"Shadow of a Dark Queen" by Raymond E Feist - a book report

"Shadow Of The Dark Queen" by Raymond E Feist, which is part of the "Serpent War" series, is the book I'm doing my book report on. The cover of this book shows a man in steel armour wearing a helmet with horns, sitting astride a brown horse, over looking a burning city with thick black smoke in the distance. The initial impact presents that the man in armour is something of a leader, or the main character, but either good or bad, he is observing the city burning, and the reader doesn't know if it is with joy or sorrow.
The main characters are Erik, Roo, Calis and Miranda.
Erik is the bas…