kills anyone anywhere with perfect precision.

At the beginning of the book, a ship carrying Farslayer wrecks and the sword is picked by a Mermaid named Black Pearl.

Black Pearl is friends with a magician whose family is engaged in a feud with a rival clan. Eventually, the family's proceed to slaughter each other, before one of the members takes off with the sword.

The Pilgrims Yambu and Zoltan, arrive on the scene, hear about the sword and begin searching. Word has also reached the evil wizard Wood who sends one of his servants in search of the sword.

Eventually, Prince Mark wielding Stonecutter and Ben show up.

The entire books focuses on the two clans and their search for the sword.
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What I found frustrating about this book along with the other 3 books before this book is that nothing significant happens.

Only two swords make an appearance in this book. And Farslayer isn't the most important sword. It can only kill person at a time. And wielder has to lose it order to use it. In the first book Baron Amintor had Farslayer and the Prince didn't care about the sword. They even wounded the Baron and drove him off alone when they recovered Shieldbreaker and they didn't give pursuit.

Prince Mark doesn't make it a secret that he's carrying Stonecutter which is pretty much useless in this book. The other side doesn't care about Stonecutter. You'd think that Wood would send in reinforcements in an attempt to take both swords but he doesn't care. In fact at the end both sides simply ignore Stonecutter.

So this book is completely unnecessary. Like it's predecessors the ending raises more questions than it answers.

So it's barely two stars.

This book does not deserve to be in print.It wanders too far from where the story needs to be,I wish I could get a refund for it.