Title: 3000 long years with no new plotlines
Product review: I'm a huge fan of the Belgarion/Malorion series. I liked the quick wit, the humorous exchanges between the characters,and the plot. I had really been waiting for this new Bel/Mal book to happen.But "Polgara" left me disappointed, retelling that already twice told long story of what Pol and Belgareth did during 3000 years when noting much of a plot happend, before the actual series (Bel /Mal) started. Just adding the angle of Polgara's perception is definately not enough to salt this journal-of-a-time-of-waiting. It has little entertaining value, and a shrill lack of tension. If the Eddingses wanted to show that this is simply what longevity is like, well, than the succeeded. But I think it's a real pitty, because there is so much more that can be done with the good set of characters the they created in the Bel/Mal. I do hope they start a NEW plot/series with them.
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