Het gaat lekker met deze serie. Heerlijk boek, hoewel duidelijk een "tussenboek". Nu door in de afsluiter en dan heb ik deze heerlijke serie weer uit! ( )

Book 4 of the Mallorean Series. Again, I will emphasize that I loved reading this entire series. In this tome, Eddings focuses on the evil side of the story. The sorceress Zandramas has her own agenda in order to get to the final battle place to win. Eddings describes Zandramas in detail and what position in the prophesy she has. This is a page turner from beginning to end. ( )

En het verhaal dendert lekker door. Eddings heeft een vrij constante kwaliteit in deze serie. ( )

This will be the same review for all the books in ‘The Belgariad’ and ‘The Mallorean’.

These books changed me.
I started reading them as an 11 year old who was kind of floating around in this thing called life. I had friends at school, but no meaningful connections. This I didn’t understand until I was older. By reading these books I was drawn into an incredible world filled with characters that I knew and loved, and in some cases wanted to be (come on people, I can’t be the only kid that put a streak of white paint in their hair). The story is Garion’s ‘hero’s journey’ but I felt that the adventure belonged to me too. It was my ‘Neverending story’ if you will and it gave me the confidence to be more present in my own life. I own all the copies of both series set in this marvellous world and most of the extras too. They are a pretty tired looking collection of books because I bought them as a university student from second book shops all over Christchurch and Auckland. I love that they have been released again relatively recently with a fresh new look so that they can appeal to the younger generation. I thoroughly recommend these books for lovers of high fantasy, action, and relatable characters. It is the quintessential hero’s journey. ( )

Many people think David Eddings is overly formulaic which he is a bit but since I enjoy the tale he tells I do not mind reading it over again. His characters always have great humor at their core and you cannot beat a good epic tale for entertainment value. This particular book is one of my favorites by him.
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The Malloreon books are, let's be honest, not incredibly well written. All the main characters have started to sound the same, they all use the same idioms and expressions, and things got far too well for them. It's like a band of Pollyannas.

Having said that, it's not war and peace, but I still love this book. ( )

You can kind of feel the Eddingses get tired of writing these characters, you know? Not the settings or questing, but a great many of these characters disappear until their beats are needed except for Silk, Beldin, Zakath (well, he disappears literally for a while, but you can tell they like him) and the wolf/Poledra. Even Garion is mostly there to be the POV. And you can tell that's even wearing, given the switches to "other places in the world" places, including some Zakath bits and the Vella & Porenn bits along with bringing Barak and co back to the 'verse.

It still works, but you can almost feel the dream of "The Adventures of Prince Kheldar, King of Mercantilism and Spying" fade up and down in the narrative. ( )

Sorceress of Darshiva is the fourth book in The Malloreon by David Eddings. The never ending quest! Trouble and delays seem to plague Garion and the party in their efforts with Zandramas always staying one step ahead. With Demon Lords and enemy forces on one side and agents of Emperor Zakath trying to capture them on the other, the party will need to hurry if they want to make it to the Place Which Is No More in time. Assuming Belgarath can figure out what that phrase means.

This volume is all about setting the stage for the final book. It's not boring and the pacing is decent, just a lot of activity and travel happens in a short time. The constant threat to the world also feels a bit lessened in this book due to the need to rush everyone from one task to the next so the bad guys, while there, aren't quite as menacing as they were in previous installments. This is the book where Durnik gets a chance to shine, which is nice as he's not really had his moment. His major scene is one of my favorites in this series. Also love the addition of the she wolf and her pup. It's too bad they weren't in the series more towards the beginning.

If I were able to be more objective this might be more like a 3.5 star rating but no, I just love these books too much :) On to book 5! ( )

With the field of contenders down to just Garion and Zandramas, the competition becomes more focussed and Garion and his companions are hot on the trail of the sardion and one of their clues leads them to Senji, a scholar at the University of Melcene who'd learnt the secret of the Will and the Word, and the owner of the sole unmutilated copy of the Angarak Prophesies that will give them a clue as to what their opponent is supposed to do and where the final confrontation between Light and Dark is supposed to take place (a place that is not supposed to exist anymore!!).

There's a good amount of action in this story and some of the interaction between the characters, and some of the supporting cast are fun as well. ( )

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I'm still re-reading this series and I'm still loving it. There's a lot of action in this one as the group picks up a few more necessary characters on their quest. My favorite character in the series (Silk) is still there providing his wit to make me giggle. I can't believe I only have one more left and then it's over. ( )

The fourth installment is more of the same. Garion and company continue on in their quest to fulfill an ancient prophecy. The foretold complete group of heroes has finally been established and finally, and I do mean finally, they will march on to the mystical 'place that is no more'.

If you have made it to this book in the series you are either a) loving every footstep and hoof beat of Eddings' universe, b) you are a completest and must follow the heroes in spite of your better judgement or c) The story is just interesting enough to keep you engaged through the final book. Me, well I'm in the 'c' category with a small side of 'b'. ( )

Plot development has slowed to a crawl in this 4th instalment of the Mallorean and its only a combination of affection for the characters and sheer bloody-minded determination to finish this series that keeps the reader going. This 5 book series is definitely at least 2 books too long. ( )

The 5 book Malloreon saga continues. As we get to book 4, the ending starts to look more and more like some sort of paradox of prophecy, is it actually possible for either prophecy to actually 'win'? You'd think that would generate some suspense, but there isn't a whole lot of suspense in this series. They are well written and enjoyable, but mostly they are about the characters, not the plot. The characters are still good though, and do carry the story very well. ( )

This is book four of the Malloreon. It feels like not much happens in this book, although there is plot development happening. I guess it more feels like this book is a connector between the book before and the book after, and not much more. On the other hand, it was an engaging read.

http://www.stillhq.com/book/David_Eddings/Sorceress_of_Darshiva.html ( )

Although I didn't enjoy this series as much as I enjoyed the Belgariad series, it was a still a good set of books and I enjoyed seeing all my favourite characters again. ( )

See my review for Guardians of the West. ( )

See my review for Book One. ( )

This entire series is wonderful. One of the earlier "young boy discovers that he's more than he was led to believe" stories. A classic in the fantasy genre that pulls you into a great read. ( )

See Guardians of the West. ( )

See Pawn of Prophecy.

I read these years ago, and enjoyed them at the time. They're considered classics in the genre, I think, but I don't really remember much about them. ( )

MALLOREON

Read 9/2003