The same can be said for any of the characters in the book really, they are not given anything but the bare minimum of the trope they are meant to fill. They are interested in each other and that is about the lot of it. Brooks wanted the love story to be it falls flat as neither of these characters have anything but the basest of character traits or interests. For as big of a part of the narrative Mr. He had a base for a very compelling character which he then smothered in an infantile Love Interest Obsession to the point where it felt as if the reader was reading Auris's diary where she was writing out her instant love interest's name with hearts surrounding it page after page. Auris thinks thing B is a certain way and nothing else is needed.Īuris is a dull caricature of what the author thinks a nineteen year old girl is like. Auris hates thing A so that's all we need to know about it. Which seems to be a reoccurring theme of the entirety of the plot. The most we get in this book is the author via his first person narrator telling us how in love she is with the place. A good fantasy story should suck you into it's world, make you fall in love with the setting as the character does. This is least spoiler-y of examples but certainly not the last. There is a confusing lack of descriptions of anything in this fantasy world, for instance early on in the novel the main character notes that she warms herself by a "strange heater" and that is the entirety of what is said. I had never read a Terry Brooks book before Child of Light and I'm not sure I will read another one after this. I was given a ARC from Netgalley and I can only hope this is a draft that has yet to see an editor. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, where it remained for over five months. He then wrote The Sword of Shannara, the seven year grand result retaining sanity while studying at Washington & Lee University and practicing law. That moment changed Terry's life forever, because in Tolkien's great work he found all the elements needed to fully explore his writing combined in one genre. He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.Ī writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read. Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy. Told with a fresh, energetic voice, this fantasy puzzle box is perfect for fans of Terry Brooks and new readers alike, as one young woman slowly unlocks truths about herself and her world-and, in doing so, begins to heal both. Yet how could a woman who looks entirely human be a magical being herself? But strangest of all, when he brings her to his wondrous homeland, she begins to suspect that he is right. Odder still, he seems to think that she is one as well, although the two look nothing alike. Harrow claims to be Fae-a member of a magical race that Auris had thought to be no more than legend. And it is here that Auris’s journey of discovery begins, for she is rescued by a handsome yet alien stranger. So she and some friends stage a desperate escape into the surrounding wastelands. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the children’s prison, and rumors say that the adult version is far, far worse. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. Since the age of fifteen, she has been trapped in a sinister prison. At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an.
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