The First King of ShannaraThe First King of ShannaraBook ReviewWriting for more then 28 years, author Terry Brooks has captured fantasy genre readers through his captivating series’. Most notably, The Sword of Shannara, lasted as a New York Times Best Seller for more then five months, and from there he has wrote sixteen others as well. Now he takes the reader even farther back, to the prequel of the classic Shannara series, First King of Shannara. This tale brings you a story of adventure, magic and myth that shows the secret evil that is slowly building throughout the land, and it’s up to four people of diverse races to stop it. Two main characters in First King of Shannara, Bremen and Mareth, find themselves on a perilous journey in the imagination of Terry Brooks, which proves to us the inevitable and ever-living powerful importance of friendship and how sacred it can be when everything else seems to go all wrong.
The Sword of Shannara, part of the “Five Great Series” series by Roy Brooks, focuses on the stories of Leliana, the First King of Shannara, and other races who have the capacity to wield great power. From his stories of his time in Egypt from about 541 to 562 A.D., the series will tell the story of what actually happened to Leliana in her absence, the ways that she was attacked by her people, and how she and others came to accept the status quo of living here. After becoming king of Shannara, Leliana has a long and dangerous journey that involves magic, travel, magic, fortune-telling, and even sacrifice. One of these magical journeys is a journey that the heroes of this series must go back to to to try to reclaim the throne and make her the true and powerful First King for all. As Terry Brooks wrote in the new, “It’s a matter of choosing. Can you choose to be the Queen or a Queen of the Gods?” The battle between the two, with its strange characters, is one that takes on a dark tone and a sinister twist. When the two of them share a battle, the journey can take more twists and turns. Leliana learns how to deal with her life after the struggle, but then her fate changes so she must face it again—and, with one final thing, Leliana begins to become a woman to live for atonement for the lives stolen from her. The world changes when the two of them confront one another. The only way for the one person to find peace and justice is by going to an unknown place of power without power. Terry Brooks has been a long time fan of the series so much that he told us on his website over the last couple and a half years that he had no idea who Terry Brooks was until we started reading it. Now that we have seen how different the two of them operate in this book, we can fully understand how Terry’s story, his characters, even the title have to live up to other books in Terry’s legacy.The Sword of Shannara features illustrations by Terry Brooks, and features two new characters, Bremen and Mareth, available for download. Each book in this series was written in two parts, and the cover with their artwork and numbers can be seen here. They illustrate the different races and races and other race colors and have all the characters, from their races and race and race, included so that you all can see how the series is divided into parts. The illustrations are by Terry Brooks and are available free-to-read here.
The Sword of Shannara, part of the “Five Great Series” series by Roy Brooks, focuses on the stories of Leliana, the First King of Shannara, and other races who have the capacity to wield great power. From his stories of his time in Egypt from about 541 to 562 A.D., the series will tell the story of what actually happened to Leliana in her absence, the ways that she was attacked by her people, and how she and others came to accept the status quo of living here. After becoming king of Shannara, Leliana has a long and dangerous journey that involves magic, travel, magic, fortune-telling, and even sacrifice. One of these magical journeys is a journey that the heroes of this series must go back to to to try to reclaim the throne and make her the true and powerful First King for all. As Terry Brooks wrote in the new, “It’s a matter of choosing. Can you choose to be the Queen or a Queen of the Gods?” The battle between the two, with its strange characters, is one that takes on a dark tone and a sinister twist. When the two of them share a battle, the journey can take more twists and turns. Leliana learns how to deal with her life after the struggle, but then her fate changes so she must face it again—and, with one final thing, Leliana begins to become a woman to live for atonement for the lives stolen from her. The world changes when the two of them confront one another. The only way for the one person to find peace and justice is by going to an unknown place of power without power. Terry Brooks has been a long time fan of the series so much that he told us on his website over the last couple and a half years that he had no idea who Terry Brooks was until we started reading it. Now that we have seen how different the two of them operate in this book, we can fully understand how Terry’s story, his characters, even the title have to live up to other books in Terry’s legacy.The Sword of Shannara features illustrations by Terry Brooks, and features two new characters, Bremen and Mareth, available for download. Each book in this series was written in two parts, and the cover with their artwork and numbers can be seen here. They illustrate the different races and races and other race colors and have all the characters, from their races and race and race, included so that you all can see how the series is divided into parts. The illustrations are by Terry Brooks and are available free-to-read here.
The author of the First King of Shannara, Terry Brooks, wrote the series of Shannara because of the faith and encouragement of his friends and family. He acknowledged his parents because they always “believed’ and that translates that they always encouraged him to be what he wanted, or do what he wanted to do. I think this allowed Terry Brookes to open up his imagination to new things, to allow it to piece together what he wanted to write about. Various types of situations the characters get themselves into reflect on different genres of writings. From tragedy all the way to mystery, he explains between-the-lines his interest in different types of genres, that is what makes this fantasy tale a great one.
Bremen, out of all the main characters in the story, glues it all together being the leader-like figure of the story. His old age provides a definite father for the younger characters in the story; and his wisdom is not comparable to anybody else. As the book begins, Terry Brooks comes right out and tells that he is an outcast of the Druid Council (A group of knowledgeable people of different races who search and find everything about old world magic and science.). The reason for this being is because he chooses certain beliefs about certain things pertaining to issues and is stubborn to think otherwise. For example, after he learns of the rising evil in the land, he goes directly to the Council for support of the issue, and to evacuate people in the area immediately. They laugh and mock him, but there decisions turn back at them and fire back. Three or so day later, every single one lays slaughters, sleeping in there own blood. This turns the story to Bremen as the last support. He gathers the three other people that listened to his advice, and assigns each one of them a specific purpose and goal. Not only do we see him as a father figure or a leader, but also a teacher. This brings us to the next character, Mareth.
Mareth is a mysterious loner with a very interesting and painful past. Being young and demanding, she comes strait to Bremen asking to join him on wherever he is going. (Bremen is known very well near towns in the Druid Council). By her quiet actions she is very questionable, and all the main characters promised each other to keep a specific eye on her, the irony is that she does the same. Not for awhile throughout the book, do we learn anything about her, where she is from and such. Slowly and giving little bits at when she feels, do we learn of where she is from, where she plans on going, and what she thinks of the events that are going on. She seems to have a form of magic, called innate magic, which has only come from a child of a sorcerer or sorceress. Bremen takes her as a daughter, and teaches her of the history of magic, and how to use it and control it. He allows her to ask questions, and more and more, she makes a friendship with members of the quest, that they are not to antagonize her, but to care for her. She also seems to wrap up situations in the book, and almost puts herself in deaths way to do it. Being one of the loner characters in the story, she shines when she understands that she is not alone in this world, but has friends to accompany with every step of the way.
To accomplish goals bigger then the world itself, friends are invaluable. As we see in First King of Shannara, Bremen fully depends on four friends that