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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4820002" data-attributes="member: 8863">Never read it (The Dreamers that is) myself, but I'd say Edding's writing peaked at Belgarath the Sorcerer.  Both the Elenium and Tamuli made good use of his usual formula (though the Tamuli used a recently published academic paper rather than ancient mythological writings for the first two intros instead).  Belgarath went differently, probably because the main storyline WAS the myths and history, so instead we have stuff happening after the Mallorean bookending the story as Prologue and Epilogue.Anyway, Belgarath switched to a more informal first-person narrative rather than the typical third person view he used in the other books.  However, I think it ended up being one of the best written of all the books he did, weaving together the grand scope of the world's history with Belgarath's personal experiences through that history.  He did nearly the same thing with Polgara the Sorceress, but while that book had some good moments, it felt weaker overall. Not just because it rehashed a lot of the stuff from the previous book, but there was some stuff that just felt weaker.</blockquote>