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3.41 AVERAGE
3.41 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I tried to come in with an opened mind for this book and the algorithm led to me finding very biased responses.
Yes, there are some familiar tropes from other fantasy worlds. But I also understand nothing is truly original while there can be intriguing or new ways to include these favorited elements.
This was a fascinating epic with some of my favorite elements of fantasy. You get the satisfaction of no stone left unturned.
I will definitely be finishing this series and reading the High Druid trilogy.
Yes, there are some familiar tropes from other fantasy worlds. But I also understand nothing is truly original while there can be intriguing or new ways to include these favorited elements.
This was a fascinating epic with some of my favorite elements of fantasy. You get the satisfaction of no stone left unturned.
I will definitely be finishing this series and reading the High Druid trilogy.
adventurous
medium-paced
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Les Chroniques de Shannara tome 1 - L'épée de Shannara par Terry Brooks
Mon avis : 5/5
Depuis le temps que je voulais enfin savoir qui était Shea Shannara!
Je ne pense pas que ma review soit très longue parce que ce que je retiens de ma lecture pour ce tome est juste un sentiment. Le sentiment que je ne voulais absolument pas lâcher le livre et que je voulais continuer à le lire jusqu'à la fin en une fois, hors ce n'est pas possible.
On suit Shea et son équipe qui regroupe pleins de personnages en lien avec les 4 tomes de l Héritage de Shannara, à la recherche de l épée de Shannara qui peut éliminer le Roi-Sorcier car, quand Jerle s'en est servi, il ne l'a pas fait avec la bonne intention et donc l'ennemi n'a pas été vaincu pour de bon.
Une histoire avec pleins de rebondissements, de différentes quêtes, de rencontre avec des personnages que l'on connaissait déjà ou en lien avec ceux qu'on connaissait.
Je suis un peu triste qu'il ne me reste que deux tomes de cette saga...
Mon avis : 5/5
Depuis le temps que je voulais enfin savoir qui était Shea Shannara!
Je ne pense pas que ma review soit très longue parce que ce que je retiens de ma lecture pour ce tome est juste un sentiment. Le sentiment que je ne voulais absolument pas lâcher le livre et que je voulais continuer à le lire jusqu'à la fin en une fois, hors ce n'est pas possible.
On suit Shea et son équipe qui regroupe pleins de personnages en lien avec les 4 tomes de l Héritage de Shannara, à la recherche de l épée de Shannara qui peut éliminer le Roi-Sorcier car, quand Jerle s'en est servi, il ne l'a pas fait avec la bonne intention et donc l'ennemi n'a pas été vaincu pour de bon.
Une histoire avec pleins de rebondissements, de différentes quêtes, de rencontre avec des personnages que l'on connaissait déjà ou en lien avec ceux qu'on connaissait.
Je suis un peu triste qu'il ne me reste que deux tomes de cette saga...
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
I tried. I wanted to like it. I think the narrator of my audiobook just makes it way over dramatic and i cant get past that. Maybe Terry Brooks just isnt for me.
A Lord of the Rings wannabe. Written by an author who was too young to write this sort of thing, such as describing someone as "ramrod straight," in a world where there were no guns, so no ramrods...that sort of thing.
Terry Brooks says right in the foreword that Tolkien was an influence on him, but for the first3/4 of the book, just substitute "sword" for "ring" and it's the same damn book.
I wanted to give this book a try because when I was young, I read the Scions of Shannara and remember being quite fond of it. It's the 4th Shannara book. After reading The Sword of Shannara, I've come to the conclusion that either Terry Brooks got much, much better at writing, or more likely, I was one DUMB kid. I hadn't read LOTR at that point either.
I saw all of the Lord of the Rings rip-off criticisms before I started and decided to give it a go anyway as it's an accusation that gets thrown at a lot of fantasy books, simply because LOTR is the pinnacle. However, I was totally unprepared for just how shockingly plagiarised it was. I thought it might be the abstract sense of the world or the vague plot. Not so - characters, action scenes, plot points, politics, it's all been stolen. You would think that coming some time after LOTR, the author would at least improve on the original. Nope. This is as poor as it gets.
Here is a list of things I really didn't like:
- The backstory alluding to an interesting deviation from the LOTR world building is left behind after just one chapter - it was the only original and intriguing aspect of the whole book and it was left unexplored and therefore a clunky, and ultimately unnecessary, add-on.
- There are clumsy plot holes littered throughout but especially at the start of the book. At one point characters know about things they simply have no way of knowing. It's a minor story element but it makes you lose confidence in the writing.
- Characters randomly infer correct conclusions about key plot elements, which is just lazy. "Oh, X must be at Y". It's like everyone in the book is mildly psychic just so the author doesn't have to work at moving the plot along in a sensible way.
- There are NO female characters until about 2/3 of the way through, and even then she's not a real person. She's a love interest, so it's sufficient to describe her beauty and her hair over and over again but not really discuss her emotions or motivations or give her any real agency.
- The first time the villain is revealed, it's like a cross between Skeletor's lair and the intro to Trap-door. The whole thing is ridiculously cartoony. If they ever met, Sauron would make Brona seem like Gilbert Gottfried playing Gargamel in a Smurfs musical.
The thing I hated most was the terrible writing. Each chapter features dozens of consecutive pages of long, bloated, verbose paragraphs which achieve little. Dialogue is minimal even where it would be obvious to use, which means we get less of a sense of the interaction between characters and never actually grow to like any of them. They're all humourless and one-dimensional. The writing is clunky, drawn out, lacks tension and is badly paced.
Avoid it. It's the worst book I've read in a while. The fact it spawned so many sequels is baffling to me.
I saw all of the Lord of the Rings rip-off criticisms before I started and decided to give it a go anyway as it's an accusation that gets thrown at a lot of fantasy books, simply because LOTR is the pinnacle. However, I was totally unprepared for just how shockingly plagiarised it was. I thought it might be the abstract sense of the world or the vague plot. Not so - characters, action scenes, plot points, politics, it's all been stolen. You would think that coming some time after LOTR, the author would at least improve on the original. Nope. This is as poor as it gets.
Here is a list of things I really didn't like:
- The backstory alluding to an interesting deviation from the LOTR world building is left behind after just one chapter - it was the only original and intriguing aspect of the whole book and it was left unexplored and therefore a clunky, and ultimately unnecessary, add-on.
- There are clumsy plot holes littered throughout but especially at the start of the book. At one point characters know about things they simply have no way of knowing. It's a minor story element but it makes you lose confidence in the writing.
- Characters randomly infer correct conclusions about key plot elements, which is just lazy. "Oh, X must be at Y". It's like everyone in the book is mildly psychic just so the author doesn't have to work at moving the plot along in a sensible way.
- There are NO female characters until about 2/3 of the way through, and even then she's not a real person. She's a love interest, so it's sufficient to describe her beauty and her hair over and over again but not really discuss her emotions or motivations or give her any real agency.
- The first time the villain is revealed, it's like a cross between Skeletor's lair and the intro to Trap-door. The whole thing is ridiculously cartoony. If they ever met, Sauron would make Brona seem like Gilbert Gottfried playing Gargamel in a Smurfs musical.
The thing I hated most was the terrible writing. Each chapter features dozens of consecutive pages of long, bloated, verbose paragraphs which achieve little. Dialogue is minimal even where it would be obvious to use, which means we get less of a sense of the interaction between characters and never actually grow to like any of them. They're all humourless and one-dimensional. The writing is clunky, drawn out, lacks tension and is badly paced.
Avoid it. It's the worst book I've read in a while. The fact it spawned so many sequels is baffling to me.