Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin, rejoice… a new book-crush is here. At number three on the New York Times Hardcover Best Seller list this week, Wards of Faerie is the first in a new series by Terry Brooks. For those of you who fall in love with this book, you’ll be happy to know that, while you will have to wait for the next in this series to come out, you can visit the three decades worth of Brooks’ work that involves Elven and Faerie lore.
Has anyone read this book yet? Planning on it? I’m about to download a sample to my Nook – I’m itching to see if it can be my next page-turner.
I’ve read only one series (I think it was a trilogy) by Brooks and I really enjoyed it. However, I think the only way I might be reading this one is if my sister buys it (she likes his works) or my library stocks it.
They aren’t good enough to buy? This is the first I’ve ever read of his books.
I loved the Sword of Shanarra Trilogy and prequel, and have been collecting the rest of the series. I picked up an arc of this at ALA, but I still need to read it.
I started it last night and got a good chunk of it read. So far it’s pretty entertaining.
I thought as much with the ones I’ve read. Someone people seem to think Sword of Shannara is a take off on LOTR, but they seem to think that about most epic fantasy written post LOTR.
Interesting… because of the elves? Anyway – I’m very much enjoying this book so far. Am a tad surprised because I don’t typically pick this kind of literature.