Queen of Sorcery - David Eddings

LOTR fans will love this lighter fantasy series (263 words)
by Sugardooyoo - written on 29/11/08 (Very useful, 44 readings)
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The Queen of Sorcery is the second book out of five in David Eddings Belgariad fantasy novel series. I have owned this book and the others for over twenty years, the covers have disintegrated from use and pages have been stuck back in with sellotape, I have read them numerous times, my other half has read them twice and I have even read the to my children and now after several years I am in the middle of rereading the entire series and enjoying them all over again. These books are written very much in the same vein as JRR Tolkein s "Lord of the Rings" but with much more humour and don t take themselves as serious. They feature Belgarath the Sorcerer, known ...

Belgariad Series by David Eddings in general

Powerful Writing (254 words)
by Pingu - written on 10/07/00, updated on 10/07/00 (Useful, 12 readings)
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David Edding's achievement is one of the greatest in serious fantasy. The world which he has created is equal in stature to Tolkein's Middle-Earth and Pratchett's Discworld without any doubt. It's laws make sense, and remain consistent. More importantly, magic is not an easy fix all, but must also obey fixed laws which bring their own problems - for instance transporting something by magic causes an equal and opposite force to be applied to the person transporting it. In fact magic is barely useable at all, thus placing constraints on our heroes. The plot is an obvious rip-off of Lord of the Rings. A race to obtain an artefact that would restore a dormant evil to ...

Belgariad Series by David Eddings in general

True Romance (116 words)
by DBan - written on 10/07/00, updated on 10/07/00 (Useful, 6 readings)
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character consepts. A whole new world with it's different cultures has been created by David (and Leigh) Eddings. Eddings is the best Fantasy Author of our time. ...