The Elves of Cintra
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With his groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara and its acclaimed sequels, Terry Brooks brought a new audience to epic fantasy. Then he gave the genre a darkly compelling contemporary twist in his trilogy of the Word and the Void. Last year, in Armageddon’s Children, Brooks undertook the stunning chronicle that united two unique worlds. Now that tale of clashing forces of darkness and light, of Shannara’s beginnings and the human race’s possible end, marches forwards into an unforgettable second volume full of mystery, magic, and momentous events.
Across the ruined landscape that is America–hopelessly poisoned, plague-ridden, burned, and besieged by demon armies bent on exterminating all mortal life–two pilgrims have been summoned to serve the embattled cause of excellent. Logan Tom has journeyed to forbidding Seattle to protect a shabby 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 ruined. Likewise, Angel Perez has her own quest, one that will take her from the wreckage of Los Angeles to a distant, secret place unconcerned by the horrors of the nationwide blight–a place where the race of Elves has dwelled since before man existed. But close behind these lone Knights of the Word swarm the ravening forces of the Void.
As the menacing thunder of war drums heralds the arrival of the demons and their brutal minions in Seattle, the young survivors who call themselves the Ghosts are forced to courageous the treacherous world of gangs, mutants, and worse to escape the invasion. And Logan Tom must infiltrate a refugee compound to rescue Hawk, the leader of the street urchins, who has yet to learn the truth about who and what he is. Meanwhile, Angel Perez has joined an equally urgent mission: to find the Ellcrys, a fabled talisman crucial to protecting the Elven realm against an influx of unspeakable evil from the dread dimension known as the Forbidding. But Angel and her Elf allies must beware–for a demon spy, with a monstrous creature at its mandate, walks among them.
As the legions of darkness draw the noose tighter, and the time of confrontation draws near, persons chosen to defend the soul of the world must draw their battle lines and prepare to fight with, and for, their lives. If they fail, humanity falls.
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First of all I need to say that I was once a huge fan of Terry Brooks in fact I have read every book he has every published beginning with the Sword of Shannara( a blatant plagerism of Lord of the Rings) And I really loved his books. But that was back in seventh grade now I realize they are perfect crap.
His novels have stupid simplistic plots and this one is no exception. But I reflect the main thing is Terry’s perfect lack of skill as a writer. His characters are dull and there really is no character development also this tale is only a few hundred pages long and lacks any depth whatsoever. This is the last Terry Brooks book I will ever read I really dont care what happens with the rest of the tale. The whole thought to tie the Word and Void to the Shannara books was an idiotic thought only terry brooks could have thought of.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Warning: If you are a Brooks sycophant this review is going to cause your Elf Stones to glow blue, or your Wishsong to rise in your throat.
This thing tastes like a dish with expired ingredients.
What happened to the journey? This book (series) moves at breakneck speed, in fits and starts, to a predictable end.
What happened to dialogue? Is character development through interaction and dialogue “ancient school”?
Where is the cadence, the rhythm, the muse? Too many “scene changes”, which brings to question the editing?
How many times can a character pull knees to chest (the universal posture of an impending monologue) and tell us what the leader couldn’t show us.
Where is the art? Van Gogh’s “Sower with Setting Sun” is not the figure in meadow beneath a sun. It is the artist moving us intellectually and emotionally through the execution, choice, and application of the pigment; a unique vision masterfully expressed – the art.
Perhaps, if a name could effectively wield the seeking stones we could find answers to these questions before the finale.
I reflect I know what has happened here. Terry has transitioned from a literary artist to a business man, and in business there is permanently an end game. The end game here is a movie deal. And that clarifies it form me. This is not a book; it is a screen play on steroids. This series is devoid of all the artistic nuisances of literature, and streamlined for the screen.
Compare this book to “Running with the Demon”; the amount and quality of the dialogue, the extended development and interaction of the characters, a fulcrum (Nest Freemark), and the effective blending of reality with the “otherness”. It works there. But not here.
This whole Elf and Faerie thing is juxtaposed out of context, compare the original Shannara (1977). To the point, an impressionist (e.g. Monet) painting flowers in the context of an emerging Manufacturing Age has a different meaning/impact on the psyche than an artist executing that same painting today, at the dawn of the Cyber Age. The time is past, the world moves on. It is nearly ironic that this is a prequel to a piece of literature that worked 30 years ago.
I am thinking the whole elf and faerie thing has burned through; mating them with these new characters of the new (or is it ancient) apocalypse in a new (or is it ancient) socio-politically charged landscape is by turns aggressive and absurd.
