Mildly enjoyable, but not really my thing. I did appreciate that it was relatively short for epic fantasy, and that its pace fairly zipped along instead of continually bogging down with world building and back story; I also liked Polgara. But the horrible prologue (a sort of mythological history of gods) nearly put me off entirely, and if I never read another story wherein peasant-boy-turns-out-to-be-something-else-entirely it will be far, FAR too soon. Unfortunately that trope is reinforced here when half the other characters turn out to be royalty in disguise. I mean there's a token normal person in the mix but that's about it. At some point it's hard not to just roll your eyes and sigh and move on.