The companions believe they have slain the evil Dragon Highlord Verminaard. Old enemies are here too, as the companions encounter new adventures and new dangers in the very beginning months of the War of the Lance.This book starts with the celebration of a wedding. Old friends, such as Riverwind and Goldmoon and Laurana travel with them. The beloved heroes return: Tanis, Raistlin and Caramon, Sturm Brightblade, Tasslehoff, and Flint Fireforge. The Companions are back in the first volume that features an untold story from the War of the Lance.
Get other Fantasy Fiction AudioBooks here You didn’t love this book.Dragons of the Dwarven Depths by Margaret Weis What about Scott Brick’s performance did you like? Then the author goes back to stealing from the fellowship of the ring when at one point oak tree tentacles come out of a swamp and captures one of them and the others have to rescue him. One of them climbs up the trees at one point to get their bearings. The group has to go through a dark and mysterious forest. (which is a mixture of Tolkiens black riders and the first encounter with the trolls combined) Then they get to another village where they have a talk with another guy that decides to join their company. On the road theyre followed by some black creatures but they are miraculously saved by the coming of the dawn and the creatures disappear. He tells shay to meet him and that he cant go with him. A strange, mysterious person comes to a village and tells shay,one of the main characters,that hes in danger and needs to leave. I wont read (or listen) to anymore from this author that blatantly steals Tolkiens work damn near word for word. I only read 6 chapters before i couldnt take anymore. What would have made The Sword of Shannara better? It was a distraction throughout the entire book. (Is Brooks British?) His accents came and went constantly. His voice has a nice tone to it, but for some reason he tried to do English/Irish/Scottish accents on the characters. Scott Brick, the narrator, is so much better at non-fiction than fiction. How could the performance have been better? The entire book is not this way, but much of it is. After the stranger releases him, the man says, I thought you were a thief, to witch the highwayman replies, "you should learn to tell your friends from your enemies." That statement is utterly meaningless in this context, but it is the kind of thing a young man might write because he thinks it sounds good. He is accosted by a stranger in the road.
Another quick example, no spoilers: The first scene opens with a man walking back to his village. I'm not even a Tolkien fan, and I could not miss it. As I said above, the characters in this book literally map straight across to Tolkien's characters: Flick Ohmsford = Samwise Gamgee, Shea Ohmsford = Frodo Baggins, Allanon = Gandalf, Menion Leah = Boromir, Ballinor = Aragorn, King of the Silver River = Tom Bombadil, Gnomes = Orcs, Hendel = Gimli, The Warlock Lord = Sauron, Skull Bearers = Ring Wraiths, Orl Fane = Gollum. I will only say that this reads like a 15 year old boy's dungeon and dragon's adventure based upon the Lord of the Rings series. Therefore, I will make no mention of magic systems, or unique races, or world building. I try not to hold a fantasy book written in the 1970's-when the genre was in its infancy-to the same standards of today. What was most disappointing about Terry Brooks’s story? Enough so that, despite laughing at how ridiculous the writing was through the entire first 3/4 of the book, I find myself actually thinking about buying the next book. What did you like best about The Sword of Shannara? What did you like least?ĭespite the obvious and unmistakable Tolkien rip-off (The characters and events in this story can literally be mapped straight across to the Lord of the Rings), Brooks does interject a few interesting ideas of his own.
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