Product Description

In the new epic fantasy from the masters of modern fantasy David and Leigh Eddings, the Ruler of the Wasteland challenges the Gods and wreaks devastation on their people. The Dreamers are children teetering on the brink of divinity. They have the power to change the world with their dreams. And then they have to tell the Elder Gods what they have dreamed, or chaos will reign in the Land of the Gods, and great danger will be upon them. The Elder Gods have defeated the Vlagh twice - with the aid of the Dreamers and the mysterious Treasured One who seems, worryingly, to be controlling them - but the unspeakable Creature of the Wasteland is on the fast track to world domination as the time approaches for the Younger Gods to take their place. Now all the varied resources of the domains of the Gods are marshalled to bring a halt to the spread of evil. But there is pestilence and skirmishing, and suddenly the balance of power shifts. The Ruler of the Wasteland has infiltrated another domain of the Gods, the land of short summers, where bison and deer roam. There the strange and marvellous crystal gorge, which can be no natural formation of rock, is destined to become a battleground of great beauty and great terror. The enemy is closer to knowing the secrets of the Treasured One and the Dreamers are in grave danger of delivering a nightmare to the world of the Elder Gods. A magical, on-the-grandest-scale, action-packed, totally engaging and characterful fantasy novel from the bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #300551 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

Not at all the usual Eddings standard
I totally agree with the majority of reviewers on this book, particularly 'sarjs' - I too bought only the first book then borrowed the second and this one, then I went one step further and gave 'The Elder Gods' away.

The characters are exactly the same as those featured in other of Edding's books (The Belgariad, Mallorean, etc.) just under new names, the plot for this series has dragged out far too long and it's hard to believe there's still another to go. Eddings once said in reply to a fan who wanted to know why he ended the Elenium/Tamuli series where he did that 'The fact that you wanted more is a fair indication that we hung it up at just the right time. The next logical step would probably have been, "Another Sparhawk story? Oh, God, can't he find something else?" ' (www.eddingschronicles.com) and this is exactly how I (and many others, it seems) feel about the Dreamers series.

It's disappointing to see work like this apparently just churned out by Eddings when there are so many other fine novels he's written, and whilst I acknowledge that there's only so much you can do in the fantasy genre before you start repeating themes/characters this really is dire. If this series and this book in particular were my first experience of Eddings then I would never have bothered buying another of his books.

I think I'll take sarjs' advice and go reread classic Eddings - I would highly recommend the Belgariad!

Just ok.
David Eddings is much more capable of writing better than this. I was dissapointed with the story and the way the book repeats, some of the characters remind me of Garion and his friends in the Belgariad. I was hoping that the Dreamers would unleash the classical magic that is his. This book, like the other two before have nothing new to offer it's the same with different names. His other books are far more superior to this latest collection.

Increasingly disappointed
Like many of your reviewers I have been following David Eddings since the Belgariad. This series started well, got a bit stuck in the Treasured One and then completely lost its way in this third episode.
The characters have started to merge into a single character who is too smart for his own good, the plot was missing, the climax was bypassed with a cop-out solution and I don't even see my self buying the final episode just to find out what happens.