Rdemption of Althalus, The by David Eddings

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Submitted by Anonymous 
(Jun 20, 2004)

I have been reading the novels of David Eddings since fourth grade. I'm not lying, in fact, I have no reason to lie. Anyway, I have always loved his books. However, The Redemption of Althalus, in my opinion, was poor in comparison to the Belgariad or The Mallorean. To me, the characters seemed overly exaggerated. The erections of the characters seemed over played, much like a new T.V series. It seemed to me that David Eddings had slipped, and had sort of rushed the writing of the novel. I enjoyed it, and even though I may very well be another ignorant 13 year old, but I feel that the novel had potential to be as well-written as the Belgriad and Malloreon, but it did not live up to my expectations..

It is my belief that this book was one of his/her best works yet. Redemption was a one-time hit and could not have been stretched out into a series. The ending was open ended, but what story that Eddings wrote did NOT end without a few unanswered questions? The overall bad guy was defeated, thus there isn't a story afterwards.

I'm probably another one of the young readers to read this book. Twelve, and reading more and more of Davids books. I dont feel like submitting to the under 13 section :P... Well, this book is clearly amazing. I like the magic doors, great idea there. I think he thought of that from something he wrote in The Tamuli Series, having to do with Bhelliom. I have yet to read the Belgariad and the Mallorean, though. The characters in The Redemption of Althalus all have well thought out personalitys, historys, and back grounds.

I also like the wars, using great military influence on it and also the sub characters like Cheif Albron and various others, like Cheif Gosti.

I am probably one of the youngest or maybe even the youngest reader to write a review on the Eddings books...I found this book very intriguing. The sort which you can read easily.

Once you start reading, you just have to continue, it's like this sudden urge to read. This kind of book is always better to buy than to borrow from the library, seeing as though it's rather thick (well...at least I think so). It's also the kind of book you have to stop and think about. Like when it comes to Emmy's sarcasm, you have to detect it by yourself without any hints. It's usually not an easy think for a thirteen year old, but I found it rather straightforward. Eddings has a way of putting their humor in sarcasm, and I think that's very witty.

About the book again, It got rather boring at certain areas, since one part was emphasized a bit too much. It could waste an awful lot of time. Like the parts where they travelled..just to amuse you, there were all these bits and pieces of conversations, which I found very unneccesary.

Otherwise, the book in it's own way was very wittily put together, in the sense that the storyline was great and the characters were constructed in such a way that they all had their own point of views. And the point of views were seen through the Eddings' point of views. And with both their talents put together, they can constructed such an excellent book, though, yes...I HAVE read better books of theirs ... such as Belgarath the Sorcerer. I found that better.

From the very beginning of this book I thought it was poor. I have read most of Eddings other works and found them brilliant. This, however, was a poor effort. The plot neither developed or continued fluently. To me it seemed Althalus was going from place to place, with little or no reason other than 'the knife said so'. This would have been slightly easier to get along with if the jumps from place to place were obviously there to collect a group of characters. The idea may have seemed interesting to the authors but I found it dragged.