A review by kodermike
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

3.0

Really 3.5 stars, but I chose to round down. My biggest issue with this freshman novel by Brooks is that he hadn’t learned to show instead of telling yet. I admit, I wasn’t surprised by the heavy borrows from Tolkien, but (and this is why I marked it spoilerly) I can’t help but wonder if Goodkind didn’t in turn borrow heavily from Brooks with his Sword of Truth. Either that or the Sword of Shannara gets around.