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Volume 1 of The Dreamers, remember?
 
More of the same stuff.  Story somewhat different, though many of the same elements.  Because it's Eddings, the characters are easy to get to know (in fact, you sort of know them already) and the story is an easy read.  But because it's Eddings, you've seen it all before.  It worked great the first time, and okay the second time, but they should really come up with new characters.  Leah and I were talking about this last night and offhand we were able to come up with several "favorite" authors who wrote new, interesting characters every time that were easy to tell apart.  Here you're saying to yourself, "hey, that's something Silk would do" or "she sounds just like Polgara there" or "sure, just like Belar".  Oh, and there are at least two powerful, magic jewels in this one.  That's new, at least.  Oh, wait, it isn't.
 
You can skip this one and you won't be missing much.

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