Pre-Shannara: Genesis of Shannara Armageddon's Children, Book 1, (Paperback)

from vampluvr7

I love this book!!! It's the start of a new series about the creation of Shanara!! It shows a slowly decaying world due to nuclear warfare and such. The creatures that haunt our world are very cool and the use of known cities (such as LA, and Seattle) that have fallen into ruin is very eerie!! If...

from SonicQuack

I had no idea whatsoever about the plot-line of Armageddon's Children. I was pleased to discover it was a return to the Word and Void series, and rather excited to see Brooks venturing in to new territory. No fantasy or current era Earth, but a post-apocalyptic Earth where Man has ultimately doom...

from lquilter

It's been 30 years or so since I've read the Shannara books (what is now called "the original trilogy"). I know Brooks has become something of a byword for Tolkien rip-offs these days, but I enjoyed the books when I was a teenager, and imagine I'd enjoy them well enough today. Not everything has ...

from RRLevering

I'm frankly amazed that anyone could give this book a 5...let alone a fairly large percentage of people. Have you read books before? Don't get me wrong; Brooks writes some acceptable action sequences and has some fast moving plot that keeps things interesting at times, but his characters are incr...

from Dog_Ogler

I'm a bit over half-way through this and it has been ok, not great. Several logical inconsistencies and other things a proof-reader should have picked up, but still readable enough. But suddenly, around the middle of the book, he introduces Elves!? The creatures and the way he just chucks them in...