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After watching the entire first season of The Shannara Chronicles on Netflix, I was deeply curious to find out how the world ended up the way it appeared in the series. Yes, I am probably one of the few who has never read the original Shannara trilogy. So, I began to read these books, beginning with the very first story, his short story called Imaginary Friends. I'm following the suggested chronological order.

Now in the middle of the second book in this Word and Void trilogy, I cannot help but see how what I'm reading seems to 'predict' the current social climate in which we live. It's actually rather frightening to feel as if what I'm reading, what was written back in 1999, is pretty much dead on in describing what I see every single day in the news. Are we headed for the same kind of world seen in The Shannara Chronicles? Probably. If things do not change.

While it is true that Mr. Brooks goes into almost minute detail in his descriptive passages, I do feel that they help to set the scene. However, it is possible to skim over these passages and not miss much in the way of the plot. Those deep descriptions just seem to enrich the story and help to immerse the reader - for me, at least. The characters are just as well thought out as the world that Mr. Brooks has created. It was nice to continue the journey with the characters that I met in Running With The Demon.

Quite impressed with this series so far.


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A Knight of the Word The Word and the Void Trilogy Book 2 Terry Brooks Books Reviews

My immediate concern with any sequel is that it is going to be a retelling of the previous story, with different people and circumstances. This was not the case with "Knight Of The Word." I was thrilled with the direction Brooks went with this. In fact, I was sucked right in with the first chapter, unlike "Running With The Demon" where I was nearly a third of the way into the book before it finally got moving.

This story takes place five years after the last. Nest is now 19 and in college. Her grandfather recently passed and she was left with the family home in Hopewell. Unsure that she even still had use of her magic, she found herself in a dilemma... does she stay in Hopewell and help Pick with park? Or does she sell the house, move on, and make a new life for herself?

Meanwhile, after a tragic and humbling event, John Ross has given up on his service to the Word. What he fails to understand is that the rules of magic won't allow him to simply QUIT. Rather, it leaves him vulnerable to the plight of the Void. He will turn to evil, or be killed before that can happen.

"Knight Of The Word" takes Nest to Seattle to find Ross and deliver a message from the Lady. But as always, the message is vague, and a mystery must be solved before Ross's fate can be determined.

We are reunited with a few old friends, and introduced to several new characters. This story is fresh, imaginative, and stands alone as a pivotal event in the lives of Nest and John Ross.

Much like with the previous book in the series, many other reviewers criticized the simplicity and predictability of the story as it was told. With this I can't disagree! However, in the case of "The Word and The Void" trilogy thus far, although I wasn't blown away by the quality of the writing, I was wowed by the thoughts and feelings it left me with. There is something else deeply rooted within the story. Something awkward, and disturbing... a message or a meaning... a reminder that Evil's power and deception is present in OUR world. Not necessarily in the form of demons and monsters, but within human attitudes and behavior.
My bible starts out with...'In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and God was the word...' so Knight of the Word fit right in. The thing is I do not know enough about other religions to know their genesis, but I do know even atheists can stand this beginning, except God becomes chaos identical to word, and I am not going any further into that. We got a brief introduction to the world in volume one, our world spinning into oblivion. Magic is known, paranormal creatures exist and a struggle for supremacy is going on which humans are portrayed as being oblivious to except for bringing on their own doom. Volume two continues the struggle and begins to show the ultimate winner and concomitant result. The knights are in short supply, demons are proliferating and the genesis of Shannara has yet to be portrayed.
john Ross, a knight trying to renounce his vows, is refusing to follow his calling but is too good a man to reject it. He is torn by opposing forces but fails to see it, he is blinded by love for Stefanie. A woman out of his past, a child at that time, is solicited to track down Ross and try to remove the blinders keeping him from seeing what is going on around him. Nest meets a tatterdemalion, a new favorite of the Author, Brooks, and learns Ross is Seattle working for a well-meaning man but not doing anything for the Word. She flies out to Seattle, meets Ariel and hears a demon feeding on children. The next day she encounters Ross, speaks with him, tells him there is a demon loose in Seattle, and it is close to him and his work. Brooks let us guess, accurately, who it is but goes on with the story. Nest is finished, she plans on going back to Chicago and northwestern university.
Little of human affairs is immutable. Both Ross and Fremantle find their plans changed, both are going to converge on Simon Lawrence as he thanks the city for its generous gift to replace a loss we later learn was caused by the demon covering its tracks after failing to kill Nest. We still know who that demon is, Brooks now tries to fool us, get us to revise our opinion and the book degenerates slightly from that attempt which also seems to be only half-hearted, it is so easily rejected. The pace picks up slightly, we are nearing the end of the book. Ross reaffirms his devotion to duty to the Word, and also regains his magic. Nest finds her magic has changed, also, and the book totters on to its conclusion. Both Nest and Ross go on changed. We still have one book to go.
After watching the entire first season of The Shannara Chronicles on Netflix, I was deeply curious to find out how the world ended up the way it appeared in the series. Yes, I am probably one of the few who has never read the original Shannara trilogy. So, I began to read these books, beginning with the very first story, his short story called Imaginary Friends. I'm following the suggested chronological order.

Now in the middle of the second book in this Word and Void trilogy, I cannot help but see how what I'm reading seems to 'predict' the current social climate in which we live. It's actually rather frightening to feel as if what I'm reading, what was written back in 1999, is pretty much dead on in describing what I see every single day in the news. Are we headed for the same kind of world seen in The Shannara Chronicles? Probably. If things do not change.

While it is true that Mr. Brooks goes into almost minute detail in his descriptive passages, I do feel that they help to set the scene. However, it is possible to skim over these passages and not miss much in the way of the plot. Those deep descriptions just seem to enrich the story and help to immerse the reader - for me, at least. The characters are just as well thought out as the world that Mr. Brooks has created. It was nice to continue the journey with the characters that I met in Running With The Demon.

Quite impressed with this series so far.