Feist gets a lot of flak for being yet another Tolkien ripoff, but I think he's by far the best of the ripoffs. The first trilogy, anyway. And yeah, the Empire

Feist gets a lot of flak for being yet another Tolkien ripoff, but I think he's by far the best of the ripoffs. The first trilogy, anyway. And yeah, the Empire trilogy is probably the best of his (co-)work.