Loved this book, and wish I had read it when I was much younger. I thought the concept of a fantasy kingdom accessible by a hiking path in the mountains of Virginia was a very original concept, and the characters and settings in this book made it an enjoyable read. Looking forward to the future volu...
Nostalgic reads are always dangerous territory. To be honest, I was willing to risk this reread nuking any fondness I had for the book. When I first read this at 13 or 14 I remember thinking it was a cool idea and that it had humor -a talking dog, haw!- but was disappointed even then that it had lef...
Read this years ago and loved it. Thought it was such a fun, fantasy book. My mom got those christmas wish books every year and I, too, would have wanted to investigate an entire magical kingdom!
"pocket universe" fantasy; rather than the epic worlds created by Tolkien, which took the heroes five months to cross on horse-back, Landover seems to be at most the size of South Jersey, but which is enough space to put in (a) one dragon, (b) one consistent system of magic, (c) one set of disgruntl...
The first thing that struck me when I read this book was that I could tell that Terry Brooks, in his former life, was a lawyer. That in and off itself is not surprising since the job of a lawyer is basically to tell stories. Okay, probably not corporate lawyers and such but if you are in criminal la...
This was a fun quick read for me. It's a bit obvious where it was going and what was going to happen. It has all the stereotypical fantasy tropes in there and it isn't the best use of them. However, it seems like the book often pokes fun at itself and other fantasy books. It's light and enjoyable, l...
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