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Armageddon's Children (Genesis of Shannara #1)

by Terry Brooks (Goodreads Author)

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Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twenty-three international bestsellers have ranged from the beloved Shannara series to stories that tread a much darker path. Armageddon’s Children is a new creation–the perfect opportunity for readers unfamiliar with Brooks’s previous work to experience an author at the height of hi...more Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twenty-three international bestsellers have ranged from the beloved Shannara series to stories that tread a much darker path. Armageddon’s Children is a new creation–the perfect opportunity for readers unfamiliar with Brooks’s previous work to experience an author at the height of his considerable storytelling powers. It is a gripping chronicle of a once-familiar world now spun shockingly out of control, in which an extraordinary few struggle to salvage hope in the face of terrifying chaos.

Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family’s slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization’s downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.

Across the country, Angel Perez, herself a survivor of the malevolent, death-dealing forces combing the land, has also been chosen for an uncanny mission in the name of her ruined world’s salvation. From the devastated streets of Los Angeles, she will journey to find a place–and a people–shrouded in mystery, celebrated in legend, and vital to the cause of humankind . . . even as a relentless foe follows close behind, bent on her extermination. While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting odds–and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey.

In time, all their paths will cross. Their common purpose will draw them together. Their courage and convictions will be tested and their fates will be decided, as their singular crusade begins: to take back, or lose forever, the only world they have.

In Armageddon’s Children, Brooks brings his gifts as a mythmaker to the timeless theme of the unending, essential conflict between darkness and light–and carries his unique imaginative vision to a stunning new level. Prepare for a breathtaking tour de force. To those who are new to Terry Brooks, welcome. And to those who have read him for many years: prepare for a dramatic surprise.(less)

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Aug 14, 2007 Eric rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: teens

I read the Shannara books as a young teen and loved them. It was such a letdown when I tried to read them years later and they didn't hold up. Pretty thin, really. But I got suckered in to reading multiple new ones set in that world afterwards. Since I knew the world, they were comfortable and familiar. I kept wanting to recapture the original feeling, but they just weren't very good.

This one is the same thing. The concept isn't entirely bad but the mediocre writing continues. There are too man...more

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May 04, 2010 chucklesthescot rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fantasy fans who like elves in their story

Shelves: fiction, fantasy-scifi

A group of children are living on the streets of a deserted city,inhabited by the sick,the supernatural and the unwanted while people live in fortified sport stadiums to protect against the forces of evil.When a rival gang are murdered by some new monster the children decide they have to escape.Meanwhile,a protector is on his way to the city to find one special child with the power to defeat the evil.One of the few others to stand against the evil forces is trying to outrun a demon sent to kill...more

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Dec 03, 2008 Chris rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: loved-it, i-own

I've loved Brooks' writing for many years now and this new series continues his great tradition of excellent stories with great thoughts and values.

With this novel, Terry begins to bridge the gap between two of his main story threads...that of the world of Shannara and that of the world in the "Word and Void" series.

The characters are approachable and each filled with their own strengths and flaws. As readers, we are taken on a voyage of self discovery along with the characters as they interact...more

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Apr 11, 2012 Tandra rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: best-fantasy-series

I've never seen an author go quite as in-depth with a world as Terry Brooks has with Shannara, and it's only been for good. Since Sword of Shannara was published forty years ago, Brooks's world has only gotten deeper and richer, and we can see how it began with Armageddon's Children.

Armageddon's Children picks up about 100 years from our here-and-now, after the world has been virtually destroyed and the only survivors are scattered, hunted, and often mutated. It, like most of Brooks's work, has...more

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May 16, 2011 Janetlorraine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love Terry Brooks' novels, especially his novels about Knights of the Word. I felt like I was waiting forever to see this trilogy begin! I was very interested in what would become of the children and the others in the "Word and Void" series and was disappointed to find a lot of the middle was left unsaid. I hope there will be another book that more fully bridges the gap between this new trilogy and that one. Perhaps the middle would be too desolate to tell, except by including bits of the in-b...more

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Nov 30, 2010 Mark rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I feel like my rating is not really indicative of a rating most readers would give this book. Armageddon's Children, being the first in a standalone trilogy (and ending on a cliffhanger, no less) while bridging the gap between the Word and the Void series and the Shannara series, is a fun read for a Brooks fan. However, when I last read the Shannara series was about 15 years ago, and Word and the Void about 7... so it makes it interesting to try and see how all the pieces will fit together in my...more

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Nov 05, 2010 Patrick D'Orazio rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Bridging the gap between two well known series of books is a dicey proposition. Isaac Asimov attempted it at the end of his career when he took his Foundation series and his Robot series of books, both highly regarded, and join them together. It was not necessarily a match made in heaven and while it was a interesting idea it wasn't needed or necessary. It seemed like a forced effort and I really felt there was little point to doing it.

