Eric S. (Shooter) reviewed on 12/28/2010

Helpful Score: 2

It wasn't a bad book, exactly, but I found the storyline to be a bit sparse and mundane, and I skimmed the last half of the book because I thought it was really pretty boring. I don't quite understand how other reviewers found it "enthralling" because so much of it seems plodding. Also, how many times does Brooks really need to tell us that the feeders are at the edges of our vision or invisible to most people? And how many times does he have to remind us that only certain people can see the demon? It seems like this is the author's way of avoiding lengthy visual descriptions -- it's easier just to portray the creatures as "indistinct", or to say that Nest's magic just "happens" without explaining the mechanisms.

To me, compared to many of Terry Brooks' books in the Shannara series, this seems like an amateur attempt. Of course, I also think some of his later books in the Shannara series become too repetitive, so a departure from his usual formula is a change for the better -- even if it didn't hold my interest at all.

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