Dreamers, The by David Eddings

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Submitted by Jimmy Chandra 
(Nov 08, 2006)

I read almost all of Eddings' books except for Regina's Song and some other like Losers (might pick them up one day). You can easily recognized Eddings' writing style on this series. The storyline is almost the same as the rest of his books. Frankly, after reading Belgariad, Mallorean (which are still my favorites amongst all of their works), Sparhawk, etc., this series (Dreamers) and along with Althalus could not really capture my attention fully. I found myself getting tired of reading the same thing over and over again. Mind you, I still finish them just to read it, but it did not excite me like when I first read their earliest works. I found myself reading this when I was trying to go to sleep and other spare time that I could't find anything else to do. I am quite disappointed with their work lately (since Althalus). The humor and the story are quite bland and predictable. The protagonist are basically invincible and the antagonist are just there to be slaughtered. I mean... come on... Why hire the stupid outsider armies just to show them that whee... I am an almighty god that can do anything I want, and if you go against me, you'll be squashed like all these bugs here in my domain, la di da. Oh boy... sorry, got carried away there, but really... Eddings... please, come up with better stories. I want to feel excited for the heroes, want to be scared of the bad guys, and like what you guys did on your earlier works, I want to be able to not put down the books even if my eyes are tired from reading.

REading this series of books I noticed that there are a lot of similarities with other titles that Eddings has wrote. This is evident in the content and also the way characters act, this can be shown by Eleira in the Dreamers and Flute/Aphrael in the Elenium and The Tamuli. Eddings is a master of describing places in his books in an almost poetic way. In the crystal gorge he doesn't just say that it is a valley of quartz he adds through a character the colourt pink and makes reference to the fact that a Character has a pink Pearl. I think that Eddings is a master of writing Fantasy and there is a serious message to his books especially this series but he also adds the light relief of comedy through certain characters, in this case Rabbit and Red Beard mostly. I hope that he continues to write quality material for a long time to copme.

This series, although it may not be quite as sophisticated as his other works, is still a fantastic series, and I can't wait for the fourth book. It takes work to get the timeline sorted out, as it repeats events through different eyes, it is on roughly the same reading level as the Belgariad, not quite as sophisticated as the mallorean, the elenium or the tamuli. However, I think this is mainly to do with the new characters, as in the first book, David Eddings would still be getting used to their quirks, and has nothing to do with Leigh Eddings being named as an author of it. I think the characters are delightful, particularly Eleria, the humour she puts into the books maybe a little juvenile, but this is explained by the fact she is a young girl. This is not, unlike many of his other books, a book packed with laughs, and has a more sophisticated sense of humour. It may not have Prince Keldar to liven it up, but the characters are each individual. It is a masterpiece of writing, even if you do not think it on a parr with his other books.

This series is utterly amazing, i found it much more entrancing then any other Eddings books i've read before. Finally one without a quest for a blue stone! But, seriously, there was a much greater depth to this series than in any of his others. The perfectly balanced blend of humour and seriousness makes it all the better. I truly could not put it down, as soon as i finished all the books in the series that i had, i had to turn around and read them through again. They were just that good.