Reviews

The Druid Of Shannara by Terry Brooks

pepsigirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

If it weren't for Pe Ell this would be 5 stars. Also Walker Boh comes into his own in this story. As awesome as Quickening is, how charming the side romance story, and how mature Morgan seemed in Scions - Walker is the main character now and he's extremely cool!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual content

Pe Ell is sick and twisted the whole way through, never changes or grows, and his inner monologue is always the same. You can read it once and then skip over the rest and never miss a thing. And don't worry about remembering him, he dies quick and painful at the end.

allrianne's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.25

agentnk_'s review against another edition

5.0

I love all the twists and turns and unexpected happenings. There is still some expected knowledge from the first Shannara trilogy, but not as much. Interesting characters and ideas.

celtic_oracle's review against another edition

3.0

Probably the Shannara book I liked best so far. It was nice to see the characters from the first book in this mini-series continue in the next - it definitely made the story more interesting as I had more invested in the characters.

undeadwookieebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

3.5

smurf2416's review

adventurous dark inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

draculaura21's review against another edition

adventurous

3.0

anthoneater's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

weechito's review against another edition

4.0

One of the stronger early Shannara books. Some stuff here feels familiar (quest to get the Thing from the Bad Guy to Stop the Other Bad Guy), but the characters are richer than I expected—especially Walker Boh and Pe Ell. The magic feels genuinely magical here too. And there are surprising moments of darkness throughout that make this a worthy entry.

mcfade28's review against another edition

2.0

I really struggled with this one, and it took me a month to get through.

This novel had serious pacing issues. The beginning and the end were both pretty good, but the middle dragged, and I found myself heavily skim reading just to get through it.

I do have issues with the Shanara books in general. They are all pretty samey, and the original novel especially feels like a rip off of LOTR. The previous novel was actually pretty enjoyable and built up a fun cast of characters, and I had been looking forward to continuing the story. Sadly this one chose to focus on only a few of those characters and the questing just got tedious for me.

I’ll take a short break the will press on to the Elf Queen. Despite my issues with this novel, I do want to see this series out.