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A review by katyanaish
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
2.0
Getting through this book was tough. I wanted to read it, because it's considered one of the classic staples of the genre (or so I've heard), but... it's dry. Really really dry.
Firstly, it is so obviously a retelling of Lord of the Rings that it was shocking. And secondly, like LotR (which I love), it is filled with miles of descriptions on every detail of every setting (which I skim, mostly, on re-reads).
It was so slow that I couldn't keep my attention on it for more than 20 min or so at a time. And that's so unusual for me - I plow through books at hyperspeed, generally. It felt like I had ADD or something.
So I was disappointed. Maybe it's just that this book was so a product of its time that it doesn't read well to modern audiences, which is fair. There are tons of books that were beloved in my youth that, as an adult I tried to re-read and regretted it horribly, because it destroyed the book for me (I'm looking at you, Dragonriders of Pern). But whatever the reason, I definitely won't be reading onward. I barely finished this one.
Firstly, it is so obviously a retelling of Lord of the Rings that it was shocking. And secondly, like LotR (which I love), it is filled with miles of descriptions on every detail of every setting (which I skim, mostly, on re-reads).
It was so slow that I couldn't keep my attention on it for more than 20 min or so at a time. And that's so unusual for me - I plow through books at hyperspeed, generally. It felt like I had ADD or something.
So I was disappointed. Maybe it's just that this book was so a product of its time that it doesn't read well to modern audiences, which is fair. There are tons of books that were beloved in my youth that, as an adult I tried to re-read and regretted it horribly, because it destroyed the book for me (I'm looking at you, Dragonriders of Pern). But whatever the reason, I definitely won't be reading onward. I barely finished this one.