Upon finishing 'Seeress of Kell' (book five in the Mallorean) I'm not ashamed to admit that I shed a tear at having to leave the side of each and every one of these wonderfully drawn characters. So while I may be tempted to remove a star, because I've since read better, I recall vividly how much I enjoyed these books and I realise how ungrateful that would be.
Although since reading this series I've read far superior novels in the genre, the Eddings husband & wife partnership still can't be beaten in many ways. Garion, Polgara and Garath are all introduced here for the first time and very soon they'll become entrenched in your imagination and as the quest they embark upon gains pace and we learn ever stranger and ever more fateful details about our young hero only becomes harder not to love these characters, especially after ten books travelling along beside them through good times, bad times and truly horrific times. The characters are vivid, the story is effortlessly gripping and the cliffhanger endings that draw each book to a close are impossible to endure for even a millisecond. This was one of the first fantasy stories I ever read and what an introduction it was! I read this whole series of books (ten in all- five in the Belgariad set and five in the Mallorean series) over a three month period while commuting to work by train and I missed my station more than once as a result of this utterly engrossing and enchanting series.
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