Terry Brooks - Armageddon's Children

Pros: Strong and interesting characters, good action scenes

Cons: A bit too much brooding, occasional clunky phrase

The Bottom Line: Brooks' strongest book in a long time, Armageddon's Children is a keeper

Review: Having run his Shannara series into the ground, Terry Brooks has decided to show us how it all began. With Armageddon's Children, Brooks not only begins to describe just how the Four Lands came into being, he also manages to tie in his (unread by ...

Pros: good post-apocalyptic setting

Cons: slow plot, shallow characters, definite influences from other books

The Bottom Line: Recommended for a weekend read but little else, because despite the book's length there's not much of a story

Review: There is a world very unlike ours. Humans live in closed compounds against the outside world, "once-men" roam the hillsides, the once-booming cities are empty except for outcasts and strange creatures that appeared from no-one-knows-where, even the earth ...

Pros: Somewhat interesting story, Intriguing characters

Cons: The Story just stops, A little bit harder reading level

The Bottom Line: Interesting story. I recommend it hesitantly.

Review: My husband and I like to listen to audio books when we drive. This is one we picked up from the library recently to listen to. I've read Terry Brooks once before and found it semi interesting. There isn't a big selection of books on CD at the library ...

Pros: Does a good job of pulling together a dozen other people's plots

Cons: derivative

The Bottom Line: Don't be fooled by this apparent post-apocalyptic fiction: it's just another ripoff of LOTR, The Stand, and a gazillion trilogies.

Review: Somewhere in [a distant land | the future | the distant past | another dimension | Washington, D.C.] the never-ending Battle between Good and Evil plays out on life's stormy stage. Evil, in [his | her | its] persona of a [brutal ...