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Advantages: Easy to read, fairly enjoyable if you switch your brain off - one for younger readers
Disadvantages: Repetitive - if you read one Shannara novel, you've read this too

...I totally didn't enjoy reading Wishsong – at the time, it was easy enough to switch off my brain and get caught up in the whole ‘what happens next?’ that comes from Brooks’ writing style, full of cliff-hangers at the end of chapters. However, after finishing the novel and sitting down to gather my thoughts for a review, I don’t seem to be able to find much to recommend it – especially as it’s a writing style that seems to confuse yoda-style syntax ...
...being repetitive. Wishsong introduces perhaps just enough new elements to be labelling 'cyclical' instead, so I'll bring it back up to three - but you have been warned! Price: £6.39 at Amazon Alternatively, the Sword of Shannara Trilogy is available in one volume for just £10.49 ... Read review

Advantages: All the Landover stories are excellent for both lovers of fantasy books and comedy books
Disadvantages: May need to read rest in series to fully appreciate the book

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, was ages ago that I read it but can still remember it, as with all the Landover series. This is the sixth book in the Landover series, and by the look of it the last. The hero is Ben Holiday, a man from our world who saw an advert in a christmas catalogue that had been to interesting to pass up, the chance to be King of a land where childhood stories are real. Being unhappy with his mundane life he went for it and ...
...cope various hardships and of course disbelief that he was actually there. He has an adviser called Abanathy, who was accidently turned into a dog by another adviser, a wizard called Questor Thews. These two are constantly bickering which makes for funny reading. By the time this story happens Ben thinks that he has finally found peace in Landover as all conflicts are over and he is happy to sit back and watch his daughter, Mistaya, grow from a seedling. ... Read review

Advantages: Best books i have ever read!
Disadvantages: They had to end at book 3

What can i say.. I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN!! it was so in depth with an amazing plot and character detail that you could really imagine being there with the characters in a living breathing world. After that i went and bought this box set and have re-read the the 3 books again and again! Although marketed at children i would say adults would get far more from the book as it covers many difficult issues such as religion and authority and contains ... Read review

Advantages: fantastic quality of writing
Disadvantages: none!!

...- and questions about what Polgara was doing from time to time, which basically forces Ce'Nedra to come and demand the rest of the story. So, from before her birth, through her early years, the marriage of her sister and subsequent death, falling in love and fighting thruogh wars, losing her lover, and puberty, and through it all, safeguarding the line of Riva. Polgara's story is often heartwrenching - I don't mind admitting that the quality of ...
...that Leigh is coming into her own on this story - its occasionally hilarious as well, as the trademark Eddings humour shows through. This isn't just Polgara's story, its the story of kingdoms rising and falling, its the story of the study of medicine, and mostly its the counterpart study of human nature to Belgarath. Once I started this one, i literally couldn't stop reading, its a superbly written book with truly startling characters, and it just ... Read review

Advantages: Incredibly well written
Disadvantages: not long enough!

...begins with a journey - Belgarath and Ce'Nedra go to see Belgarath to nag the story out of him - and, of course, to see Polgara's twin children, by Durnik. Eventually, the stubborn Belgarath gives way to the implacable young queen and begins his life story, right from the start. Born Garath, in a village with no name, to a people who didn't have a name, Garath was a theif, a rogue and a liar and was cast out from his village to wander alone. After ...
...who refused to follow Gorim to UL, and stays with them for a while before setting off again to eventually, dying in the snow, Aldur finds him. And begins to train him to be a sorcerer - by means of hard labour. Exceedingly well written, this book is completely unputdownable (great word eh?) - teh characters are vivid and real, the story is gripping and the style just sucks you in so far you don't read the story as much as live it. This is another ... Read review