Precitable and Fun, a Typical Brooks FantasyĪll of Terry Brook’s novels, at least the Shannara novels, follow the same basic template. Lets call them such, shall we? The narrator was excellent 'tho. And what?s with all the female character?s being called ?girl? The author refers to Preia as ?the elf girl? and Merrith as the ?druid girl? but the male characters are all called ?men? come on now. Not quite up to par with the rest of the books. The romances were hasty and very contrived. If a story is going to have romance in it. But the rest of the characters had as much personality as department store mannequins.

I felt sorry for him and the pain/sacrifice he bore at times. The only person I actually really liked was Bremen. The three major romantic relationships featured in this book are quite dysfunctional. Relationships are passionless and handled poorly. Reluctant to become involved, reluctant to believe, reluctant to wield the sword properly. They are out to find/forge the sword of Shannara, and everyone is reluctant. There is a druid muttering some mystic mumbo-jumbo.

For some reason the plot failed to grab me. I listened to the audio version of Firstling of Shannara, and while I enjoyed the narration, I found the story a little boring and predictable.

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