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Armageddon's Children (Genesis of Shannara)
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- Author: Terry Brooks
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD
- Release Date: August 2006
- ISBN-10: 1423322584
- ISBN-13: 9781423322580
- List Price: $24.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryIf you have never read anything by beloved fantasy writer Terry Brooks, take your chance with Armageddon's Children, a rich and absorbing epic in which the world lies in ruins as the powers of darkness and light battle for control. Want to learn more? Watch our video featuring Terry Brooks:
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Strong fantasy
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Brooks has written a long engaging tale of elves, humans, demons, and magic. Monsters include lizards, croaks, and a giant centipede. Children street gangs seek survival as demons lead once-men to wipe out the human race. The two remaining Kights of the Word are the only defence and their hope rests in finding the child born of magic, the gypsy morph. Brooks creates tension with external action and (long) interior monologs. His characters elicit sympathy. One is left hanging on disaster at the end and that forces the reader to book 2. Enjoyable.
A new genesis
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I've loved Brooks' writing for many years now and this new series continues his great tradition of excellent stories with great thoughts and values.
With this novel, Terry begins to bridge the gap between two of his main story threads...that of the world of Shannara and that of the world in the "Word and Void" series.
The characters are approachable and each filled with their own strengths and flaws. As readers, we are taken on a voyage of self discovery along with the characters as they interact with the struggle between good and evil in the post-apocalyptic society.
You can certainly approach this story without having read Brooks before, but it would be advisable to have at least read the Word and Void series before starting on this journey. Even though set a hundred years or so beyond the first Word/Void book (Running with the Demon), it builds on the framework created there and your understanding will be greatly enhanced by starting with Word/Void and working your way into this novel. Reading the various Shannara series before this one are unnecessary and it could be argued that you should wait for this series to be done before you start Shannara, just to keep the chronology right...but then you're just depriving yourself of other fabulous works while you wait for this series to complete.
Jumbled story lines and NO ENDING AT ALL
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Armageddon's Children was a HUGE disappointment. I liked the Sword of Sh.. and the Magic Kingdom series, but this book was a waste of time for me. It felt like a very rough draft of a work for college creative writing. There are few different story lines, none of which were worth it to me. A male Knight of the Word with an impressive Assault Vehicle, another female knight who battles demons, some kids in a wasted city, and some odd story about Elves. One the male knight and the kids intersect anywhere in the book. None of the story lines is very compelling, and at the end of the book there IS NO CONCLUSION. The end has two of the main characters being thrown off a wall, and the city invaded. The female night is being chased by a demon, and the street kids are moving while some invasion is starting. The book just cuts off all the story lines. It is not even a cliff hanger, but rather just runs off a cliff and stops. What a waste! I will not get the next book, since it was boring to plod through this one. I felt cheated by the LACK OF AN ENDING.
exciting convergence of two series
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This is a book I've been waiting for--a continuation of the demon series, connecting it to the Shannara series. I'm calling it horror instead of fantasy, because that's what the tone feels like to me--and because the demon trilogy was horror. Barnes & Noble calls it "dark fantasy," but isn't that really just another term for horror?
It's a post-apocalyptic world, a hundred years or so after Angel Fire East. Humankind has gathered into small groups for safety and survival, living in abandoned sports arenas or office buildings. And then there are those on the outside, like the boy Hawk and his little band of children. Mistrusting adults and mistrusted by them, the children form a family of their own, and live by scavenging and bartering.
The humans are in danger from territorial disputes with each other, but also from the demons who've gained ascendancy in the lawlessness. The demons have slave camps in which they experiment on humans and turn them into creatures known as once-men. And all that stands between humans and the demons are the Knights of the Word: Logan Tom and Angel Perez.
Logan Tom's been waging war against the slave camps, but he has a new mission: to find and protect the gypsy morph--a sort of savior that first appeared in the demon trilogy.
Angel Perez's mission of protecting children is also changed, when she's tasked with finding and assisting elves in their quest for the loden stone, with which they can protect and preserve the Ellcrys--a sentient tree that figures prominently in several of the Shannara books.
And there are the elves themselves. Young elves serve the Ellcrys for a year, and it's usually an uneventful life, but then the Ellcrys speaks to Kirisin, warning him of impending doom and telling him the steps to save the Ellcrys and with it the elves.
Armageddon's Children is quite definitely the first in a trilogy--some issues are resolved by the end of the book, but most are not. I wasn't specifically aware of that when I started reading, but I wasn't surprised--most of Terry Brooks's books come in trilogy form.
I found each of the plot threads exciting, and the characters engaging, if tending toward the young-ish side.
The only thing that really gave me pause was the romance between Hawk, who's in his late teens, and a young settlement girl, who's 11. Creeped me out a bit. Still, it's not a huge part of the story, and most of the time I could pretend she was a few years older, so it didn't ruin the book for me.
I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series, The Elves of Cintra (Genesis of Shannara).
snooze
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Having just read Elves of Cintas I can only wonder how Terry Brooks
really makes a living. Same story line, just different characters, same
endless descriptions of bad weather journeys etc. If you cut the needless fill from his books you would have one good book for each of his trilogies.
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