Wonderful series, but.....
584881
the 4 book boxed set they all fell apart while I was reading them.
An excellent series, poor quality books.
61508
I really do love the series, if there is one criticism it is the overuse of the word seduced...that drove me crazy. There are a lot of errors that should have been caught by the proofreader or editor as well. But I have fallen in love with C.M. Owens  style and talent for creating characters that you will care about.
4963342
This is really a general review of the series as a whole.  First of all, it is great!  Any fan of fantasy will love these books.  Unfortunately I can't give it five stars, because the leangth of the books is not  justified.
1561757
I really like this series, but I won't be able to share it with my young friends. There are sexual scenes and innuendo that are too descriptive.

If there must be a coupling, I prefer it to be the type where it is more implied. There were definitely several pages that needed to be skipped.

Other than that disappointment (which I know is not a deal breaker for everyone) I thought the storyline was great!
1206087
This whole series is super fantastic,if you can watch it in your bedroom with headphones,do so! Language is really bad and sex scenes are every where plus the violence is very graphic. I loved,loved,loved this series!
1907068
I love this series and the DVD's are great ....except for one major issue... Series 3, the first episode.. the sound and video are not in sync. The whole first episode is messed up. I also found one small same issue on series 2.
It deserves 5 stars if there were no problems. These problems are major and  better be fixed. and replaced!!!!
1722956
The writing itself is very well done. It kept me reading without a break.  The entire series needs better editing before publication.  Mispelled words or wrong words were too prevalent for a professional product.  Secondly, the author repeats way too much of the previous book in the series.  Book three uses 15+% of the beginning of book three repeating book two and then ends with 4% selling  book number four.  I am already sold on the series, please stop wasting my time repeating things.  I would sooner pay more and have less repeat.
4188231
I love the series but took a star away for excessive swearing.  It's worse when you add the audio, which I do. You really notice it more when it's spoken aloud.
3945986
I love this series, but agree with the reviewer who says the last few books have been darker, focused on repercussions of Jake's distant past.  There was too much violence for my taste.  I'm downgrading this series, for myself, from Buy in Hardcover As Soon As It Comes Out, to Get From the Library or Wait for Paperback.
1766500
I truly enjoy the series.
I did notice quite a few grammatical errors n this book...missing words, a wrong character named....not proofed well
122965
Actually loved this series, but wish it was longer with more detail.
2468259
The entire series is excellent. The Author did a remarkable job, so please keep them coming.
Why I don't give 5 stars? It should be re-edited with the goal to be a bit shorter. But no big deal.
4583443
I first encountered The Belgariad during my senior year of high school.  Without giving away my age in specifics, let me just say that was a very long time ago.  I was hooked a few chapters into the first book, and I happily remain so today.  Typically, I read through the entire Belgariad and Mallorean series every few years.  To each his or her own of course, but personally I adore Eddings' writing style, and his ability to create believable, multi-dimensional characters is beyond outstanding.  I heartily give a full five stars to these magnificent books.

Unfortunately, I need to revoke a few of those stars for the Kindle version.  I'm not sure who's in charge of editing and proofreading these things, but for heaven's sake someone has to do a better job.  I encountered numerous typos in both Pawn of Prophecy and Queen of Sorcery.  To be fair, I haven't yet got into Magician's Gambit so I cannot speak for that book.  One particularly glaring example is the mistaken use of the word "throe" in place of what most likely should have been "thy."  The problem is, it doesn't just show up once; it happens numerous times in both Pawn and Queen.  Obviously someone majorly messed up a "find and replace" function during the editing process.  Another error that happens more than once (although not nearly as much as the "throe" debacle) is the number 1 being tacked onto the character Durnik's name.  So what should be "Durnik" is instead "Durnik1".  Okay, maybe it's just me but I actually laughed at that one because I couldn't help but imagine Durnik having a Yahoo screen name or some such.

In the end, the typos aren't nearly enough to ruin the experience of being able to bring these books along with you in one convenient, easy to read format.  But it definitely is something I hope the publisher takes care of soon.

Lastly, I certainly hope the final two books of the series are eventually added to Kindle.  It would really be annoying to have to switch out to my old paperbacks after being able to take the first of these old classics in on my shiny new Paperwhite.
3186375
I've been a Matlock fan for many years and looked forward to purchasing the complete series which included Seasons 8 and 9.  I love the series, and it has been fun to see episodes that I missed.  I have two complaints.  The primary complaint is in the viewing quality of the discs.  Although I am still viewing Season 1, I have spot checked all the discs through Season 9, and all are very grainy rather than sharp and clear.  There is no comparison to the quality of the Columbo series that I recently purchased through Amazon.  The only other negative to the purchase of this series is that it does not come in a box for storing the cases.  I'm not sorry that I purchased the series because I am enjoying each episode, however, I do wonder if there might be a better quality product available.  If not, then purchase the series and enjoy!!!
3030001
**Spoiler Alert**

I've read the entire ghost series so far and love them!  Great intrigue, fantastic situations, great descriptive scenes in a VERY richly devised society. Some of my examples may have spoilers, so caution!

Seriously though, I would give every book in the entire series a 5 star rating were it not for the GROSS grammatical errors.  For instance "...and his HILT dropped to the HAND of his sword." This and many MANY other editing (or conversion(?)) errors that should NOT have appeared in a professionally written book were very detracting from the story.

This and other things such as story errors (the author's fault in this case - not the editors) inconsistencies such as (to name just one)of WHEN Caina had seen her father last, in some areas throughout the series the author says she saw him last in the library, glassy eyed and unmoving, in other places it mentions dead by the hand of Maglarion, which occured an uncounted number of days later in Maglarion's hideout.  This is an inconsistency that should NOT happen!  There are many more of these story inconistencies here and there.

As I said, were it not for these egregious errors, I would rate the entire series, EVERY book, a 5 Star Rating.
4513240
I loved this entire series.  I too found many grammar errors that were annoying.  I checked the author and found that he was born in Germany so I'm wondering if these books were written in another language and when they were translated to English the grammar was not translated correctly; which would count for the grammar errors.  Either way, I'm hoping for a book 10!!
2178624
I own the entire series and have enjoyed all of the episodes.  The writing for this series was very good and the characters that came and went were wonderful.  The series ended with a silly episode, however, it was apropriate and the final sequence was pricless!