The Belgariad is a series of five books written by David Eddings starting with Pawn of Prophecy in 1982. I discovered the first in the summer of 1985 as an 12 year old on my last day of vacation and by the time I was home the next day I’d already finished it. This included reading in a car and feeling sick as a result but I couldn’t bring myself to put the book down. Luckily the whole series was out by then so I […]
Repetitive and sexist but not terrible for all that.
This is technically a review of the last book in two connected series but it can stand as a review of all ten books in both the The Belgariad and The Malloreon series. Because, let’s face it, they’re all more or less the same book. Now, unless it is loving satire written by Diana Wynne Jones, I am not typically a huge fan of quest fantasy. I find quest fantasy to be old-fashioned, trope-y, and sexist. And the books of David and Leigh Eddings hit […]