Domes of Fire

by David Eddings

Book Overview

Danger stalked Queen Ehlana's realm. When an ambasador from the far-off Tamul Empire begged for help, Sparhawk, Ehlana's champion and Prince Consort, was the Emperor's last hope. For surely the knight who had killed the evil God Azash could prevail against the terror in Tamul. But waiting for him was a glittering court seething with corruption, treachery--and the greatest danger Sparhawk would ever face!

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345373219
• ISBN13: 9780345373212
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

And Now for the Rest of the Story

The Tamuli is the follow series to the Elenium, Eddings' first essay into the world of the Elenes, It is some six years later, Sparhawk is now Ehlana's husband and Prince Consort, Sephrenia and Vanion have withdrawn from the Elene kingdoms back to the Styric homeland, and Aphrael is incarnated as Ehlana's child Danae. For a while things have been peaceful, but something strange is happening in the kingdom of Lamork. Suddenly ancient heroes start reappearing, agents are fomenting rebellion, and not a few mythical monsters are reappearing. Sparhawk investigates and realized that the problem is even more widespread than was believed. When he reports back to the Archprelate he discovers that the wave of trouble that is starting in the Elene kingdoms is under full steam in the Tamuli continent of Daresia. He finds himself invited to Matherion to come to the aid of the Emperor. Ehlana isn't about to let Sparhawk wander off by himself and Emperor Sarabian's invitation is used as the excuse for a full state visit. Everyone goes. Once again Eddings starts out by using the plot device of a long journey across the kingdoms of Daresia as a time for some adventures, a lot of background filling, and the deployment of a new set of charaters. He has become quite exper at this and this grand tour manages to be interesting and avoid repeating itself. The last part of the book takes place in Matherion where immediate problems come to a head, old enemies return to the fray and, as an appetizer, we get one last battle to end the first volume. Domes of Fire is very nicely done. It avoids the overdone repetitiveness that kept the Malloreon from being a success. It is, so far, the best piece of writing that Eddings has done. There is a great deal that is new, even though the core novel is straight out of the author's stylebook. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.

The new adventures of Sparhawk

~The Tamuli is the follow-up trilogy for the brilliant The Elenium, which introduced a hero, called Sparhawk, and followed him on his quest to save his queen, and ultimately his entire world, from the clutches of the e~ details, that might need further explaining. When I first read Domes of Fire, the first book of The Tamuli, I was genuinely impressed, with how well this book took up the very points I had been wondering about... plu~ description of the world thay live in, and of the new continent Daresia in particular. The Tamuli is well worth the effort of buying if you like David Eddings special writing-style. If you have not read The Elenium,

The Tamuli

Once again, David Eddings wizardry of the word has created a fantasy classic. I would certainly recommend this book as a must read. J.C. Allen

Intriguing plot mixed with good old Eddings

This book is a change in Eddings' writing from sword and sorcery fantasy to a more sophisticated political yarn. It sets the stage for a predictable conclusion in later books, which show a Hollywood-level failing that the reader knows that there is no real danger to the main characters whatsoever (although I suppose Troll Gods aren't exactly Hollywood). Because this "setting the stage" part is the only part of the series that doesn't write itself, I liked this book the best of the trilogy, although it retains a few common faults of the author and genre, such as the simple race-stereotypes of characters. And what's with that mangled Irish dialect? After tredging through three books of that it gets a tad much. Hmm, this makes me want to go back to Guardians of the West...

It seems to be the same things as the other books...awesome!

This book was really good. David Eddings' writing continues to impress my young mind. The only problem that I see with this is if you compare it to the Belgariad,then they're pretty much along the same lines. This book itself showed no hints of it being anything the same. Even though this was the first book I think it was the best one for the series since it showed no hint of similarities. As I sit in Sunday school I'm realizing what Eddings is REALLY doing though. In a subtle way he's adding speculations about religion. I noticed this during Sunday school when my teacher was talking to us