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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is like… a teenaged boy’s wet dream of a fantasy novel, and it’s predictable, but it is fun to read.
Garion thinks he's just a simple farm boy who has somehow found himself swept up in a crowd of important people on a quest to save the world. However, as the action picks up and as Garion continues to grow, we discover that he's not quite as ordinary as he may have seemed.
This is the second installment in one of my favorite series of all time. The Belgariad taught me to love fantasy. I have too much emotion tied up in these books to ever be completely objective about them, but I still think they're excellent. If you haven't read this series, you should.
This is the second installment in one of my favorite series of all time. The Belgariad taught me to love fantasy. I have too much emotion tied up in these books to ever be completely objective about them, but I still think they're excellent. If you haven't read this series, you should.
Now we're cooking with bacon. The shit hath been stirred and everything is all a jumble. I'm loving this series.
Good fantasy story, but you have to remember that it was written at the beginning of the era when these tropes were just being formed.
The series is enjoyable and I like some of the ideas though this one was more of a chore than the first despite some interesting scenes.
The main issues I found were the paper-thin character development of the women in the series. The only female character who isn’t scheming or lustful is Queen Layla, but she is consigned to the category of baby-maker. Eddings develops some great male characters that carry the story but it’s like women are an unknown quantity to him. The other main issue again, much as in the first, is that nothing really happens. They get on the Great West Road and travel a while, Durnik chooses a place for them to rest, they are attacked, go to the local city/castle, Polgara takes woman aside, some meddling in politics, repeat a number of times.
I’m hoping the series starts to improve from the next book now that all the ground work has finally been laid.
The main issues I found were the paper-thin character development of the women in the series. The only female character who isn’t scheming or lustful is Queen Layla, but she is consigned to the category of baby-maker. Eddings develops some great male characters that carry the story but it’s like women are an unknown quantity to him. The other main issue again, much as in the first, is that nothing really happens. They get on the Great West Road and travel a while, Durnik chooses a place for them to rest, they are attacked, go to the local city/castle, Polgara takes woman aside, some meddling in politics, repeat a number of times.
I’m hoping the series starts to improve from the next book now that all the ground work has finally been laid.
3.5 stars. I think my enjoyment of this book was significantly dampened after reading about the author and his wife and their child abuse charges.
It in itself was a fun epic high fantasy story and surprisingly strong for the 2nd in a series.
I thought the stuff and formal knightly speech was obnoxiously off in just the right way.
It in itself was a fun epic high fantasy story and surprisingly strong for the 2nd in a series.
I thought the stuff and formal knightly speech was obnoxiously off in just the right way.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
loved it more than the first an enjoyable adventure from start to finish