Story Rating: **** Cover Rating: A So, this book is a companion to The Belgariad and The Malloreon series, to which Belgarath the Sorcerer plays a vital role. It’s essentially a biography, really, but includes quite a bit of adventures of it’s own – independent of the ones going on […]
Story Rating: ***** Cover Rating: A Polgara was always one of my favorite characters, and I just loved this book depicting her life. It’s amazing since during the Belgariad and Malloreon series, you only gets hints at what “Aunt Pol” had gone through or done. This lengthy book fleshes out […]
Story Rating: ***** Cover Rating: C This is the final volume in The Malloreon series, and the big culminating fight scene finally occurs. It’s full of action, adventure, trials, and a lot of unexpected, last-moment character development to help wrap up our main adventuring party’s own stories. There are happy […]
Story Rating: **** Cover Rating: B In this book, we go back to hating Zaketh a little bit more while also totally feeling bad for him. Zandramas continues to be a jerk, and harries our main adventuring party mercilessly. Our main adventure party continues to be true to their personalities, […]
Story Rating: ***** Cover Rating: C Can I just start out by saying that I’m in love with Zaketh, the bad guy in this series? He’s an incredibly diverse character. David Eddings is an incredibly talented writer to make me both hate the bad guy, and totally sympathize with him […]
Story Rating: **** Cover Rating: B In the second volume of The Malloreon, we see a greater sense of urgency to fulfill the prophecy, which is relayed perfectly. Eddings has written the story so that steadily, it becomes evident all the characters slowly begin panicking they won’t make it on time […]
Story Rating: **** Cover Rating: B This book picks up a number of years after the end of The Belgariad series, and the only reason is receives four stars instead of five is because the start of this book was incredibly dull in comparison to what I’d come to expect […]
Story Rating: ***** Cover Rating: B Eddings wraps up this series beautifully in Enchanter’s End Game (and simultaneously sets the scene for the following series, The Mallorean). It is another action-packed book that intricately works the internal workings/struggles of his characters into the overlying plot. The book keeps the reader […]
Story Rating: ***** Cover Rating: B This is the part where all the loose ends start to add up, and they do so amidst pages filled with non-stop action. Where the previous books were action-packed but focused more on character development, this fourth volume shows fully-developed characters thrown into the […]
Story Rating: ***** Cover Rating: C In this book, we get much further inside Ce’Nedra’s head. She’s a feisty, spoiled little thing with a heart of gold and her BIG flaws make her a highly realistic character, despite her powerful status. It’s also a testament to Polgara (my favorite character […]
