Pawn of Prophecy - David Eddings

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.

...soon as you get bored.) Pawn of Prophecy is book one of "The Belgariad" a High Fantasy series written by David Eddings (with mostly unacknowledged help from his wife, Leigh Eddings.) The series is set in a fully imagined world, quite similar to our own, but filled with several different races of humans. Each race is culturally (and biologically) distinct from the others, mostly following one particular god for example, and living in one particular ...
...his previous work. Pawn of Prophecy is story of a boy named Garion, telling how he leaves behind the safety and security of his childhood, and follows his Aunt Pol and a shady storyteller he names "Mister Wolf" on a dangerous adventure. As the first book of a High Fantasy series we naturally receive portions of magic, swashbuckler-y and rogue-ishness. After all, in future books of this series, Garion will have to discover his destiny and save the ... Read review

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 series as well as the accompanying extra books Belgarath the Sorcerer, Polgara the Sorceress and the Rivan Codex for a very bargainous price! Unfortunately, the first of the series 'Pawn of Prophecy' did ...
...YOU CAN CALL IT THAT) SPOILER TO FOLLOW: This book revolves around the life of the main character, a humble servant boy on Faldor's Farm called Garion. The premise is that he lives a very simple life with his Aunt Pol as his parents both died when he was a baby. He is friends with the smith on the farm, a man called Durnik and also befriends a local beggarman storyteller who visits the farm at intervals to earn his way as a master weaver of stories. ... Read review

Advantages: Good strong characters
Disadvantages: Slow to start

I read this book on holiday and i can safely say it is one fantstic fantasy book this book was slightly slow and hard to follow at the beggining but when you get further on you find yourself reading this book until 11o'clock at night, then you come out of david eddings' fantasy world and realise that for the last eight hours you have been reading a brilliant bookWhen i came out of this trance i thought, time well spent!. fantastic book to start the ... Read review