Even just trying to make a prequel to a well regarded story...more Bridging the gap between two well known series of books is a dicey proposition. Isaac Asimov attempted it at the end of his career when he took his Foundation series and his Robot series of books, both highly regarded, and join them together. It was not necessarily a match made in heaven and while it was a interesting idea it wasn't needed or necessary. It seemed like a forced effort and I really felt there was little point to doing it.

Even just trying to make a prequel to a well regarded story can be tough. You are forced to stay within the parameters of what you have already created and your fan base is familiar with (think of the Star Wars prequels). They know the final outcome and expect the details to work in perfect sync with that. The story can suffer for the details that have to match with everything in a future already written about.

So trying to bridge that gap can be tricky. I will say that Terry Brooks probably was planning this all when he first came up with the idea of the Word and the Void series. Later Shannara works mention the Word and the Void and they come into play quite a bit as concepts so it was fairly obvious to me that the two seperate series would be joined sooner or later.

This particular book has four seperate story lines that will all be joined up as the trilogy goes on. One is of a Knight of the Word, Logan, who needs to find the Gypsy Morph which was born in the Word and Void series 80 years previous. Another is of Angel, who is another Knight that must find the elves, who have hidden away from humanity since they became the dominant species on the planet. The third is of the elves themselves. We are introduced to the Ellcrys and the idea of the Elfstones, very well known concepts from the Shannara series. The Ellcrys needs to be moved from its current place in the hidden kingdom of the Elves in the forests of Oregon before it is destroyed by the encroaching doom of the world that surrounds it. The final storyline is that of the title. We are introduced to Armageddon's Children in the form of the Ghosts, who are a group of teenagers lead by Hawk as they try to survive on the streets of Seattle in a post apocalyptic world.

The backdrop of all of this is a world that is rapidly becoming too toxic and too evil for humanity to exist in anymore. About eighty years after things started to fall apart there are mutants and once men that roam the world while much of what remains of humanity hide behind the walls of compounds which are slowly being destroyed and ransacked by demons of the void and their slaves.

It will be interesting how Brooks bridges it all together with the entire trilogy. Things such as dwarves and trolls will have to show up amongst other things to make this into the world of Shannara. I just hope that book two and three will be able to do a good job of bringing it all together. This particular book simply introduces the idea of a merger for the most part. We are given a great deal of back story on our characters and the stage is set but not much else. A great deal of action and story development is yet to come.

Of course we will have to wait a year for part two and another year for part three. That always makes it tough-just remembering all the details can be a real challenge. Such is life though. This book is well written but we are left dangling, as to be expected. So I give it four stars because it is a solid effort, much as is the case with every other Brook's book. In reality a trilogy deserves to be reviewed as a whole though, so until it is complete it is unfair to give any rating at all. Lets just say that this is a promising start.(less)

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Jun 29, 2010 Mason Hall rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This review was originally done as the whole Genesis of Shannara series but I broke it up here.

*Does contain some spoilers*

The Genesis of Shannara series is the bridge series between The Word and the Void and The Sword of Shannara series, and I will review them all together, since that is basically how I read them.
Armageddon's Children begins roughly eighty years after the events of Angel Fire East The story focuses on three main characters through the majority of the book, Hawk, Logan Tom and A...more

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Feb 27, 2010 Mr. Pirkl rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, 2010

This book takes place in the world created in the books "A Knight of the Word" and "Running with the Demon" and "Angel Fire East" (I haven't read this one yet). I did not know that when I picked it up from the library yesterday during the 'snow' day. I just knew that it was by Terry Brooks, who I am a fan of, and it said that it was a new series. I didn't know it had the subtitle of "Genesis of Shannara" until I added it here. I loved the Shannara series and, now that I'm aware, can see how this...more

