Reading it again gave me such a profound sense of joy there are no words to express well enough. This is the book that turned me from a non-reader to a reader when I was 12. If it wasn't for this book, there would be no blog, and I probably wouldn't have read all the hundreds of books I've read. Kings and nobles are met along the way, who treat Mister Wolf and Aunt Pol with the utmost respect, and Garion slowly comes to realise that these people may not actually be who he thought they were. Whisked away from everything he knows, Garion travels with Aunt Pol and the Storyteller he calls Mister Wolf into the unknown - never knowing what they're doing, what they're trying to find, and why. Until one day the Storyteller arrives at the farm and urgently needs Aunt Pol to go with him to recover something that has been stolen. But they're all just stories, and nothing that will touch his life. He loves hearing the tales of myth and legend the stories of the Gods and the wars of the past, of how evil God Torak stole the Orb of power from his brother Aldur, and how the sorcerer Belgarath fought to get it back with men from Aloria. Garion is a young, oridinary boy living on Faldor's Farm with his Aunt Pol, the farm's cook.

So I originally said that I wouldn't be moving straight on to The Belgariad series after finishing Eddings' Tamuli trilogy, but my Kindle was dead, and was taking forever to charge, so I decided to read this series instead as it was calling me. Brought up on a quiet farm by his Aunt Pol, how could he know that the Apostate planned to wake dread Torak, or that he would be led on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger by those he loved-but did not know.? From Goodreads So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, men would be safe.īut Garion did not believe in such stories. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings - Long ago, the Storyteller claimed, in this first book of THE BELGARIAD, the evil god Torak drove men and Gods to war.