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The Elfstones of Shannara

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Random House Digital, Inc., Oct 10, 2000 - Fiction
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Measure of the Magic.

Ancient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the most fearsome of all Demons. And Wil is without power to control them....
  

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Probably Brook's best writing in the Shannara series. - Goodreads
A nice, slightly ambiguous but mostly happy ending. - Goodreads
Meh. Plot was good, entertaining, kept me wanting more. - Goodreads
This to me is good writing. - Goodreads
It has a very original plot and great twists. - Goodreads
The plot in and of itself was not bad. - Goodreads

Review: Elfstones Of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy #2)

User Review  - Bill Tracy - Goodreads

I listened to this on audiobook, Fortunately, the narrator spoke so slowly I could crank the speed up to 2x and not really lose anything. Also fortunate, because the book is terrible and I got through ... Read full review

Review: Elfstones Of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy #2)

User Review  - Clint - Goodreads

Probably Brook's best writing in the Shannara series. Again, good for young readers who want to get into this genre. Read full review

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Contents

Section 1
7
Section 2
14
Section 3
35
Section 4
48
Section 5
83
Section 6
97
Section 7
106
Section 8
115
Section 22
298
Section 23
337
Section 24
348
Section 25
354
Section 26
371
Section 27
381
Section 28
396
Section 29
416

Section 9
120
Section 10
132
Section 11
146
Section 12
156
Section 13
165
Section 14
200
Section 15
210
Section 16
217
Section 17
230
Section 18
239
Section 19
252
Section 20
274
Section 21
283
Section 30
428
Section 31
441
Section 32
453
Section 33
487
Section 34
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Section 35
509
Section 36
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Section 37
528
Section 38
538
Section 39
540
Section 40
548
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About the author (2000)

A writer since high school, Terry Brooks published his first novel, The Sword of Shannara, in 1977. It was a New York Times bestseller for more than five months. He has published seventeen consecutive bestsellers since, including The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch and the novel based upon the screenplay and story by George Lucas: Star Wars®: Episode I The Phantom Menace™. His novels Running with the Demon and A Knight of the Word were each selected by the Rocky Mountain News as one of the best science fiction/ fantasy novels of the twentieth century.

The author was a practicing attorney for many years but now writes full-time. He lives with his wife, Judine, in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.

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