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Aug 02, 2009 Andrea Yargeau rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Having never read Terry Brooks before, I was not sure what to expect from this book. It begins in a post apocolyptic world, where humans are shutting themselves into compounds to save themselves from a world run amok by demons, mutants, and something called once-men, who seek only to destroy and follow orders from the demons not caring if they live or die. The book follows three separate people with the promise that they will all be brought together. (However, they are not, you got to go to the...more

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Jun 23, 2010 Jessie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: summer-2010

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Nov 20, 2009 Monk rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Another reminder that if a book is on the discount pile at the bookstore, even if it is by an author you love, it is still a book on the discount pile.
I've have some issues with this book. Not as many issues as I have with my mother, but still....
First problem: This book represents a link between heaven and hell. Although the Shannara series played a big role in my introduction to fantasy, and I still love the early books, the series has gotten beyond stale. I won't begrudge a guy for milking a...more

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Apr 26, 2010 Luna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Brooks is and always will be one of my favorite story tellers. He started off his career with a book heavily influenced by other Epic fantasies, with very little orginality to the plot, only his characters managed to set him apart. Since the debut of Swords, Brooks has come into his own as a writer. Aside from the very basic good v. evil plot found in almost all fantasy, Brooks has managed to create an intriguing world that attempts to blend magic with science in a rather inventive way. His Gene...more Brooks is and always will be one of my favorite story tellers. He started off his career with a book heavily influenced by other Epic fantasies, with very little orginality to the plot, only his characters managed to set him apart. Since the debut of Swords, Brooks has come into his own as a writer. Aside from the very basic good v. evil plot found in almost all fantasy, Brooks has managed to create an intriguing world that attempts to blend magic with science in a rather inventive way. His Genesis series is no exception. I will start off by saying that anyone considering reading this book might want to give his Word/Void series a try first, as it influences the Genesis triology. However, I read Armageddon's Children before I read the Word/Void series, and I faired just fine. Brooks has a very straightforward writing style. True, he may make wonderfully convoluted plots and wonderfully confusing characters(because really, aren't all humans confusing characters? We constantly contradict ourselves), but when it comes to plot every is pretty cut and dry. Save the world from a terrible evil, rise above personal obstacles, find yourself fighting your geatest fears and being humbled by strength you didn't know your enemies possesed. Brooks doesn't get too philosophical, but he doesn't get too literal either. He finds a nice balance and manages to realistically present many different view points and character types.
So yes, this book absolutely deserves the five stars I gave it, as do the other two books in the series. The plot is appealing. Post apocalyptic fantasies aren't a new thing, but Brooks manages to write his trilogy in an inventive way, binding the Word/Void and Genesis series with a world he's worked more than thirty years to shape. As I wrote above, Brooks manages to construct very human characters. Some readers don't like this. It's easier to find yourself liking the perfect image of the person you may want to be opposed to the flawed character that more accurately represents your own faults. If you don't like flawed characters, read someone else. Brooks wont hand you cookie-cutter Mary sues. The antagonists are not always perfectly clear, and there is always more than one force working against the protagonists. The evil isn't always completely black and white either, though don't expect Brooks to hand you too many villains with extensive backgrounds that explain their folly. The few times he does this, it's done very well. Grianne Ohmsford from his Voyage of Jerle Shannara and High Druid of Shannara series is a prime example. I won't delve too much into the plot because I believe that some things should be a surprise. Sometimes I feel too much is given away, or the wrong things are written about. I will say that to those of you who feel the need to whine about cliffhangers, take a chil pill, grow some patience, and stop throwing tantrums. I believe our society is too accustomed to instant gratification. And reading is generally not an instant thing. It takes patience, thought,concentration, and sometimes a great deal of effort. It's a wonderful past time to be sure. I practically live and breathe books. And cliffhangers, in my opinion, are apart of life. Not everything is always resolved right in the moment, and this is the first book of trilogy---of course there's going to be things left unfinished! If it comforts you perspective readers to know, the third book ends very nicely. The only time brooks ever leaves loose ends is when he intends to weave them together again. This series is a wonderful example as Brooks has written a duology to follow it and explain the little that was left unexplained and continue on his epic story. So go, buy this book. You've been warned about the cilffhangers, the series that came before, and the....on second thought, I think i'll end this review on a cliffhanger. >:)(less)

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Feb 14, 2013 Aaron Mills rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Normally, fantasy/science fiction books are not what I like to read, however lately I’ve been getting a bit bored with the regular authors that I read. So, I started looking around for a different type of author and book to spark my interest. I remembered my mom and a few friends, who constantly were reading Terry Brooks, so I thought to myself I’ll give him a shot and read his Shannara series.

