Krondor Book

[I remember being quite annoyed in Prince of the Blood when Arutha announced his intentions to send Jimmy to Rillanon to become the Duke there. I was so annoyed by it that it's the main thing I remembered about the book 20 years later. We all knew Jimmy loved Krondor, knew the city like the back of his hand, was very loyal to Arutha, and had always aspired to become the Duke of Krondor. So why on earth would Arutha send him to Rillanon? He does end up Duke of Krondor many years later in the Serpentwar Saga, but the business with him being sent to Rillanon was never explained or even really mentioned again from what I remember.

Well, that's explained in this book -- twice. Even though the explanation was written later, it didn't feel shoe-horned in because it tied with things mentioned in those earlier books and felt like a perfectly logical explanation. Having the satisfaction of that 20-year-old-annoyance being resolved would have been worth the time spent reading this book even if I hadn't enjoyed anything else about it. This makes me wonder if maybe I somehow missed reading this book altogether the first time around. I thought I had read it, but between not having made such an obvious connection and not remembering anything else about this story, maybe I didn't. Since this book was written later, it also made me wonder if it was added because it was something Feist himself had wanted to clarify, or if it was a response to fan reactions because other readers were as annoyed by it as I was. (hide spoiler)]