I'm really not sure why the Eddings published this book. It does complete the series, sort of, but it really is poorly done. The plot is circular, predictable, and completely without any sort of drama or conflict. The ending is so contrived, it really makes a mockery of the previous three books. Don't read this unless you feel compelled to finish the series. Save yourself some time and stop at book 2 in this series. ( )

What a disappointing let down this is. The Dreamers (The Elder Gods, The Treasured One, Crystal Gorge, The Younger Gods) is a fantasy series by one of my all-time favourite authors, David Eddings.
I have read every book by David and his late wife Leigh - at least twice. Well, not really all of them. I simply couldn’t get through the last one in this series. I don’t think that I have ever stopped reading a fantasy book in the middle - but this one I did.
The writing is simplistic and, I felt, quite patronizing. Maybe that style would work for a ten year old – and maybe not – but, as an adult devotee of Eddings’ work, it sounded smug, lazy and offhand.
The plot, or what passes for a plot, goes like this: the Vlagh, an evil goddess, is planning one final attack against the Elder and Younger Gods, throwing all her horrid bug-people into the fight. The Younger Gods are building their defenses all while trying to watch over Aracia, an Elder god who is going insane. The entire land of Dhrall is in peril and all the peoples of Dhrall come together to fight one last battle – yada yada yada.
Then there is the issue of characters. They are pretty much a repetition of different characters for Eddings’ other books. They are very shallow. They repeat the same jokes over and over and do the same things throughout the whole series. Some looked promising – Rabbit has potential – but generally, I couldn’t have cared less about any of them.
The writing is so sparse and uneventful that it's annoying. There are a lot of repetitive things going on: some are scenes, some are bits of dialogue, but most of them are in the description. If one more person ‘smiled with a broad grin’, I might have screamed. In fact, in my copy, there were even two chapters one after the other that seemed to be variations on a theme – different versions an author might play with to see which approach worked best. But here both were left – and both needed a good solid edit. At that point, I gave up.
I only gave this a 3 rating because, after all the enjoyment his past works have brought me, I simply couldn’t bring myself to rate an Eddings book less than a pass mark. ( )

Kind of a let down from the first book. A lot of retelling of the same info as each character carried the info to another. Really, book 3 and book 4 should have been combined into a single book.

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An odd end to the series. Felt just wrong. ( )