Importantly, Terry in these books fails to show the additional side of the tale (mutants / demons) and treats them merely as archetypes. The energy in contemporary thought explores the lack of boundaries between excellent and evil; that it is not so black and white.
Perhaps if he would have left out the whole Shannara thing, and worked on the new characters, while at the same time exploring with objectivity and humanity the Void and its characters, he would have had a more compelling and significant tale.
Want some really excellent heady reading, pick up Terry Pratchett.
He does this whole fantasy genre as satire in his Discworld series. Brilliant man – huge on anthropomorphic personifications like DEATH (no kidding, DEATH TALKS IN CAPITAL LETTERS LIKE THIS). Pratchett delivers gems like:
Give a man fire and you keep him warm for a day, Light a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
You might as well save your money. Not only is the book not one of Terry’s best, it suffers from his middle syndrome let-down and it’s also second-rate in quality to the additional hardcover books unrestricted in this series.
Take a look at the first book, then this.
It’s not going to be a stable addition to anyone’s collection, that’s for sure.
Why would anyone buy the hardcover, when all motivation for doing it is gone? When you buy it, you might like to see it last longer than the average magazine or newspaper. Like many additional book publishers (starting in 2005) this book is printed on cheap paper for the same amount of money a nicer book would sell for. In about five years or so, the additional books in this series will be virtually unchanged, but this and the next book will be turning yellow and the pages will fall out. I’ve seen this already at my local library with books that are printed this way and are only 2 years ancient.
What gets to me is that the industry is trying to pull a quick one on the consumer. If they could lower their prices a small, to reflect their use of disposable materials, that would be more honest on their part.
But I guess that’s what’s at issue here. Buy with caution, because if you intend for these books to stay in your library a while, you may be disappointed.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I like Terry Brooks. I’ve loved him since I cracked open The Sword of Shannara. But lately the man has fallen behind in his ways to amaze me. This book the second book after Armageddon’s Children is a luke-warm follow up to its predecessor. At times it just plays like a bridge between the first book and the climax.
Logan Tom has establish the gypsy morph of Nest Freemark’s time but now the boy Hawk has disappeared. Step in the King of the Silver River, who has been in nearly every Shannara novel and frankly I’m tired of the man. No offense Terry. Anyway, Hawk learns of his mission and then is sent back. But we don’t pick up that tale thread until 200 pages into the book. The rest of the plot is the Ghosts traveling south to meet up with Hawk. Many pitfalls take place along the way (my personal favorite is the Senator) but it has a mostly pleased outcome.
Angel Perez has distress of her own. She must convince the elves that they are in danger, elves that do not trust humans. Kirisen Belloruus with blue elfstones in hand goes with Angel and his sister to find the mysterious Loden elfstone. But a demons are tracking them. Who the demon is, is a mystery worth savoring. Flaws in this plotline are that we have already explored the blue elfstones’ and the Loden’s capibilities. I wanted to have seen some different ones.
In closing: there is a glimpse of the future with the demon that Findo Gask summons and a question of what will Hawk really do? All and all it is a excellent and quick-paced read. And I still like Terry Brooks.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Five decades into the future planet is a terrible place to live as pollution is everywhere with plague being the norm. Most humans live inside fortifications never venturing outside the walls if they want to live as human predators are everywhere, but along with these “once-men” are powerfully magical evil Void demons.
A few excellent souls remain with the might to keep dwindling humanity safe, but these Knights of the Word are realistic as they know they are slowly losing the fight. Still they adhere to their pledge so that the remaining twosome Logan Tom and Angel Perez risk death or worse protect children. But, they are losing the battle of Seattle where they and a child with magic Hawk try to keep the Ghosts children of the street safe from the demons and their once-men minion. Hawk vanishes; ending up in the mythical Garden of Life. But, there is no time to worry about the young practitioner as Logan and Angel split up in hopes of saving at least one group. Logan helped by Cat the lizard girl lead one horde of kids out of the city; Angel takes another group into hiding in the nearby woods where they meet Kirisina Cintra elf hiding there also. Hopes are slim, but Kirisin offers an thought, find the blue Elfstones that will lead him to the powerful Loden Stone.
The second Word and Void fantasy thriller (see ARMAGEDDON’S CHILDREN) is a terrific bleak epic tale of an planet ruined by human extremes especially the inability to see beyond the immediate bottom line of the “it’s the economy stupid” philosophy. The post-apocalyptic world seems genuine even with magic effective as the audience will accept Terry Brooks’ theory that we of today killed the planet. Thus in this nightmarish future, readers quickly know the courage of Logan and Angel, who could easily walk away to a safer nicer lifestyle.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5