I guess one benefit to Eddings habit of making it clear chapters if not books in advance what the big reveal will be is that by the time it happens its so damn expected go through the motions and details is redundant. The urge to reach into the book and grab Garion and go "You're the prophesied sorcerer king with a badass sword who is supposed to try to kill a God you moron!" is often overwhelming. It's almost relieving that after Adara leaves huge hints to the readers in book 4 [which Garion totally misses as always] the actually situation resolves itself very quickly, if unrealistically.