The Malloreon, Vol. 1 : Guardians of the West, King of the Murgos, Demon Lord of Karanda Author: Visit Amazon's David Eddings Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0345483863 | Format: PDF
The Malloreon, Vol. 1 : Guardians of the West, King of the Murgos, Demon Lord of Karanda Description
- Series: The Malloreon
- Paperback: 816 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey; Books 1-3 edition (August 30, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345483863
- ISBN-13: 978-0345483867
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Eddings is (with wife Leigh..are?) a terrific fantasy writer. He creates sprawling epics that maintain their page-turning intensity and characters that are interesting. He does that here, too, at times, but there are disquieting aspects to this sequel to the Belgariad. It is very fine at times, but it is not as good as the original, The Belgariad. In part, that is simply because the sequel runs into what sequels usually run into--the sense of excitement coming from a new discovery is gone and can't be recaptured. But in addition, Eddings goes out of his way here to recreate the first series--the heroes have a similar goal in mind and the plot is more or less the same. Even that's not enough for him, evidently--not only is the plot more or less the same, Eddings even goes so far as to introduce a plot device that has certain events from the Belgariad deliberately repeated (the characters even explicitly discuss fate recreating past events along the way). This makes the Malloreum sometimes seem like a cheap rehash, particularly given that the basic plot is identical to the Belgariad, with a few extra cherries on top.
Second, the tight knit band of heroes becomes quite tiresome now. Eddings goes to the well too often with the repetitive interplay between the characters. It is as if the same joke is repeated over and again. It was funny the first time we met Beldin. It is not as funny the 50th time he insults Belgarath, or Velvet takes the wind out of Silk's sails, or Silk pretends to take offense when someone uses a candid word (like "swindle"), or Vella reaches once more for her daggers at some slight. Enough!! By the end of the series, actually, well before that, the characters are simply caricatures.
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