Resenha feita pelo blog Bravura Literária.O Trono de Diamante, lançado em Agosto desse ano, foi o primeiro livro do gênero Fantasia publicado pela Editora Aleph, que é famosa por seus lançamentos do gênero de Ficção Científica. Grande admirador de Tolkien, o autor David Eddings foi um dos mais be...
Ok, I am sorry. But this book was horrible. It felt like it was written for people in the early stages of Alzheimer's. The climax of the story was written no less than four times, supposedly from different peoples' points of view, except the reactions of the people were worded differently ever...
Very minor spoilers. I don't know what to say of this book except that I didn't like it. Eddings sure does have a formula for his fantasy and uses every trope imaginable, but I found this series to be too derivative.OK I actually have a lot to say of this book.Firstly, the dialogue is often very ...
There’s something I don’t fully understand. You’ve written a hugely successful series of fantasy books. (Well, you’ve actually written four, but let’s not worry about the other three right now). You’ve written a prequel to one of these series. That’s fine with me, so far, even if the prequel was ...
I really enjoy reading these books, they have everything that make a good book: great well characterized characters, great story, good dark humor, great witty dialogues, packed with adventure and travels, great created world with each race, etc. Even though one may be scared of the 5 books to rea...
So, I used to love David Eddings. I thought his Belgariad series and Mallorean series were pretty awesome. Granted I was in high school at the time and not the discerning reader I am today. But I've reread them frequently since and they are still pretty fresh and intriguing--funny, and wry and...
Originally published on my blog here in April 2001.Apart from his debut novel, thriller High Hunt, The Losers is Eddings' only attempt at something outside the fantasy genre. Interestingly, it has aspects in common with the much earlier novel, including the Washington state setting (though that i...
Things finally start to get going in the Shining Ones, but it's still the weakest book of the Tamuli trilogy. Most of this is down to several things previously considered unalterable in the Sparhawk-verse suddenly changing. Bhelliom is sentient. Zalasta is evil. Aphrael appears as an adult. ...
This here book is amazing. It’s easily my favorite David Eddings novel, although I’ve only read the ‘Tamuli’ set and ‘Redemption of Althalus’. Out of the five total books ‘High Hunt’ is perched on the top comfortably grinning down toward the others. I expected a different read because this one is...
As it was with the Belgariad and the Malloreon, so it shall be with the Redemption of Althalus as well...I read the Rivan Codex some time ago and in it David Eddings admitted that he got into writing fantasy not out of a love of fantasy but because he found a tested formula from reading other fan...
David Eddings has earned himself a very strong reputation as a great fantasy writer. I am familiar with his earlier work simply because I have heard of it, but have not had the opportunity to read it. I imagine, though, that for those that are a fan of his work, this particular novel will read as...
The final book in the pentology, or so we thought31 August 2012tWell, I have now come to the end of another pointless series of books that does very little to add to the collection of human literature that is pounding our vision these days. A lot of people do seem to have liked these books and I ...
When provoked, Sparhawk was not the most reasonable of men.The Ruby Knight is a direct continuation of The Elenium, picking up almost exactly where The Diamond Throne let off, so don’t let grass grow beneath your feet between books. That said, this book doesn’t have the same impetus going for it;...
Originally posted on Once Upon a Bookcase.The final book in The Tamuli! And what a book!After Sparhawk released the Troll-Gods up in Atan, they took back control of the Trolls and turned them against Cyrgon and his Cyrgai. Being butchered and eaten by the Trolls, the ranks of the Cyrgai fall, cau...
"Castle of Wizardry", the penultimate book in Eddings’ Belgariad series, is another bridge novel in the manner of "Queen of Sorcery". While the second novel in the series was really just a sequence of connected vignettes, Wizardry benefits from more developed relationship complications and some i...
An ending.I wrote a brief review for book one. Now the series is finished I'll add some more words about the series.Brief review: The final books wraps up the main quest/story line, bring the characters to a final dramatic meeting. Eddings continues his characteristic prose and storytelling, dra...
This is not a first book of David Eddings which I have read. The first book was actually Domes of Fire (The Tamuli Book 1), part of Sparhawk Universe. Ironically, both books are sequels of the respective original series. The Domes was successful to persuade me to like Edding’s writing. So doe...
tOkay, I have probably got to the point now where I really do not know what to write about a book. It is strange because I managed to get through all of Piers Anthony's books without coming to a stumbling block, but these series I have finally run out of steam. People seem to like this book, and ...
Originally posted on Once Upon a Bookcase.WARNING: This is a follow up trilogy to David Eddings' The Elenium. The events in these books take place several years after those in The Elenium, with the same characters. Therefore, this series - and so also my review - discusses things revealed in the ...
When we're all looking for a good book to read, we usually look to our favourite authors and our best friends and trust their recommnendations as to what we should try next. Such as it was for me.The Belgariad was suggested to me by just about everyone I knew who enjoyed fantasy, and a number of ...
This book is the second of 'The Mallorean' series, a sequel to Eddings' 'Belgariad' series, and as such includes all the major characters of that previous series albeit several years later, plus several new ones.The plotline is surpringsly similar to the first series: something important has been...
I really really like the David Eddings books, and they were where I properly started out reading in the fantasy genre, back when I was thirteen or so. I adore them and have read them time and again. However, Queen of Sorcery is far from the strongest entry in the Belgariad, and this time during m...
Our Travelogue of Eddingsworld Continues ...Yes, when each part of the book requires a new map that's centered on a new country that feels like a patch in a patchwork quilt, there's something a little wrong with the worldbuilding.That said, the story proceeds apace, with the annoying addition of ...
3.5I gave this book an official "4" because I liked it more than I didn't, but it had some serious problems for me, especially when covering the sections that were dealt with in some detail in the two main series.Belgarath the Sorcerer refreshingly does not follow the same tired plot that all the...
I love David (and the ever-silent Leigh) Eddings. I enjoy every fantasy book he has written. This book, however, is outside of their general genre, and just doesn't work for me. In fact, I was several chapters in when I realized that I may have actually read the novel before, but blocked it out.....
Rabbit, Longbow, Redbeard, Sorgan Hookbeak, and Narasan are back for more fine storytelling by David & Leigh Eddings. If you liked the first book, The Elder Gods, this one won't disappoint, although it's visibly slow in pace. I mean, book two of The Dreamers series isn't without some army-clashin...