![]() ![]() At Paranor, the city that is the centre for the magical Druids, their leader Drisker Arc has been replaced in a power struggle by Ober Balronen, an Ard Rhys who, unlike Drisker, seems to have surrounded himself with subservient lackeys and who seems to run the Druid’s Keep with secrets and paranoid subterfuge.Ī number of events happen early in the book. The Four Lands are in division geographically and politically. Where the initial books were lighter in tone and style and these days would perhaps be regarded as more Young Adult, 400 years on from Shea Ohmsford and the events of The Sword of Shannara we have events happening on a much bigger scale. ![]() My first thought is that how things have changed. The Black Elfstone is the first of a four-volume series to bring things to a close and is widely described as ‘the last’, although Terry may still go back and fill in occasional details afterwards. To be fair, it doesn’t matter too much – each set of books in the series tells enough to allow new readers to follow without difficulty – but I was wondering how things were going, and perhaps how things would end. Honesty time – it’s been a little while since I’ve read a Shannara book. With Terry in his seventies, he’s decided that he will finish the series properly himself rather than have someone else do it for him.Īnd whilst the last quartet is set long after the first and most famous book of the lot, The Sword of Shannara, it’s not a bad place to start. After forty years or so of being published and having over thirty books published about Shannara, The Black Elfstone is the beginning of the end for Terry Brooks’ famous series. ![]()
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