Tanequil is the second book in Terry Brooks current series, The High Druid of Shannara. It contains all the elements you’d expect from a Shannara book and yet somehow something is missing.
Our primary villain gets very little face time, yet when he does he comes across as little more than a schoolyard bully. The secondary villains don’t actually seem to do anything despite lots of talk. A character who has been…
typecast:
1: cast repeatedly in the same kind of role
2: identify as belonging to a certain type;
The word of course is used to describe actors who are stuck playing the same parts again and again. But authors can find themselves in a very similar situation. After reading Jarka Ruus, it strikes me that that is exactly the situation Terry Brooks finds himself in.
Brooks first book, The Sword of Shannara, was…
As a big fan of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, I was very intrigued to hear that Stephen Donaldson was planning a final chronicle. Well apparently he’s well past simply planning it now.
The Runes Of The Earth is the first of what will apparently be four books collectively titled The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. The first chapter is available at Stephen. R. Donaldson’s official website in Adobe Acrobat format.
Anyone…
I should start this review by stating that I’m a pretty big Doctor Who fan. So there is a built in bias in favour of this book. On the other hand who but a Who fan would read Doctor Who novels anyway?
Buy Infinity Doctors
This particular novel is somewhat special, helping to celebrate the thirty fifth anniversary of Doctor Who. It has a lovely white cover with an embossed Doctor Who…
No, I don’t know if that’s a pen name or not.
L.E. (for short) has built up a quite impressive commercial reputation writing books about the land of Recluce. Obviously he’s finally got bored of that, so we have a new world to explore.
Buy The Soprano Sorceress
This new world has some interesting features to it. Our heroine, Anna Marshall, is a professional singer from our world who finds herself inexplicably in…
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