I've been meaning to read this book for a while since the Shannara books are such a staple of the fantasy genre. I'd been putting it off for a while, though, because I'd heard that it's fairly derivative of Lord of the Rings. Turns out those criticism were right. As well-written as this is, it reads more like LOTR fanfiction, revisiting all the greatest hits from Tolkien's work and simply repackaging them in slightly different form. Based on how disappointingly derivative the story and characters were, I don't think I'll be reading the next one as much as I thought it was well written.

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