Logan Tom has journeyed to desolate Seattle to protect a ragged band of street urchins and the being known as the gypsy morph, who is both mortal and magical, and destined to save mankind unless he is destroyed. Sam Fontana, Narrated by: in English, Hamilton College, 1966; J.D., Washington and Lee University, Build Your Kids' Library: Buy 1, Get 1 50% Off, Grow Your Child's Library with Top Young Reader Series, Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser, Antrax (Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Series #2), Bloodfire Quest (Dark Legacy of Shannara Series #2), Dark Wraith of Shannara (Shannara Series), The Gypsy Morph (Genesis of Shannara Series #3), Jarka Ruus (High Druid of Shannara Series #1), The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 2: Tangle. “I went deep into the mountains, searching,” he continued, lost again in his tale. Didn't enjoy American reader but got used to him.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The First King of Shannara?
Survivors in fortified compounds hold the line against wandering predators, rogue militias, and hideous mutations spawned by the toxic atmosphere.
And he immediately understood that if the peoples of the Four Lands were to escape eternal subjugation they would need to unite.
Not as long as I had expected. Mark Deakins, Narrated by: Meanwhile, Walker is alone, caught in a dark maze beneath the ruined city of Castledown, stalked by a hungry, unseen enemy. the story filled in a few blanks but it was much too predictable and I really don't like the narrator.
He equips Jerle Shannara, the Elven King, with the Sword. The fate of the town and, ultimately, of humanity depends on one exceptional 14-year-old girl, the only one who can see the otherworldly creatures that have begun to invade her home town.
I made myself as invisible as the air through which they flew. Its sequels earned Brooks legendary status. The darkness of this region was overwhelming. I saw the winged hunters as I went, emerging only at night, great birds of prey that patrolled and kept watch for living things. As the crew aboard the Jerle Shannara is attacked by evil forces, the Druid's protege, Bek Rowe, and his companions are pursued by the mysterious Ilse Witch. As an allegory of the eternal struggle between good and evil, the vital basis of fantasy, Brooks's mythical universe also suffers from a crucial dearth of those magical moments of heart-stopping revelation when, against all hope, against all reason, against all the forces of evil, salvation comes at last. Paperback (Mass Market Paperback - Reissue) $ 8.99. Never a sense of humor, and all the characters are pretty much the same. it was good but not as good as the others I have read.
Each sentence was overly flourished and exaggerated as though coming from a bad theater actor trying to pay the bills by reading books. There were other beings as well, creatures summoned out of the spirit world, dead things brought to life, evil given form.