A true work of Sorcery (Polgara the Sorceress - David Eddings)

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Product:	Polgara the Sorceress - David Eddings
Date:	23/07/08 (13 review reads)
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Advantages: Well written story that leaves your mind tingly

Disadvantages: None!

Polgara, Daughter of Belgarath. Sorceress, dutchess, Beauty and downright furious.
To explain, let me introduce the story - just the beginning.
Belgarath, Polgara's father, was forced, more or less, to write, basically, a history of the world. Or, in other words, his lifes story. And, to quote Polgara, he's "an expert in starting a job and getting somebody else to finish it for him!".
Belgarath has left his story full of holes - and questions about what Polgara was doing from time to time, which basically forces Ce'Nedra to come and demand the rest of the story.
So, from before her birth, through her early years, the marriage of her sister and subsequent death, falling in love and fighting thruogh wars, losing her lover, and puberty, and through it all, safeguarding the line of Riva.
Polgara's story is often heartwrenching - I don't mind admitting that the quality of the writing brought tears to my eyes, and its obvious that Leigh is coming into her own on this story - its occasionally hilarious as well, as the trademark Eddings humour shows through.
This isn't just Polgara's story, its the story of kingdoms rising and falling, its the story of the study of medicine, and mostly its the counterpart study of human nature to Belgarath.

Once I started this one, I literally couldn't stop reading, its a superbly written book with truly startling characters, and it just sucks you right into the page.

Throughout the book, little hints are dropped that clear up SO many unanswered questions throughout the Belgariad, and the Mallorean It'll leave you stunned - tehres answers you wouldn't even have thought of the question to go with it.

Why does Polgara pose as a Dutchess? And why is she so good at it? Who does Durnik remind her of? Why Sendaria? Who was her mother to her? Why does she always smile when tehre are birds around? All are answered in this cracker of a book

Summary: The story of polgara - and everything else