Terry rarely disappoints but sometimes he hits a double home run. WARDS OF FAERIE is one of those books. Set 120 years after the events of the High Druid of Shannara trilogy, Terry introduces us to the Fourth Druid Order, led by Ard Rhys Khyber Elessedil. She has taken up the mantle once carried by Grianne Ohmsford a century earlier. But when a diary bearing cryptic information about the lost multiple-colored sets of Elfstones from Faerie is found in the Elven archives, the Ard Rhys must gather a group of powerful questors to search out the lost Stones at all costs -- before the prevailing science of the Federation swallows the Four Lands whole.

Some people find Terry formulaic. Sometimes he is. But this is not one of those stories. He is doing things with this new Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy that he's never done before -- and the Four Lands will NEVER be the same again! Great characters, a plot that is fast-paced, and a battle at Paranor one has to read to believe! Definitely a great read for fantasy fans!