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This is the last series of novels written by David Eddings and his wife Leigh and it is one I have very mixed feelings about.
While still having the easy readability of their previous novels, the lighthearted bantering humour and engaging characters have, like the plot, become more puerile with each successive book in this series. There were times I was left feeling disappointed as things just seem to happen and there is no convincing reason for it to be so, granted some of the characters are Gods, but they are not all-powerful, so the question still arises “why did that happen” or “how did they do that” which left me with an unsatisfied feeling. The Younger Gods, being the last book in the series suffers from this symptom the most, it also suffers from information being repeated by several characters to each other and is written as if they haven't heard it before, it also has several scenes that repeat within a few pages, though rather than being a typo error this gives the appearance of there being several drafts of a number of scenes and rather than choose one, both were added, making sure to cut away to another scene before coming back to the one you have just read.
This series of books was also one that I bought out of sequence, buying book three, some five years before book two, both because I was not aware it was the third book and because I had never seen the second book. Luckily, because of the advancement in my Archery judging and the amount of reading I had to undertake with that, the number of books I was reading at the time was well down so I was able to find and purchase the second book before I advanced far enough through my TBR list to reach book three, thus allowing me to read them in the correct order. I had also assumed that this was a trilogy, but in 2021 I became aware of a fourth book, which I purchased and then read in 2022. Having read the previous three it seemed only fitting that I finish the series and read the last book, alas, I wish I hadn't as this was an utter disappointment and has coloured my respect for David Eddings writing ability.
The Elder Gods: The Dreamers: Book 01
The Elder Gods: The Dreamers: Book 01
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.
Format
HardbackDate Acquired
3rd April 2004Retail Cost
£12.99Number of Pages
424Year Read
2005
Crystal Gorge: The Dreamers: Book 03
Crystal Gorge: The Dreamers: Book 03
Despite two devastating defeats, the Vlagh prepares to invade again. Dhrall’s mortal defenders are certain they will prevail—until they learn the Vlagh has created an army of perfect spies, intelligent minions that can blend in with humans.
Far worse: They have no idea where the Vlagh will attack. Will she charge to the north, where the natives are bison and bear hunters? Or will she assault the eastern regions, where peaceful townsfolk worship their goddess in temples?
The battle-hardened veterans of the country’s previous wars don’t have the manpower to fight on two fronts. Will the Vlagh’s minions finally overrun the land of Dhrall?
Format
HardbackDate Acquired
25th December 2005Retail Cost
£18.99Number of Pages
517Year Read
2011
The Treasured One: The Dreamers: Book 02
The Treasured One: The Dreamers: Book 02
Flush from their narrow victory over the horrific Vlagh, Longbow and his companions are drawn to a pastoral territory in south Dhrall, confident that they will thwart the next assault by their inhuman foe.
But on the border of the Wasteland, the Vlagh is breeding a monstrous new army of venomous bat-bugs and armoured spiders. These grotesque legions threaten to overwhelm the allies, who are further shocked by a prophecy delivered by the Dreamers: an invasion by a new, second army. A force of armed acolytes approaches to plunder this unspoiled land in a global holy war. Now farmers and hunters, soldiers and madmen, mortals and gods-all charge to a battle that will decide the fate of the world.
Format
PaperbackDate Acquired
25th December 2010Retail Cost
£7.99Number of Pages
519Year Read
2011
The Younger Gods: The Dreamers: Book 04
The Younger Gods: The Dreamers: Book 04
The exciting final volume in the glorious fantasy series The Dreamers…
The attacks of the dreadful insect queen known as the Vlagh have been repelled in three of the Elder Gods' realms. Now, only the land ruled by the Goddess Aracia remains for the Vlagh to send her hordes to attack.
But while the Gods, their younger avatars and their human comrades have emerged victorious from all previous encounters, this time the Goddess herself may be their greatest foe – she craves worship and hates the idea of being replaced by a younger God when her time comes to an end…and that time is approaching fast.
A mighty conclusion to a fabulous series!
Format
MobiDate Acquired
8th May 2021Retail Cost
£5.49Number of Pages
352Year Read
2022Page updated
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