A Classic Follow-Up (Mallorean Series - David Eddings)

Name: Waikie

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Product:	Mallorean Series - David Eddings
Date:	25/06/01 (83 review reads)
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Advantages: Great detail, cracking read

Disadvantages: onlt 5 books long again!

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 follow the main players of the first series across the largely good continent - and into new territory - Mallorea, home to warring despots and warped beings.
Further twists and betrayals appear, and finally the prophecy is played out in the most dramatic of fashions.

For me, little points such as the naming of all the main (good and evil) characters in the prophecy adds to the drama of it all, the maps on the start of each chapter detailing the country travelled through makes the world so rich, so real.

The second series is definetely less storytelling and saga than the first, but more pronounced in it's detail and overall darker. It's as if the first series is a youth and the second a grown up. Sorry to be so deep - but it's the only way i could think to explain!

The stories within will always stay with me, in fact i reread them every year or so, just to check i still remember it right!

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