Mr Brooks has done a good job here…worth a look. I really liked this book and I am not a big fan of these fantasies that revolve around swords, elves, demons and wizards. You have the ever present mystery figure of Allanon and the Terry Brooks constant Ohmsford family person in this series. You love the hero and you hate and fear the opposing characters. The Elfstones of Shannara does this well. We all want to read a book with a series of characters we can identify with accompanied by a great story. It is the characters in books that do it for me. The interaction between Ander and Arion and Eventine was much more involved in this book and I liked that that Ander became the better of the two. Not to be a spoiler but Cephelo died much too easily in this book. That being said, the interaction between Will and Amberle and Eretria was very interesting. The character of the Dagda Mor is much more scary than on the series but the confrontation between him and Allanon was a bit disappointing in this book. The impending loss of the Ellcrys, the journey to Safehold in search of th e Bloodfire, is very compelling, even more so than the TV series. This story, although in the same Shannara universe, is much different. Throughout The Sword of Shannara, I was distracted by the obvious connection to The Lord of The Rings. The characters of Wil Ohmsford and Amberle are much easier to connect to than the ones in The Sword. I liked this book much more than The Sword.
I\’m back in my sci-fi fantasy world now and happy to be back. I actually finished this books weeks ago but was reading another that was a real slog to get through. I was pleased to visit again with Allanon, Eventine and even old Flick. As I mentioned in my review of The Sword of Shannara, I decided to try some of these Terry Brooks books after seeing the MTV series.
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