Snowfire's review
The Talismans of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, Book 4)
by Terry Brooks
Snowfire's review
The Talismans of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, Book 4) by Terry Brooks
Snowfire's review
rating:
I will admit I liked this book when I first read it, but I was young and foolish at the time. This book does NOT hold up on re-reading.
The promising parts aren't major players, alas. Wren becomes an idiot and barely has any screen time. Walker is still basically cool (at least in the first half of the book), but then gets infected with terminal stupidity in the ending ("I'm in such a damn hurry to rest I can't stop at the victory feast?"), not to mention abandoning the "Rargh I hate druids and their ways" plotline which actually made him interesting. That leaves... the brothers of fail, Par and Coll, and also Rimmer Dall, who turns out to be way less cool villain than he was built up to be. Par proves himself an utter idiot with his responses to Rimmer's fairly obvious poor insinuations, and Coll is still ensnared by Rimmer's really obvious trap from earlier, and doesn't really redeem himself later. Rimmer basically doesn't care about losing the war and t...more
The promising parts aren't major players, alas. Wren becomes an idiot and barely has any screen time. Walker is still basically cool (at least in the first half of the book), but then gets infected with terminal stupidity in the ending ("I'm in such a damn hurry to rest I can't stop at the victory feast?"), not to mention abandoning the "Rargh I hate druids and their ways" plotline which actually made him interesting. That leaves... the brothers of fail, Par and Coll, and also Rimmer Dall, who turns out to be way less cool villain than he was built up to be. Par proves himself an utter idiot with his responses to Rimmer's fairly obvious poor insinuations, and Coll is still ensnared by Rimmer's really obvious trap from earlier, and doesn't really redeem himself later. Rimmer basically doesn't care about losing the war and t...more
