The Shining Ones

The Shining Ones

David Eddings

First published 1993Original language EN

7.77.7 / 10
Score out of 1084 ratingsConfidence 36%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
472
Pages
about 9 h
Reading time

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About the book

Years ago, the Child-Goddess Aphrael had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power, at the bottom of the sea. Yet now it is needed again to stop a malign force from spreading evil and destruction across the lands. Sparhawk, Queen's champion, sets out to retrieve the Stone. But others seek the gem for their own diabolical ends. Most fearsome of these are the Shining Ones, whose mere touch melts human flesh from bone. Now Sparhawk finds himself stalked by these creatures out of myth...whose touch is all too real.

Description: publisher’s blurb via Hardcover

Reading order · The Tamuli

Full order & progress →
Score per volume3 volumes on a timeline, 1992 to 1994 · Best-rated volume: The Shining Ones
  1. Domes of Fire
    Domes of Fire1992 · 96 ratingsStart here
    7.77.7 / 10
  2. The Shining Ones
    The Shining Ones1993 · 84 ratingsThis book
    7.77.7 / 10
  3. The Hidden City
    The Hidden City1994 · 83 ratings
    7.77.7 / 10

Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.3 across 84 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 36% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.7 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Hardcover7.384 100%

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It has 472 pages — shorter than 61% of the ranked books in Fantasy.

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