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David Eddings
Leigh Eddings
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ISBN | 978-000715760 | ||
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Synopsis
New series, new world, and a glorious story destined to reach the biggest audience yet. They are called the Dreamers. They look like sleeping children. They are, in fact, Gods. There are eight elder Gods, four awake, four asleep, by turns. When they sleep, they sleep for eons. The only time the Gods are vulnerable is when the sleepers awake. Knowing this, the Ruler of the Wasteland, ambitious to become a God by destroying Gods, watches and waits, marshalling troops for war. So it is that the coming of the Dreamers passes unnoticed in the Wasteland. But the world is soon out of kilter, it is being dreamed, and the awakening of gods is no simple transition. The sleeping Gods are stirring. When they wake the battle will begin. There will be trickery and deception. Tribes of humans, creatures of the deep, the sea itself and the earth, the weather and the divinities, all will play their part in the epic struggle against the Ruler of the Wasteland. In their own exquisitely effortless style, David and Leigh Eddings weave a web around the reader of magic, mystery and humour. The Elder Gods is the first in a new and eagerly anticipated series of four books from the bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings. It is a magical, action-packed, totally engaging and characterful novel on the grandest scale.
Review
The Dreamers - David and Leigh Eddings
There are four books in the Dreamer series: The Elder Gods; The The Treasured One; The Crystal Gorge; and The Younger Gods.
There are 8 Elder Gods, 4 awake and 4 asleep, who rule the Land of Dhrall in turns. When they sleep it is for eons. The only time they are vulnerable is when the sleepers awaken. The Vlagh, ruler of the Wasteland, knows this and has hatched a plan to destroy all the Gods so that she may rule all of the the Land of Dhrall. Only with the help of the outlanders is there a hope that all the Gods and their people may survive.
Overall I enjoyed the books, but they suffered from the fact that I have read almost all of their other books and could see virtual carbon copies of characters resurfacing in this series. Longbow is a Sparhawk of the Elenium and Tamuli reborn and the Goddess Eleria/Balacenia is Aphrael with Polgara turning up as Ara, a wise woman with a penchant for hearty flavoursome cooking!!!
All that aside, I did enjoy reading The Dreamers books and would recommend them to anyone who likes David and Leigh Eddings books already and for those who like the likes of Raymond E. Feist. The series losing some steam towards the end but there is a likeable enough conclusion to the story as a whole.
Maybe I've just read too many books of a similar ilk recently and that has made me less inclined to wax lyrical but I would definately ask people to give the series a shout.
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