After logging on his website and looking at recommended reading orders and trying to figure out which t...more

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May 16, 2012 Carole rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you’ve never read a Terry Brooks novel, then I don’t advise you start here. That’s not to say I don’t recommend reading it because I do, you just have to read some other books first. Armageddon’s Children is set some time after The Word & The Void Trilogy and sometime before The Sword of Shannara.

The Word & The Void Trilogy was set in, for want of a better term, the real world, in present day. The Shannara series was set in a traditional fantasy land. You know the type, elves, dwarves...more

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Jun 19, 2010 Christine rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

(Audio Book) The book was a slow start I felt. I liked listening to the parts about the children running around Seattle since I am from Seattle. But I felt the author didn't do a very good job describing the city. I knew area's that he was talking about only because I live here but I felt that people that might not live here would not really get a good picture of the city.

As for the book it just seemed to take awhile for plots to build and I felt like the story was over just as it started. The...more

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May 09, 2012 Allison rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A pretty grim book to say the least. I don't know why I read these books! It took me a little while to really get into the story. I had read the Sword of Shannara books a long time ago, tentatively read the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara and thought I would take a step back to where it all began. And grim it is! I'm glad I read this book. I did get annoyed with how it all ended though! There was just NO closure on any of the story lines, I felt like it just cut off in a bid for me to then go and b...more

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Feb 02, 2012 Autumnjs rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It’s not you, it’s me- I decided to read this book after a cursory search on Whichbook. I like books about the apocalypse, and this seemed like it could be interesting. Mutants! Gangs of kids just trying to survive this crazy post-apocalyptic world! What’s not to like? Well, the story lost me with the introduction of the Elves. To be fair, I rarely seek out or read books from the fantasy genre, and this is the first time I’ve read a work by Terry Brooks, so I tried to be open. I really enjoyed t...more

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Oct 21, 2009 Angela rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Armageddon's Children is full of action from the very first sentence. Every main character is in danger and has a battle to fight just to survive much less accomplish the task they are destined to carry out. The demons and once-men control much of the world and take joy in slaughtering and enslaving humans. Much of the human population has taken refuge in compounds, although a few have taken their chances on the streets. Some have been permanently altered from exposure to unnatural toxins and ra...more

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Jul 22, 2012 Hans Ng rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After hearing so much about Terry Brooks, I decided to settle on reading Armageddon's Children after finding it in the library. While the storyline was quite intriguing and unique I would say (Post apocalyptic fantasy!), I was a bit let down by the style of writing.

I found the writing to be overly simplistic as some of the other reviewers have already commented. It goes into every single detail which at times is really unnecessary. Another thing that annoyed me was the dialog. The children's sid...more

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Jun 11, 2012 Shannon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Interesting storyline: Humans have polluted the earth to the point where we have become various mutants (once-men, spiders, demmons). Stadiums have been fortified into modern castle-type structures, for both living inside and protection. But bands of abandoned children live outside the walls, in the ruined streets of cities. Fortunately, human kind has help from the Elves, fairies and Knights of the Word to help them survive. But the end of humanity is near. There is just this one little bit of...more

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Sep 30, 2012 Richard rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Feb 12, 2012 Apps *๒l๏๏๔ ๏ภ เςє* rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: human-superhumans-books, not-sure-what-to-think

This wasn't really a hooker for me. It seemed like he had added a few - no scratch that, added MANY things just for the sake of it. It seemed like he set out with big plans but after a while he just ran out of his ideas! The story felt extremely disconnected and I seriously didn't give a damn to what happened to the characters. In the flashback of Logan and Angel it seemed like he had made two copies of it and then just changed the names! Both had almost the exact same past and their personaliti...more

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Dec 29, 2012 Jason Hamilton rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Armageddon's Children is the first of a trilogy entitled, The Genesis of Shannara, intended to bridge the gap between the Word and the Void trilogy and the Shannara series. All I can say is, it does a good job. I quite enjoyed reading about our own world turning into a fantasy realm.

