The Diamond Throne

The Elenium, Book 1

By: David Eddings

Narrated by: Greg Abby

Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

Sparhawk, the Pandion Knight and Queen's Champion, returns from a long spell of exile to find his native land overrun with evil and intrigue, and his young queen grievously ill. Indeed, Ehlana lies magically entombed within a block of crystal, doomed to die unless a cure can be found within a year.

But as Sparhawk and his allies - who include Sephrenia, the ageless sorceress, and Flute, the strange and powerful girl-child - seek to save Ehlana and the land, they discover that the evil is even greater and more pervasive than they had feared.

Listen to another gem in David Edding's Elenium series.

©1989 David Eddings (P)2008 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"[A] graceful, fluid style of storytelling." ( Publishers Weekly)
"[Eddings] draws once more on his particular strengths, combining heroic yet humorous characters with exotic settings and tangled politics to create a fast-moving fantasy that will appeal to his large readership." ( Library Journal)

Wonderful

What did you love best about The Diamond Throne?

It takes a special book to keep my mind off of the fact that I am running and this book did it. I could not wait to get back on the road to listen to my book. Sparhawk is amazing!!!

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Diamond Throne?

I loved it all

Which character – as performed by Greg Abby – was your favorite?

Sparhawk

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

A world where loyalty and honor still drives a man.

Pretty good book

The story is good. I really like the main character in this book and the author has good dialogue. The story made sense but there was something missing I can't put my finger on that kept me from a 5 star rating. It is definitely worth reading but didn't make it into my top 10 or anything.

Good book, bad narrator.

Really can't stand the narrator. Love the book though, just can't struggle through the narrator.

Magically wonderful

I've loved David Eddings for decades. and this just made me happy to listen to.

Big fan

I love it. I'm a big fan. I recommend that everyone should listen, it's great.

the queens champion has a mission

on his return from exile, Sparhawk a Pandion Knight finds the newly appointed queen is deathly sick, the Preceptor of the order and his tutor of magic has joined with eleven others to entomb her in a case of magical diamond to preserve her life. the Primate Annias churchman of the city in blocking there every move to become the head of the whole church.

David Eddings strikes out with a new adventure, where magic can be learned by anyone but the race of Elene people so anti magic they get vicious, even its church does not believe in magic. but the four orders of the Knights of the Church has special permission to learn the magic of the Styrics.

to be able to change his magic to fit into this new world is amazing. it is so different from what he had before. I absolutely love the way he makes the quest important and with a set timeline.

feel free to start with this book the personalities are great and the Eddings do a great job of creating so many different cultures in a novel with each race having its quirks.

Great Book...Bad Reader

David Eddings is one of my favorite authors and I was excited to finally get to sit back and listen to story be read to me...and then I heard the narrator. Even though it has been many years since I read the series the story easily comes back to me but unfortunately it is at the cost of having to wade through one of the worst readers to which I have listened. Mr. Abby comes off as over acting in almost all situations in a melodramatic way that makes me cringe repeatedly. Unfortunately my love for the story will force me to buy the rest of the series and I can only hope that Mr. Abby has picked up some drama classes in between recordings.

great book!!

loved the book! Excellent story, Excellent characters! I only gave 4 stars for the narrator because every so often he would put the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLABle and/or break the word into the wrong syllables especially with impudent and impudently.(proper pronunciation is IMP-you-Dent[lee] not Im-PYOU-dent[lee]). The writing on this book is impeccable. I especially love Sparhawk's and Talen's characters. Ulath, Tynian, Berit, Bevier, Sephrenia and Flute mesh so well together. I love the interplay.

book club choice

Now that I have completed it my book club informs me it is the first of a big series. I cannot sit down to read these huge books, thus why I love audio books!

awesome adventure!!

This is a book that was easy for me to be imagin i was in.