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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The Gypsy Morph seems a little out of kilter with the rest of the series. This final volume contains all the classic requirements of what makes a true Brooks story, the heart-felt challenges, the epic struggles, the fight of good vs evil and a plot which writhes like a snake, however something is amiss. For the first time we have a real sense of exactly what is going to happen and although plenty of new elements are brought in to play, there's no real gasps of surprise. The once fresh scenario of Armageddon's Children is now just the expected background, where more pointers to Shannara would have been welcome. The book is still a good read, guaranteed to be a page-turner, however it lacked the sparkle previous books have created. (  )SonicQuack | Jan 14, 2009 |   Third and final entry in the Genesis of Shannara fantasy trilogy in which all of the heroes and heroines of the previous two books unite—Knights of the Word Angel Perez and Logan Tom, the boy Hawk who is also the gypsy morph, and Kirisin Belloruus, the young elf who successfully found the Loden elfstone and used it to protect his people. They come together to fight the demons that have taken over the world, and in their little corner of the universe set out to find a safe haven that Hawk has been promised he will find by the King of the Silver River, where those who are protected will weather the nuclear storm that is coming. The road toward their destination is fraught with danger and some don’t make it. But some, of course, do. This series of books successfully ties together with Brooks’ Knight of the Word ‘modern fantasy’ trilogy to form the prequel to his epic “Shannara” fantasy series, begun more than thirty years ago. And he does so very successfully and in grand fashion! I greatly enjoyed this book (and the whole series) and look forward to re-reading the earlier Shannara books at some point and getting around to finally reading some of the more recent Shannara trilogies as well. Well done, Mr. Brooks! I just wonder what you’ll get up to next! A. (  )Spuddie | Nov 5, 2008 | worldsedge | Sep 27, 2008 | I love the Shannara series so I'm probably not to objective about this book. I thought it was fascinating to read the whole "Genesis" series & see how Brooks would weave all the "past" into his "future". Fun read. ( )StephyLynne | Sep 11, 2008 | Great book. I thought it would have more action, or complete things a bit more, but I was wrong. Author left it wide open of yet another series. (  )SLHobbs | Sep 3, 2008 | 0.051 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345484142, Hardcover)Terry Brooks won instant acclaim with his phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara. Its sequels earned Brooks legendary status. Then his darkly enthralling The Word and the Void trilogy revealed new depths and vistas to his mastery of epic fantasy. Armageddon’s Children and The Elves of Cintra took Brooks’s remarkable mythos to a breathtaking new level by delving deep into the history of Shannara. And now, The Gypsy Morph rounds out–with an adventure of unforgettably imaginative scope–the first phase of a new chapter in this classic series.Eighty years into the future, the United States is a no-man’s-land: its landscape blighted by chemical warfare, pollution, and plague; its government collapsed; its citizens adrift, desperate, fighting to stay alive. In fortified compounds, survivors hold the line against wandering predators, rogue militias, and hideous mutations spawned from the toxic environment, while against them all stands an enemy neither mortal nor merciful: demons and their minions bent on slaughtering and subjugating the last of humankind. But from around the country, allies of good unite to challenge the rampaging evil. Logan Tom, wielding the magic staff of a Knight of the Word, has a promise to keep–protecting the world’s only hope of salvation–and a score to settle with the demon that massacred his family. Angel Perez, Logan’s fellow Knight, has risked her life to aid the elvish race, whose peaceful, hidden realm is marked for extermination by the forces of the Void. Kirisin Belloruus, a young elf entrusted with an ancient magic, must deliver his entire civilization from a monstrous army. And Hawk, the rootless boy who is nothing less than destiny’s instrument, must lead the last of humanity to a latter-day promised land before the final darkness falls. The Gypsy Morph is an epic saga of a world in flux as the mortal realm yields to a magical one; as the champions of the Word and the Void clash for the last time to decide what will be and what must cease; and as, from the remnants of a doomed age, something altogether extraordinary rises. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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