The Sorceress of Darshiva | 
I prefer Geoff Taylor‘s covers for The Belgariad (UK Corgi editions) but I still like the ones he did for The Malloreon, too. I like the way each cover references the ones from the previous books.
The prologue is another extract from an academic work from the University of Melcene which gives us ‘a brief history of the Eastern Empire‘ though it scoffs at the idea of Gods being physically present in that world.
humouress The first chapter has Queen Porenn informing the western monarchs about Belgarth‘s group‘s progress and preparing for war:King Fulrach rubbed at his beard. ‘Why does it seem that we‘ve done this before?‘ he asked. ‘It‘s the same as last time. We have to create a diversion to help our friends get through. Any ideas?‘ And we also glimpse what the eastern kings we‘ve met in this series are currently doing, after Garion‘s group left them. 2y
humouress I love the way Eddings addresses all the perceived ‘flaws‘ in this series, like why the most powerful sorcerers in the world can‘t just use sorcery to overcome obstacles or why our hero (and sometimes we) can‘t know a thing too early. He makes use of the fact that Garion is still a farmboy at heart and we even have a sword in the stone … er … Stone in the sword. 2y
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