A Short Article on First Reading Pawn of Prophecy

Rather than try to recapitulate the plot or stylistically analyse the novel I put forward the impact that a first encounter with Eddings had upon an eleven year old boy.
Absent from school through sickness on a friday morning back in 1991 I picked up an arrestingly covered book that I had borrowed from the school library a couple of days previously. Under the aegis of a duvet I still remember the sense of thrill and wonder that ran through me as Garion and Rundorig reenacted Brand the Rivan Warden and Torak's duel at the Battle of Vo Mimbre. I...