The Seeress of Kell, By David Eddings
Drumroll please…the final book of the Mallorean! The conclusion! The answer to most if not all of your questions! The company travels to Kell for the final revelation of the prophecy: the discovery of the location of the Place Which is No More. It happens to be the mountains of Korim that sank into the ocean when Torak cracked the earth, but a final journey to Perivor will reveal to them the exact location. And as an added surprise, the Seer Cyradis will be traveling with them. And at this ultimate location an ultimate decision will be made: the Seers of Kell are going to pick the new God of Angarak. If Cyradis chooses wrong…no one wants to live in such a world. Not even Torak himself wanted that.
Is it safe to say that most of you will be able to figure out the end of this book without reading it? Most likely. But if you skip this book, you will miss untold fun. Perivor, for instance. A long lost ship of Mimbrate Arends shipwrecked there once, married the local populace, and continued in their long traditions of hitting each other with big sticks and using flowery language. Seriously, you don’t want to miss this part. Zakath has turned into a tolerably nice person, leading to a wonderful discussion between him and Garion about the war that might have happened between them. It might have actually been in the last book, but it was still great. ‘You know that war we were going to fight? Do you mind if I just don’t show up?’ ‘I can always start without you. You can stop by once in a while to see how it’s going.’ Priceless. And Cyradis herself is quite pleasant.
My biggest complaint about this series is that one, it repeats itself after a while. I swear we repeated even all the jokes twice. Two, that so many characters start to pile up that we lose track of some of them, even if they’re in the same group. They just drop out of the picture for chapters and chapters. If you’ve got that many characters, it’s usually a sign that you need less.
But as a final conclusion of the Mallorean I will urge all of you to try to pick it up. It’s fun, it’s decent writing, good characters, many laughs, and easily appreciable by many people. If you don’t like it, then I apologize but thank you for trying.
Is it safe to say that most of you will be able to figure out the end of this book without reading it? Most likely. But if you skip this book, you will miss untold fun. Perivor, for instance. A long lost ship of Mimbrate Arends shipwrecked there once, married the local populace, and continued in their long traditions of hitting each other with big sticks and using flowery language. Seriously, you don’t want to miss this part. Zakath has turned into a tolerably nice person, leading to a wonderful discussion between him and Garion about the war that might have happened between them. It might have actually been in the last book, but it was still great. ‘You know that war we were going to fight? Do you mind if I just don’t show up?’ ‘I can always start without you. You can stop by once in a while to see how it’s going.’ Priceless. And Cyradis herself is quite pleasant.
My biggest complaint about this series is that one, it repeats itself after a while. I swear we repeated even all the jokes twice. Two, that so many characters start to pile up that we lose track of some of them, even if they’re in the same group. They just drop out of the picture for chapters and chapters. If you’ve got that many characters, it’s usually a sign that you need less.
But as a final conclusion of the Mallorean I will urge all of you to try to pick it up. It’s fun, it’s decent writing, good characters, many laughs, and easily appreciable by many people. If you don’t like it, then I apologize but thank you for trying.
posted by Tai Schutz | Friday, February 23, 2007
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