Crystal Gorge - David Eddings

David Eddings in general

David Eddings is one of the worlds top authors. Like many authors of fantasy novels, this position is not always recognised, but anything he writes almost automatically becomes a no.1 best seller with his legion of fans rushing to buy each book. His best selling, (and best) books compose a twelve book set of related novels relating the adventures of Belgarion, a farm boy who becomes a King and kills one god and helps create another. His adventures are spread across two series of five novels - the Belgariad and the Malloreon, and these books represent the heart of Eddings work. His writing is gripping, entertaining and eminantly re-readable. His greatest skill is in ...

Mallorean Series - David Eddings

Brilliant i thought - a sequel series, another 5 books! If you read the first op about the Belgardiad series then you'll understand. If not! then : this is the second series based on a world filled with rich history and rivalry, of sorcery and war-torn continents. The writing in the second series is more developed than the first, seeming to grow in depth and more complex twists, as if drawing on the very fabric of the first series. In it - the hero of the first series discovers that the prophecy he fulfilled lives on in his son, who is kidnapped by dark forces not wishing the second prophecy to be played out to the side of good. The chase is on, and we ...

Mallorean Series - David Eddings

allies by the end of the book - you can almost visualise the rainbow everyone rides off towards at the end. These are really rather minor quibbles, but they do come more the fore in the Tamuli and Eleni series that David Eddings wrote next. This is a very entertaining series, and a welcome return to the world of the Belgariad. Buy it, and enjoy. ...