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I love all the books in the Belgariad and Malloreon series.David Eddings RULES!
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This book was the greatest... if you're having problems falling asleep. Same ol', same ol'. Nothing changes. No one dies, exept some loser who never says or does anything. And the characters are all above any sort of temptation. They have no desires people!!! You know, it would be kinda entertaining if Eddings added something new to his novels... A TWIST? The baddies are so dumb it's sad. The good guys come, stomp some guys, come to some retarded cave and some blind person has a choice between lite and dark... GUESS WHO WINS?
It may be entertaining if Eddings wrote a book like Invasion, where characters arn't afraid to go over to evil. In fact it happens reguarly.
However, asking for anything more would be asking Eddings to get four times better in writing skill. He has no new ideas in any of his books EVER.
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Might not be as good as the others but still a good, interesting read. I liked all these books. Be sure to read the whole serie. Well worth it.
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With Torak destroyed Garion finally begins to relax. But before he knows it the dark prophecy is alive and taken a new person to carry out it's new scheme. Who is this person? What will happen to Garion and his family?
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I loved the Belgariad, but this series really is inferior in many ways (yes, I am reviewing the series, not the individual book. Sorry, but the book alone isn't worth reviewing). For one thing, many characters that we like never reappear in these books, and for another this seemed repetitive and at times boring.
The reviewer who said that he comeletely abandoned Ce'Nedra in these latest books was correct, and the same is somewhat true for Polgara and Eriond. Also, I must say that I found the constant 'females are inferior' attitude of many of the male characters irritating. I mean, okay, the bad jokes can stop already!
I loved how he further developed Silk and Yarblek, and Zakath was interesting, but one David Eddings put a joke or a concept in, he never lets it go. In the last series there were various things that he practically copied from earlier parts of the book, and here it is much the same (for instance, Silk's fear of snakes and Liselle's love of snakes).
Don't get me wrong...I liked the series okay. But Ce'Nedra was my favorite character, and she say and does practically nothing from the time Geran is stolen to the time she tries to kill Zandramas. That really irriates me, how David Eddings just shrugs off one of his best characters. Oh and by the way, that was probably the most repetitive thing of all...Zandramas' taking over Ce'Nedra time after time.
In conclusion, this is a good series, but don't waste your money on buying the books, and don't expect something of the same quality of the Belgariad.
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