It is a conclusion to the 29-book Shannara series that Terry Brooks has nurtured for four decades.
Wow! The Last Druid is an incredible fantasy epic that was a joy to read.
It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, where it remained for over five months. He then wrote The Sword of Shannara, the seven year grand result retaining sanity while studying at Washington & Lee University and practicing law. That moment changed Terry's life forever, because in Tolkien's great work he found all the elements needed to fully explore his writing combined in one genre. He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.Ī writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read. Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy. Can a young girl free her mentor in time to stop an invasion? And can a strange new science reach a foreign shore in time to alter the fate of two nations.providing the device even works?įilled with twists and turns and epic feats of derring-do-not untouched by tragedy-this is vintage Terry Brooks, and a fitting end to a saga that has gathered generations of readers into its fold. While across the sea, a small band of heroes has been shipwrecked far from the land they seek. And the one who sent him there now stalks the land with a fearsome demon at her side, determined to seize what power she can.
For those who remain, one of their key allies has been banished to the Forbidding: a demon-filled prison from which there is no escape. For as one group remains to defend their homeland, another undertakes a perilous journey across the sea to the homeland of the invaders, carrying with them a new piece of technology that could change the face of the world forever.įor both groups, the stakes could not be higher. The riveting conclusion not only to the Fall of Shannara but to the entire Shannara series-a truly landmark event, twenty-nine books and forty-three years in the making.īringing a conclusion to an epic that has spanned centuries is a vast undertaking, but Terry Brooks is entirely equal to the challenge.Īs the Four Lands reels under a brutal invasion from across the sea, spearheaded by a nation determined to make this land their own, our heroes must decide what they will risk to save the integrity of their home.
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