Logan Tom is a Knight of the Word, one of the last. While traveling the plains of the mid-United States he receives a mission from the Native American, O'olish Amaneh, to find the Gypsy Morph, born eighty years previ...more

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Sep 26, 2011 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

This is the first Genesis of Shannara series. This book continues the storyline from the Word and Void series but hints at the beginning of the Shannara series. In this story, the worst has happened and the balance has tipped towards evil. Humankind is slowly being exterminated by demons and once-men. The book contains multiple storylines. One story revolves around the Ghosts, a small group of teens who have formed a family to protect themselves. A second and third storyline revolve around two r...more

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Jul 04, 2011 Eyjólfur Örn Jónsson rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

Quite literally one of the best books (and series) I´ve read in a really long time. Brooks introduces us to a post Shannarra Earth and bridges the gap between his previous works and the modern day world.

A group of children survivors of armageddon living outside the compounds of other survivors must gather their strength and travel out of the world they know to a fantasy world of elves and magic. Aided by tough as nails guardians whilst being chased by hoardes of pure evil the children come into...more

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Dec 27, 2012 Dan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you are a fan of Post Apocalytic / Apocalyptic Fiction I would definite recommend picking up a copy of Armageddon's Children. If you are a fan of Brooks' Word & Void series, this is a direct progression of that story.

Brooks does a fantastic job of rendering the setting. There is a sense of desperation and imminent danger that pervades the book as one would expect to find in a world that is in constant conflict and fighting a loosing battle for survival. Characters are genuine and act tru...more

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Mar 27, 2009 Tom rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

We all have those books that we read as teens that will always stay near/dear to our hearts. For me, the Terry Brooks "Shannara" novels are in that category. I read the first of these novels The Sword of Shannara when I was 13 or 14 and it struck a lifelong love of Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

So, it's hard for me to read this book without looking through that lens, but I found it incredibly enjoyable. The only reason I don't give it five stars is a structural, story arc complaint. I wish books in a trilogy (...more We all have those books that we read as teens that will always stay near/dear to our hearts. For me, the Terry Brooks "Shannara" novels are in that category. I read the first of these novels The Sword of Shannara when I was 13 or 14 and it struck a lifelong love of Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

So, it's hard for me to read this book without looking through that lens, but I found it incredibly enjoyable. The only reason I don't give it five stars is a structural, story arc complaint. I wish books in a trilogy (such as this one) could each stand as complete stories on their own, rather than being one complete narrative, split into three parts.

The "cliffhanger" approach can be fun, but not when when you don't have book 2 & 3 on hand and have to find/order them and then wait for two or three weeks to continue the story!

The story here is, as the subtitle indicates, the "Genesis of Shannara." It is basically the story of the connection of what, presumably, is our world and the fantasy world of Shannara. This trilogy is the link between Brooks' "Word and Void" series Running with the Demon, where magic is pretty much non-existent and/or not believed to be true; and the Shannara series, where magic is accepted as a day to day occurrence.

That all might sound complex/far-fetched, but the linking is artfully and cleverly done (so far).

In this story, we find the world post-nuclear armageddon, a concept that seems to be a popular one these days (ex: The Road - soon to be a movie, the "Fallout 3" computer game, etc.). Brooks does a great job of theorizing & describing the different ways in which people might survive in this world. The focus of the story is on three or four pivotal characters. I like this approach because it increases the tension. You're never quite sure which one of these characters may not make it to the end of the story alive.

I'm looking forward to getting & reading the next two books in the series, I just wish I didn't have to do so quite so impatiently!

Darn cliffhangers!

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Jul 28, 2011 Eileen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

So far, pretty good. I like the characters and their missions so far. But I just got to the elf part. Not making much sense. We'll see how it goes.

Well, I've finished it now. It was OK, but I agree with other reviews about the elf section. What is that? I didn't see how it added to the story line at all. I loved the part near the end when people get to find out their real role and have their purposes revealed to them. The cliff hanger was a really doozy, maybe a bit much, cause it really makes y...more

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Mar 09, 2010 Seaellem rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

On my rounds of end of the world books, had to give this one a shot. "The Sword of Shannara" was one of the fantasy books that I picked up after Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia. Stuck with me for long time, reading and re-reading the Sword. So, Brooks has a special place in the library of my mind.

I enjoyed the characters of this book, very well developed and flawed (something that is always endearing to me). Action was pretty constant.

The cause of Armageddon on Brooks' earth was...more

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