A review by juneburkholder
The Druid of Shannara by Terry Brooks

4.0

I was able to get through about a third of the book before I put it down for school, meaning for me that the some events in that part are blurred and somewhat remembered. As such, I'll do what I can to review what I actually remember.

It was interesting how the individual books in this tetralogy feature their own quests but still maintain the same over-arching story, with little snippets in between of the perspectives of other sets of characters on their own quests. Pertaining to Walker Boh's side, I'd say it was pretty good, all things considered. The book felt slow and static at times, though with these books I usually blame my powerful ability to become distracted for the sluggish effect. I felt like I knew each of the characters in this book pretty well, something I felt was lacking a couple books ago in Wishsong. When I'm reading it's usually hard for me to maintain how each character looks physically, so it was very beneficial to me that Brooks would give me a specific sense for each character to distinguish by. The quest was fascinating, so I won't spoil those details here. The payoff in the last fifth of the book was great, the fates of each of the characters justified. I'm excited to begin the next chapter of this series, Elf Queen of Shannara, pretty soon, once I get through a few other books I've been putting off for some time.

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