As the Elder Gods are portrayed in this book, Eddings too is suffering from senility. Lord this is by far the most boring, predictible and rehashed of his books. IF you are a long time Eddings fan and over the age of 18, SKip this series. He offers nothing new, and is just a rehashing of his older masterpieces. This series isnt even worthy of 4 books... the whole series could have and should have been written down to 2 or 3. The characters are all the same, and the same old 'witty sardonic' humor Eddings is famous for is over used here. EVERYCHARACTER thinks they are funny and GOD the dialogue is just repeated over and over and over. These books are such fluff and a waste of a read. Read the Belgariad, the Mallorian, the Sparhawk books, but skip this series