King of the Murgos

King of the Murgos

David Eddings

First published 1988Original language EN

7.87.8 / 10
Score out of 10196 ratingsConfidence 57%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
418
Pages
about 8 h
Reading time

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About the book

Here David Eddings’ bestselling The Malloreon continues as the epic quest begins, across new lands and among strange peoples. A magnificent fantasy of men, Kings, sorcerers, and Gods caught up in a death struggle between two ancient, warring Destinies—the culmination of a seven-thousand-year war of Good and Evil. The infant son of Garion and Ce’Ndra had been foully kidnapped. Now they began the great quest to rescue the child, with the immortal Begarath the Sorcerer, his daughter Polgara the Sorceress, and inevitably the little Drasnian, Silk. Guided by the Orb of the God Aldur, their way led through the foul swamps of Nyissa, then into the lands of the Murgos. And at the end, they must face a horrible danger—to themselves and to all mankind. For the Dark Prophecy had not vanished when Garion slew the evil God Torak. Instead, it had fled to Zandramas, who was now the Child of Dark. Dark and Light still contended for mastery, and Zandramas planned to use the child in some rite and the Sardion Stone to insure that the Dark would triumph. If they could not be at that impossible place when Zandramas arrived, they would lose—forever.

Reading order · The Malloreon

Full order & progress →
Score per volume5 volumes on a timeline, 1987 to 1991 · Best-rated volume: King of the Murgos
  1. Guardians of the West
    Guardians of the West1987 · 189 ratingsStart here
    7.87.8 / 10
  2. King of the Murgos
    King of the Murgos1988 · 196 ratingsThis book
    7.87.8 / 10
  3. The Demon Lord of Karanda
    The Demon Lord of Karanda1988 · 169 ratings
    7.87.8 / 10
  4. Sorceress of Darshiva
    Sorceress of Darshiva1989 · 159 ratings
    7.87.8 / 10
  5. The Seeress of Kell
    The Seeress of Kell1991 · 180 ratings
    7.87.8 / 10

Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.8 across 196 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 57% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.8 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Google Books9.014 7%
Hardcover7.7182 93%

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