This book seemed eerily fitting for my recent travels, watching England open up again, declaring premature victory over a disease that didn’t know it was fighting a war against the obese British spirit.

I read The Killing Moon on my quest to find “comparative literature” for my fantasy novel - The Three Lovers: Mirror Of Death.

As with every list, this comes with a preface that these are my PERSONAL choices, completely idiosyncratic, with all my biases.

I read these four books as I was finishing a draft of my own fantasy novel, and they were a brilliant companion.

In the original AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide, Gary Gygax wrote a brilliant Appendix (N), which was a list of all the inspirational fantasy and science-fiction reading for aspiring Dungeon Masters.  I’ve compiled my own list…

The Belgariad has truly loveable characters, the mythology is interesting, the names and settings are trope-laden but memorable. It’s still one of my favourite fantasy series despite all the flaws.

I thought it a beautiful series, with a charm that made the interweaving “Chosen One” storyline and Arthurian Mythology somehow shine, proving that cliches can go beyond their source material with a gifted writer who has a different take.

In this review I will attempt to review the series as a whole, whilst also talking a little about the books separately.

I never fudge (fake) dice rolls.