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Summary: A must-read for Terry Brooks fans
Review: Angel Fire East is a great example of what a masterful storyteller Terry Brooks has become. I believe it to be one of his best. He does a great job creating the stage where most of this story takes place. Hopewell, Illinois is socked in with an ugly winter storm which just gets worse as the events unfold. Brooks always takes time to give the reader insight to what is going on in the heads of these characters which gives this novel a depth and impact which is satisfying. Read the other two first then enjoy this great conclusion. Let's hope there's more in the future!
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Summary: Its Brooks it has to be a good read
Review: This book was an overall good read it is just as good as any of the others in the series and considering I am a bit of a Brooks nut I highly recommend you get this book.
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Summary: Definately not Brooks's best ..
Review: I am not a fan of Brooks's works. However, I've read his Shannara series before and I enjoyed it tremendously. It's fast pace, with the characters well told and he kept the plot interesting from the beginning till the end (for the first 2 books at least). Unfortunately, I can't say the same for his latest "Word vs. Void" series. I picked up Knight of the Word some time ago after finishing Eddings's Tamuli, thinking it would be at least as good as Shannara. It's not one of the best book that I've ever read, but still it makes me wanna read its sequel, which unfortunately is also a let-down. (I nearly slept in the middle of "Running With Demon"). Next came Angel Fire East (I borrowed it from a friend - its in my not-worth-buying scale) - my my am I in for another disappointment(read: a boring fantasy tale that should have ended a long time ago)! Its another long-winded tale of John Ross and an older Nest Freemark battling to save the world from the void. In came "morph", a powerful creature, in the verge of allying itself to either the Word or the Void. Yup .. u guessed it. The limping John and pretty Nest must save the world yet again, this time by preventing the morph from joining the void. Well, about the plot, u don't have to guess what's gonna happen before u flipped the pages .. everythings plain and simple. No humor, no vividly described great-scaled battle and magic, no plot-twisting. An apology for Brooks's fan, but this is really NOT a good fantasy book. Wished that Brooks killed off the characters and the series in the first book and came out with something of the standard of the Shannara's series.
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Summary: Best of this series
Review: Angel Fire East is a better all around story than either of the two previous novels in this series (Running with the Demon and Knight of the Word). It is not entertaining or as engaging as his Shannara series, however. As always he does a good job in portraying the main characters, and leaves several surprises for the end. All in all a good read.
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Summary: Brooks Casts A Spell
Review: The incomparable Terry Brooks is in top form with "Angel Fire East," the third installment of the "Running With The Demon" series. In this one, Knight of the Word John Ross, compelled by his relentless dreams, is on a quest to locate a creature, born of magic, he knows only as a "Gypsy Morph." Once he finds it, he knows he will have but a short time to unravel its secret if it is to become the powerful ally he needs in the ongoing struggle against the Void. Then something happens that takes him back to the town of Hopewell, Illinois, and his old friend, Nest Freemark, who he has not seen in ten years. There's a connection, it seems, between Nest and the Morph; but it's as much a mystery to Nest as it is to Ross. Now it's up to Nest, as well as Ross, to figure it out before it's too late, all the while fending off the demon who would have the morph for his own sinister purposes. Brooks weaves his own magic here with a narrative alive with tension and suspense. There is a sense of urgency to the story, over which the menace of the darkest demon Brooks has yet created, one Findo Gask, hangs like a pall. Along the way we meet Pick, the little Sylvan caretaker of Sinnissippi Park; the Indian O'olish Amaneh, also know as "Two Bears"; Nest's friend, Bennett Scott; all of whom are more than just characters in a book; these are people you get to know, care about, and want to spend some time with. And then there's the malevolent trio of demons under Gask's command: Penny Dreadful (whose name says it all), the hulking Twitch, and a creature of shadow, known as the Ur'droch. Long after you've finished the last chapter, you're going to remember all of them. It's all a part of the spell Brooks casts, and I promise you, it will leave you wanting more of the same.
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Summary: Good except for......
Review: Excellent book in my opinion. While others say that it was a bit long winded in spots and is boring to read through all of his descriptions, I look forward to the great detail. He builds the characters from the ground up and makes you feel everything they are feeling... if you take the time to read all of the detail that is. The only thing I didn't like was the ending. He wound the book up in 4-5 pages and it just didn't sit well with me. 50 pages of wonderful fight scenes as only Brooks can do was completely ruined by a quickie ending. Wish he's spent 10-15 more pages explaining what happened to the characters afterwards.
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Summary: A waste of time
Review: This book will bore you to tears. For all the books he has written Brooks has only produced a few readable books. This isn't one of them. I don't know why I even bothered. Save your money.
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Summary: A passable read, but spend your money elsewhere
Review: I've been a Brooks fan for some years now, and while I didn't initially take to the first book in the series, the second one was such an improvement over the first that I started reading the third with some expectations. "Angel Fire East"'s plot is slow and meandering, even going to the point of taking up nearly two pages of Nest and Pick bickering over nothing at all. And that's what the book felt like: nothing at all. The villains were unconvincing, the writing was lackluster, and even the scenery was off--one of my pet peeves from the first book, admittedly. (I've driven on the real Lincoln Highway mentioned in the book, and I have no idea where a steel mill would be, let alone the cliffs.) The mystery of the gypsy morph gets drawn out and over-dramatized to the point where, by the end of the book, I just didn't care. The end scene with Nest and Gask both disgusted me and made me want to laugh--I never thought Nest would take a demon's word at face value, but I guess I was wrong, since it was the only way the writer could contrive the ending. There are some good parts to the story, but in my opinion, the ending heavily destroys what good he'd built up, that he hadn't already destroyed himself. Please give this one a pass--you won't miss it.
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Summary: Angel Fire East
Review: As a big fan of Terry Brooks' effortless way of keeping you in suspense awaiting the next installment, I throughly enjoyed this book. It tied up many loose ends and left the reader wondering what would continue in the footprints left by the story's conclusion. For those who have read and followed the Magic Kingdom and Shannara series, both of which left me wanting more(a new series, character, or idea), this series continues the tradition. I feel it is worth reading more than once, as I certainly will.
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Summary: A page turner as always
Review: A confessed Brooks junkie who has read every book, this series hasn't proven quite as good as past works. However, I have enjoyed the modern aspects of the Knight series. This finale was a page-turner with good characters and a solid ending. If you like Brooks, this book is worth reading.
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