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Title: Antrax (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 2) by Terry Brooks ISBN: 0-345-39767-3 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (86 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantasy at its Best!
Comment: I got Terry Brooks's Antrax for Christmas and immediately dived into another of his always enjoyable books. This book surprised me as it bested the first volume of the series, Isle Witch. I liked Antrax because of the characters, the plot, and the new style of fantasy that he has created. It is not a copy of Tolkien's work. The plots are completely dissimilar. He mixes the plots with twists that hint at mysteries and deceptions that leave dying for the answer! The characters are appropriate and well developed and the story of the Isle Witch's self-deception is fantastic and imaginative. The new style in which Brooks writes is a techno-fantasy. There are now airships in the land of the Four Lands. It is growing up and magic that once dominated is being scorned. Antrax, which is a machine itself, is very fascinating. It is almost comical in how the characters describe the laser weapons (fire threads) as well as surveillance cameras and heat sensors. The book also introduces cybernetic creatures reminiscent of Star Trek's Borg Collective! It also strikes me that you can look back on the book and think that this could really happen! Great Book and a must read!
Rating: 4
Summary: Fantasy meets Science-Fiction
Comment: In "Antrax," Brooks brings back the characters of the Rovers, Truls Rohk, Ryer Ord Star, Walker Boh, the Ilse Witch, Quentin Leah, Ahren Elessedil, and Bek Ohmsford in their journey to Casteldown to retrieve the magic books. In the last book, the city of Castledown attacks their party and splits them up. Now we see the group of magical warriors fight against technology from a civilization which destroyed itself long ago.
The mixture of science fiction and fantasy works well I think. There is the occasional error where a warrior from the land of magic knows what something is called here; for example, Quentin Leah looks at an opening and calls it a ventilation duct. Do they have ducts in the realm of Shannara? For the most part, the world of science is referred to more general terms to show you that the warriors are not familiar with what they see.
The book, as are most of Terry Brooks' books, is like reading a serial movie from the first half of the 1900s. You will find yourself reading continuously so that you can find out what happens next to the different parties as they struggle to find each other.
I am looking forward to the next book to find resolution between the Druid, Walker Boh, and the Ilse Witch. Since this is a part of a series, you have the ending which hints of even grander things to come.
If you are not a Terry Brooks fan, you will find yourself lost in this book. You will need to be familiar with the Shannara series to understand this.
Rating: 4
Summary: New Ideas in the Fantasy Genre
Comment: I found this book to be a great improvement over Ilse Witch. I finally get the feel that I know the characters as each struggles to survive in Castledown and I enjoyed how the author incorporates the old world technology into the fantasy world. The characters confront the power of a machine that seems an eerie reflection of our own and the reader can't help but wonder if our civilization came before the magical present that is Shannara. The whole situation with Antrax was very well thought out and complex. Of course, the whole concept of sinister science reaches melodramatic heights, but it makes for a more compelling 'villain' than exists in most current fantasy. Brooks definitely brought some new elements to his writing in this novel and almost all was to the betterment of his work.
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Title: Ilse Witch (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 1) by Terry Brooks ISBN: 0345396553 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Jarka Ruus (High Druid of Shannara, Book 1) by TERRY BROOKS ISBN: 0345435737 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: First King of Shannara by Terry Brooks ISBN: 0345396537 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Talismans of Shannara by Terry Brooks ISBN: 0345386744 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 31 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Elf Queen of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, Book 3) by Terry Brooks ISBN: 0345375580 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 23 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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