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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  Zommbie1 | Dec 12, 2009 |  See my review for Book One. (  ) Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 | You'll be suprised to hear that something actually happens in this book. If you've read any of my other reviews about this series you'll know I'm not particularly a fan. There is an incredible amount of nothing happening but FINALLY we get a bit of excitement... The Rivan King returns, and boy was it predictable. And I find it impossible to predict the obvious. But anyway I enjoyed this book in the series, I actually wanted to find out what happens. Weird. I'll keep on trucking to the fifth and final book but will probably leave it there. I'm not interested in the next series following the characters of this book... I can't even remember what it's called, probably something boring though. ( ) LexRigby | May 29, 2009 | Garion, once a simple farm lad, but now realizing his potential as a sorerer, has regained the stolen Orb of Aldur. Its song soars as Garian and his companions race to return it to its rightful home on the Island of Riva. It's a perilous journey through a desert teeming with murgo soldiers, while grolims strive to use their dark magic to destroy them. When Garion finally returns the Orb to the sword of the Rivian King and holds it aloft, a voice echoes in a dark tomb as his adversary - The evil God Torak - stirs after centuries of slumber... (  ) Stir-Pink | Feb 9, 2009 | This is book four in the Belgariad, and was as good as the others. This one only took a day to read, but that was helped a lot by the two hours I spent commuting to and from San Francisco today. This book is a little different than the others because it starts just as the quest for the Orb ends. Yet it turns out that the overall prophecy that the Belgariad describes is still incomplete, so the story continues. http://www.stillhq.com/book/David_Edd... ( ) mikal | Nov 15, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345335708, Mass Market Paperback)END OF THE QUESTIt had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer. Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished. But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and for the little princess Ce'Nedra. This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad, begun in Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, and Magician's Gambit--a fantasy set against a background of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a prophecy that must be fulfilled! (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:01 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I love it.
The book reveals much about Garions rather mysterious background. Garion again becomes the rather agreeable character he is in the first book rather than the sullen moody teenager he is in books two and three and I for one found it refreshing. However, Garion's transformation isn't as surprising as the transformation that Ce'Nedra goes through. We still see glimpses of the spoiled child we first met but now they are more of a character trait and not her whole character. I don't really want to write more in case it spoils anyone.
I really love how Eddings (or should I say the Eddingses as Davids wife Leigh was heavily involved in writing these books) manage to portray the teenagers who are their main characters. They really feel authentic. (