Belgariad

Hello. First of all a warning. This post may contain spoilers about the first book in the Belgariad series, Pawn of Prophicy. Do not moan at me if I ruin some parts.

Belgariad - The Pawn of Prophicy.

I just finished the first instalment of the Belgariad series and I was blown away with how much I enjoyed it. It's certainly my kind of book, magic and sorcery mixed in with a fantasy world of which David Eddings is pretty free to do what he wants. It's a human land too, as far as I'm aware, so there's no dealing with elves or dwarves or any other races. Which is nice, although there are almighty gods who created the world and each have there own race of humans, the same way we follow different gods and are different orientations.

Anyway, the story follows a young boy called Garion, who slowly matures into a man throughout the story. Garion is an orphan of sorts, staying in the care of his aunt, although she's not really his aunt. The twist is, although this is just me guessing, his aunt is actually a thousand year old sorcerer and the daughter to the great Belgarath. A man who was actually tutored by a god and is over 7000 years old.

The plot of the book is a bit shifty, I'm not entirely sure what's happening as Eddings doesn't do much to go into detail about the quest but does just enough to keep you guessing about what's going to happen, who they're after and why. It's almost as if we the reader only know as much as Garion does, and almost all of the other characters do their best to keep Garion ignorant of his past and soon to gain inheritance.

I'm much looking forward to reading the next instalment of the series, just downloaded it onto my Kindle and am about to have a read. Either that or Rangers Apprentice, I'm yet to decide.