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Loading... A Knight of the Wordby Terry BrooksSeries: The Word/Void Trilogy (2), Shannara Universe: Chronological (2)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Here's where I end my love of Terry Brooks. Didn't like the first book of W&V that much; this one just got worse. Brooks started to depart from form after The Wishsong of Shannara. (  ) simondavies | Sep 30, 2009 |  It is now a few years later, and John Ross, Knight of the Word, has lost his way. Or, he just wants to lead a normal life. This is a common complaint of the superpowered. He decides to settle down, have a relationship, do a bit of social work and that sort of thing. This is very seductive, and just what the Void wants. Nest Freemark must try and snap John out of it, at considerable risk, as if the Void doesn't get to him, the Word may send an agent to remove the risk he now poses. http://superprose.blogspot.com/2006/1... (  ) maketest | Aug 26, 2009 | I didn't like this series nearly as much as the Shannara books. However, since the two series are now linked, these are a must for the shelves. (  ) SLHobbs | Feb 10, 2008 | The second book in a trilogy of a slightly future universe in peril from demons and feeders who act to bring out the worst in people. An interesting, and scary premise, is the world doomed to spiral down and end in evil? ( ) Karlstar | Aug 25, 2007 | It is now a few years later, and John Ross, Knight of the Word, has lost his way. Or, he just wants to lead a normal life. This is a common complaint of the superpowered. He decides to settle down, have a relationship, do a bit of social work and that sort of thing. This is very seductive, and just what the Void wants. Nest Freemark must try and snap John out of it, at considerable risk, as if the Void doesn't get to him, the Word may send an agent to remove the risk he now poses. http://superprose.blogspot.com/2006/1... ( ) bluetyson | Dec 12, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0345424646, Mass Market Paperback)John Ross, the tortured, conflicted Knight of the Word from Terry Brooks's Running with the Demon, finally gets a good night's sleep in the sequel. He buys this moment's peace at the cost of his sacred oath to be a champion of the Word, renouncing that pledge after failing to prevent the slaughter of a group of schoolchildren. Duty and destiny are difficult to elude, though, and soon his former charge Nest Freemark, now a college student and Olympic hopeful, arrives to warn him of his imminent destruction, or, worse, his unwitting fall into the service of the Void.The story winds lazily through sleepy, wet Seattle like a tour bus, steadily building. Everything eventually converges on the homeless shelter where John works with his new sweetie Stefanie Winslow for über-activist Simon Lawrence, a man his dreams tell him he is fated to kill. A thin mystery clouds the identity of the demon conspiring to deliver John unto evil, but the book's real focus is John's fitful, foot-dragging attempts to fulfill his destiny. Knight doesn't provide the suspenseful energy of Running, a book that followed Nest through the dramatic loss of her childhood, but it rejoins her as she assumes the responsibilities of young adulthood and--like that period in life--still manages to deliver satisfying, if more subtle, rewards. --Paul Hughes (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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