The Seeress of Kell

David Eddings. Del Rey Books, $7.99 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-345-37759-3

This anticlimactic conclusion to a quintet begun with Guardians of the West spent nine weeks on PW 's hardcover bestseller list. Eddings's latest, The Losers , will be published by Fawcett Columbine in June. (May)

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