First King of Shannara - Terry Brooks

Introduction Having recently been reintroduced to the Shannara series by chance, I thought it only right to go back and refresh my memory of the prequel to Sword Of Shannara. I had read this book about ten years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it but, due to my poor memory, couldn't remember anything about it other than I liked it!! Terry Brooks is an acclaimed writer of top notch fantasy novels of the Lord Of The Rings genre. The Plot Much like other fantasy books of this genre, First King Of Shannara pretty much follows the set in stone formula cast down by previous classics. It is similar in many ways to Sword Of Shannara, yet ...  Read the complete review

In the grand tradition of everyone's favourite epic, 'Lord of the Rings' (by J R R Tolkien), Terry Brooks has managed to create a sweeping vision of good versus evil on our very own humble planet. Unlike 'Lord of the Rings', the Shannara series is set in the future not the past. At some point in the future, once mankind has grown to technological maturity, the Great War wiped out most of the world's population and laid a strange new course for the races. All the old sciences have been lost and, as new races evolved, emphasis has shifted to "magic". The First War of the Races saw a horrific misuse of magic and those who still ...  Read the complete review

The first king of Shamara had been inspired by Terry Brooks the orginal author of the series after he read Tolkien's The Lord of the rings book.Something else I did not know That this book which is part of a series of three will be turned into a movie I Read this on Wikipedia Warner Brother Studio's has brought the rights to this movie and should begin filming after they finish the filming of the final Harry Potter series The deathly hallows. As I have mentioned this book is part of a three book series the other books being 1. The Sword of Shannara 2.The Elfstones of Shannara 3. The Wishsong of Shannara The First king of ...  Read the complete review

I found this book easy to read and most enjoyable. The characters are defined very well, and they all bring something relevant to the story, it provides useful background on the history of the Fourlands and how all the creatures relate to each other. The book begins with introducing an associate of the great Druid, Bremen. Kinson has been awaiting Bremen's return from the Northland to find out about the rumored return of the Evil Warlock Lord. Bremen is an extremely powerful sorcerer however because of his insistence of practicing magic the Druids banished him from his home at Paranor. He returns to Paranor to warn them of an impending invasion ...  Read the complete review

The first king of shannara is a prequel to the excellent SHANNARA series, if you have read 'The sword of shannara' then this book will fill out a lot of the history only briefly touched on in the book as well as providing a good story to go with it. If you haven't read 'The sword of shannara' yet but are going to then read this book first like you would read 'The hobbit' before you read 'The lord of the rings' The story written about in this book is what happened before the events in the book 'The sword of shannara'. The story is about the Elf king Jerle Shannara fighting the warlock lord and all the events ...  Read the complete review