The sword of Shannara

by Terry Brooks

Mass Market Paperback, 726 pages

English language

Published Sept. 10, 1978 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-31425-3
OCLC Number:: 7235069

(11 reviews)

A young man and his brother set out on a journey to find the magical "Sword of Shannara". Only the mystical sword can defeat the evil overlord and his minions.

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4 stars

This was a pretty flagrant rip of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, but very good in its own right. Brooks tells a very compelling story and despite its similarities to Tolkein's works, it stands as a good work of fiction. I got wrapped up in reading it and couldn't put it down at the end.