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Wards of Faerie is the first book in the Dark Legacy of Shannara series.  There’s no question that Terry Brooks has a formula that he follows in all of these series.  Some great talisman must be found (in this case missing Elfstones).  A group of characters must be...

The Crossing is an apocalyptic novel which has humanity in a slow decline precipitated by a disease spreading among the population that starts killing off the elderly but is slowly progressing through the younger population, and a world war that is killing off the...

I was never able to get into The Unfinished Land, and as a result the novel fell flat for me.  There were a few reasons for this.  One is that the writing was archaic.  I understand that the novel is set in a period during the height of the Spanish Armada, but that’s...

Fray, the second novel in the Unraveled Kingdom Series, fell short of the first novel in the series and my expectations.  This novel continues where the other one left off.  Now Sophie Balstrade no longer owns her charm/clothing shop and is set to be married to...

I was a bit lukewarm about this novel when I first started reading it, and it took me a while to get into the story, but the more I read, the more I enjoyed this fantasy novel.  My hesitation is probably that I like my fantasy novels that are a little more epic in...