Advantages: Clearly presented, intriguing and believable ideas, adds to enjoyment of the Narnia books Disadvantages: Rather too long-winded and over-detailed in places
‘Planet Narnia’ is one of those books whose title kept appearing on my radar a couple of years ago. A recommendation by Amazon, a comment by a friend, a reference in a blog... so, at first skeptical but eventually curious, I put it on my wishlist and was ...
Advantages: Some of Eddings' Earliest Fantasy, Great Characters + Character Interaction, Brilliant Fantasy. Disadvantages: Slow on the Action, Very Dialogue Driven, Similar to Edding's other books.
I was shocked and appalled today to realise that Ciao lacked individual book listings for my favourite fantasy series, having only reviews of the whole series - pathetic! Luckily, this Christmas I'm following the tried and tested "hide from the world and ...
Advantages: eddings at his best Disadvantages: none
Pawn of Prophecy is the first novel in the Belgariad written by David Eddings. Author David Eddings was a fantasy writer who passed away last year, he lived in Seattle, Washington. His most famous works are the two five book fantasy epics, the Bel ...
Advantages: very interesting story Disadvantages: would have been made an easier read with humor
Pawn of Prophecy was written by David Eddings and is part of a three book series. I feel like the author has a similar stile of writing as Terry pratchett although he does not get too technical when explaining how things work. I must admit its only rea ...
Advantages: Some good characters and hint of better to come in rest of series! Disadvantages: Clunky plot and dialogue, boring.
NOTE: This is a review of the novel not the audiobook.
Well where do I start with this! I was really looking forward to reading this book and in the expectation of it being a brilliant series I bought a pack with the whole Belgariad and Malloreon serie ...