Queen of Sorcery

I’ll keep this short and spoiler free. This is very enjoyable! Classic fantasy can either be a complete bore or manage to deliver a fun and gripping story. The plot in this book is rather simple, the company is still pursuing their mission from book 1 and so we follow their journey through several la......more

A solid second book in this classic epic high fantasy series. This series is like sipping hot chocolate on a cold winter day. It's straightforward, simple, but the foreshadowing is excellent, and it managed to surprise me a few times. Of course, I should have seen it all coming, but I was so entrance......more

For the first half of this book, I was slightly bored and felt that it was an echo of the first one ("they travel, run into enemies and Silk does business, get away, travel, run into enemies and Silk does business, get away..."). I wasn't sure that I would continue reading the series after this book......more

Queen of Sorcery, after another somewhat slow opening, is even more interesting than its predecessor Pawn of Prophecy. The world keeps revealing new and interesting elements, the characters actually develop in realistic and natural ways, and the story keeps maintaining suspense. Particularly the part......more

Queen of Sorcery is the second book in The Belgariad by David Eddings. I enjoyed this a little more than the first book and I'm giving it a full 4 stars instead of 3.5 stars rounded up. It still had some of the same aspects I complained about in the first book, but my investment in the story and the......more