Running with the Demon - Terry Brooks

Fourteen-year-old Nest Freemark has always known that she was different. Different in several ways: that she lives with her grandparents after her mother committed suicide, not knowing who her father is. That her best friend is a sylvan - a woodland elf-like creature, a few inches high, who rides around the park on an owl’s back. And that she can see the feeders in the park. Feeders are all teeth and yellow eyes, waiting to devour the negative emotions of humans - and quite possibly the humans themselves. Nest sees them when no one else can - swarming in the shadows, waiting… Terry Brooks is famous for his Shannara series and its various ...  Read the complete review

Running with the Demon is the first book of Terry Brooks' "The Word and the Void" series. Telling the story of Nest Freemark whose life of magic takes a new twist on the arrival of two strangers in Hopewell, one a demon, the other a knight seeking to alter the fate of mankind Brooks' world of Hopewell and Sinnissippi Park is the beginning of another great series by the author of the Shannara series. Plot Nest is aware of a growing presence of the feeders, a shift in the balance of magic within Sinnissippi Park has resulted in feeders becoming bolder than ever before and worse still a greater evil is stirring within its oak prison, ...  Read the complete review

There are times on your life when reality all becomes a little too much to cope with. You know what I mean, when the daily grind begins to get too much, that traffic jam just seems to be going on and on and on, or in my case, when I get vomited on by a drunk teenager for the fifth time in the night (hey, I work for the Ambulance Service, it's an occupational hazard!) Times like these call for a little bit of escapism, something to take you away from it all and descend into a world all of your own without these distractions. It was during one of these dreary moments when I came across what seemed the ultimate cure in my local WHSmith. In the book section ...  Read the complete review

Terry Brooks is one of those authors (or people) who I have a dislike of for no real reason. I've not read any of his books although I once tried 'Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold' but couldn't get into the flow of it but what really put me off was my dad. He read the first Shannara novel (I hope I've spelled that correctly) and maybe a few more and got fed up and left them and when he talked to me about them he said something along the lines of 'Terry Brooks couldn't have written these if 'The Lord of the Rings' hadn't been written a long enough time beforehand for a) Brooks to read it and b) people not to notice that Brooks was ...  Read the complete review

After Just finishing the Shannara series I decided to read the next set of books from Terry Brooks the Word and the Void series which starts with the current book I will be reviewing here called Running with the demons. Here are the two other books in the series: Book 2 A Knight of the word and finally book 3 Angel fire East All these books that I have mentioned are written by Terry brooks. Story Nest lives with her Grandparents Evelyn and Grandfather Robert also known as Old bob. Nest there Grand Daughter comes from a family who posses Magic that is to be used help look after the land. She is neither ...  Read the complete review