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I'm glad the reviewer (Ancient Explorer) mentioned Terry Brooks in the same sentence with J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis out of the gate. It told me he's clueless and saved me from reading further. Brook's endless Shannara books (no less than 30) don't merit space on the same shelf with The Lord of The Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia imho, and is hardly "epic fiction". At best, it's hack fantasy "in the tradition of" (e.g. "knock offs of") Tolkien and the Brothers Grimm. It's akin to comparing Gene Roddenberry to Shakespeare. It's not that I don't occasionally enjoy pop culture mind candy as much as anyone, but, it doesn't rise to the level of literary masterworks and any reviewer unaware of that either hasn't read the material, is grandstanding or just doesn't get it. My 2¢ - YMMV.

My comments don't reflect on Bruce Hennigan's book at all, only the reviewer, aka Darrick Dean, author of epics such as Is The Truth Out There?: A Journey Through Critical Thinking that Spans Man's History, Origin and Place in the Universe and Indian History Of Lawrence County. To paraphrase T. S. Eliot, "Some reviewers are failed writers, but so are most writers."