Have you ever walked around tired, not having acquired quite enough sleep because you were so into a book you kept reading well past bedtime? Some books are hard to put down. I find this to be the case with epic adventure author Terry Brooks, who in my judgment is the finest adventure fiction writer there is.

Terry Brooks is an author who develops vivid characters and intricate plots woven around thrilling, suspenseful action.  The settings for  his books are fantasy lands where there always seems to be evil brewing, threatening, looking for a place or way to flourish.  Races of trolls, elves, dwarves, gnomes, and humans form allegiances, wage war, and struggle for peace or dominance.  The action involves a council of Druids, dedicated to the study of magic and the assistance of all races.  But where magic and power exist, so too does temptation and subversion.  Some Druids forsake their oath to benefit society and instead lust for their own power, stopping at nothing. Inevitably, the theme is repeated time and again, the struggle between good and evil.  As a reader of these chronicles, it is fascinating to get caught up in Terry Brook’s world of epic quests, dangerous voyages, powerful magic and raw treachery.  Once involved in a Terry Brooks novel, it is almost impossible to set the book down.

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