The Sapphire Rose (The Elenium) Mass Market Paperback – November 23, 1992

A good fantasy story line by the authors of the Belgariad/Malorian sets of books. Yes, I said "authors" -- as I understand it David Eddings cowrote these books with his wife, Leigh Eddings, though originally only he was listed as author because of the publisher's insistence that single-author novels sell better than multi-authored novels.The Elenium and Tamul series have a different set of characters and different setting than the Belgariad and Malorian series. I have yet to read the Tamul series (though I plan to), but I quite enjoyed the Elenium series. I found the Belgariad and Malorian series to be better developed and more satisfying overall, but both story lines are quite entertaining. I plan to not only continue with the Tamul books, but to read anything else by these two authors I can find.My one criticism of the Elenium series is the overuse of "bleak" and "bleakly". I personally feel that most of the time these words were used other synonyms could have been utilized more effectively, and the sheer frequency of the usage gives the narrative a feeling of less time spent, less care taken developing it. Looking past this one failing, however, I find I quite enjoy the humor popping in at odd moments, and the books did give some surprises I did not anticipate. We will likely order these books on Audible, too, for playing in the car on road trips. Our entire family has quite enjoyed listening to the Belgariad/Malorian books in the car, and I think they will also enjoy these, too.

I absolutely love David Eddings and adore all three books of this series. I used to have these books years ago and due to moving constantly I somehow lost them. I just recently reordered book two and three to reread them. I cant seem to put them down!! Everytime I immerse myself into this story I cannot put it down. I get really into the book and laugh and cry at some points. The writing is amazing and keeps me memorized through the whole book!! Definitely on my favorite books shelf.

It's a classic book from masters of the genre but the fact that the kindle edition costs more than the paperback is quiet annoying. also it's a hit and miss on the books available in your region as some of the books are not available in my country so watch out you may not be able to get a full kindle set.

I have most of david eddings books and I enjoy them very much and would recommend them highly a good place to start is the belgariad but all are so good......

Very happy with the book was just what I was looking for thanks

The only bad thing I can say is that you can't get the second trilogy on Kindle, thank goodness I have the hard copies of all of them.

Endings is one of my favorite authors. This is the last book in a trilogy

One of my favorite authors. If you've read the Elenium I suggest following with the Tamuli which is phenomenal in the way it deals with characters I won't spoil.

This whole trilogy is incredible. I think is truly one of the best in the category.

Have read this series before and enjoyed it and will probably read it again in the future. My favourite though is the Belgarion series.

Thank you David and Leigh Eddings for writing this book. I enjoyed reading this book although you are not with us anymore. I thank you in spirit.

Excellent series

keep me wanting to read more