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[johnridley]

Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings

Book 2 of the Belgariad.

Nothing to report, the story rolls on and it's still interesting if not riveting. The books seem to have been divided by number of pages as much as anything else.

So far I must assume that this is on the "top 100" list because it broke ground at the time or something. It's an OK book but so far if taken on its own I don't know what would put it above many other such stories. Maybe the other books will improve things.

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[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I suppose that would explain it, especially how linear the story is. The group almost always stays together, but even when they don't, the storyline always stays with Garion. Very un-complicated and vanilla.

I had the same feeling about the one Pern novel that I wrote, though that was far worse; the characters in that were barely two-dimensional.

I had already realized that I wouldn't be reading the Malloreon. This series is going pretty fast, all 5 books will take about the same amount of time as one of the Void series books. And they're not bad, just a little plain.