I think this will all pretty much end where it began. But I don’t think Brooks has the stones to do that. The only difference here is that we have an outside invader who is about to shake things up and perhaps change the destiny of all the races in Shannara, perhaps leaving it forever different. Despite the vast history and tumultuous events that have occurred, nothing has changed. The Four Lands just do not evolve over time. I feel like Brooks has just changed the names and written about the same people again. Sound familiar? The characters just aren’t distinct enough. We have an all-powerful druid leader who is trying to save the land from certain doom. We have a pair of siblings, the brother is trying to murder the sister whilst the sister is intent on saving her fallen brother from madness. I feel like I’ve read this book before because it is so similar to what I have seen before. The problem I have is with Brooks’ inability to devise new plots and characters. It’s a great world, though the more books the author churns out the worse it gets. His world building is strong and it comes with a huge amount of history and lore, some of which stems from previous books. Terry Brooks is a fine writer of fantasy.
It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, where it remained for over five months. He then wrote The Sword of Shannara, the seven year grand result retaining sanity while studying at Washington & Lee University and practicing law. That moment changed Terry's life forever, because in Tolkien's great work he found all the elements needed to fully explore his writing combined in one genre. He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.Ī writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read.
Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy.
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