Serpent Mage - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Bantam Spectra, 1992, 436 pages
ISBN: 0-553-56140-5
Read February 2015,  age 36

Book 4 of The Death Gate Cycle

There's a plot sighting in this book!  More than halfway through the series, and we're finally starting to see the shape of the main conflict.  Sigh.  As with the first three, the supporting characters were more interesting than the main duo - Alfred, the super-powerful, nice, but incompetent Sartan, and Haplo, who's continually showing that he's not as tough as he thinks he is (and the narrator is constantly telling us).  The three royal girls were much more sympathetic, and also clearer with their intentions.  The series is getting better, but I'm really unimpressed so far.

Rating: 3