The Belgariad · Book 2
Queen of Sorcery
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 332
- ISBN-13
- 9780552168342
- Type
- novel
About this book
Queen of Sorcery, also published in 1982, is the second book at 332 pages, more than 70 pages longer than the series opener released the same year. Garion's quest with his aunt Pol and grandfather-figure Belgarath continues across the squabbling kingdoms of the continent, part of the single continuous story the five Belgariad books tell together.
Its place in The Belgariad
Queen of Sorcery is book 2 in the The Belgariad series. It follows Pawn of Prophecy. It is followed by Magician's Gambit. See the full The Belgariad reading order.
The Belgariad opens with Garion, a farm boy on Faldor's farm who has no idea he's the last in an ancient line of sorcerer-kings, swept into a quest alongside his aunt Pol and grandfather-figure Belgarath when a stolen jewel of world-shaping power, the Orb of Aldur, is taken north by a Grolim priest. What follows across five books is a five-thousand-year-old prophecy working itself out through an unlikely party -- a horse thief, a Drasnian spymaster princess, a Cherek warrior prince, an Algar horse lord -…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780552168342