Witches' Brew

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Summary: The second best Landover novel yet
Review: Book 5 was especially creative and kept me interested; much better than the long-winded #4 in this series. Almost as good as the original Magic Kingdom for Sale! Holiday's daughter is an intriguing character and I liked following some of the story through her eyes. What now, Terry??

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Summary: Great book. Need to read the "Tangle Box" first.
Review: Book Five of the Landover series by Terry Brooks. Plays off the ending of Brooks' last landover book -The Tangle Box-. The story line: A King from another land outside of landover challenges Holiday for the crown and medallion of Landover. Holiday refuses and his daughter Mystaya is kidnapped. Holiday must accept the chasllenge if he is to get his daughter back. The challenge is he must defeat 7 creatures sent to kill him. What he doesn't know is that his daughter is unaware she has been kidnapped and is helping create the monsters sent to kill her father. In the end Holiday and her daughter both figure out what is secretely happening and expose the truth. To give more detail would ruin the book. Read it if you liked the Tangle Box!

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Summary: Best of Landover Series
Review: I hate Science Fiction- but Terry Brooks has me hooked. This is a terrific book and full of terrific suspense. The Landover series, however doesn't even break the seal of any of his Shannara books. Terry keeps writing books and I keep reading them. I also liked what he did with Hook- the screenplay- too bad it was directed poorly.

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Summary: Left Hanging
Review: I really enjoyed this book but I would REALLY like to know what happened to the witch and if she got out of the zoo. I hope that if Mr. Brooks reads this that he'll decide to write at least one more book and add it to the series.

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Summary: Lighthearted fantasy in keeping with Landover mystique
Review: I was a big fan of Terry Brooks' Kingdom of Landover series when the original books came out. Because I was a member of the Science Fiction Book Club, receiving regular mailings, I always saw when the next one came out and made sure I would get it right away. At some point, however, either my subscription ended or I got the series before the final book, Witches' Brew came out in 1995.

I've never read Brooks' critically acclaimed and bestselling Shannara Series, though I did come across his The Word and the Void trilogy and was fascinated by those, but they ended a few years ago. It wasn't until I decided to sell my Sci-Fi Book Club edition of The Tangle Box on eBay that I discovered there was a fifth and final book to the Landover series.

The book was fantastic, to say the least, a very lighthearted fantasy in keeping with the earlier books. I was pleased and enchanted by the book, and it didn't take long for me to remember bits and pieces of the earlier novels as I went along.

The story was entertaining as well, as a stranger calling himself King Rydell of Marnhull comes to challenge Ben Holiday, King of Landover. Ben and his sylph wife, Willow, decide to send their magical daughter, Mistaya, away because of the danger, but the girl is abducted along the way.

Not much heavy reading here, but very much a story to enchant kids of all ages. I would be most grateful if Brooks were to follow it up, but maybe I'll just have to start reading the numerous books of the Shannara series.

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Summary: Not as good as the others.
Review: I was a bit disappointed in this installment of the Landover saga. I felt that it didn't live up to the standard set by the previous four. Ben Holiday seemed a bit out of character in that he didn't even think of Nightshade as being part of the picture. That doesn't sound like him at all...he would never overlook her, no matter how long she'd been gone. Still, it was an enjoyable book, but I still prefer the others.

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Summary: Not as good as the others.
Review: I was a bit disappointed in this installment of the Landover saga. I felt that it didn't live up to the standard set by the previous four. Ben Holiday seemed a bit out of character in that he didn't even think of Nightshade as being part of the picture. That doesn't sound like him at all...he would never overlook her, no matter how long she'd been gone. Still, it was an enjoyable book, but I still prefer the others.

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Summary: This book was great.
Review: In this book, Ben is attacked by a shade who was once his guardian, chased by a giant worm, and attacked by a giant, to name a few

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Summary: Again, another great novel by Terry Brooks.
Review: The best book of the series, I loved every word of it. This book has everything. I loved how old enemies became friends, old friends became new enemies, and how everything wound itself together so much that there was nothing else for the end but one climatic explosion throwing you for loops you never expected. Half the time I spent reading this book I was in total shock from the surprise of not knowing what was going to happen next. You could not end any series of novels better than Terry Brooks did with this one. This was as great book and a must read, you will really enjoy it if you like the magical and suspenceful elements of fantasy novels as much as I do.

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Summary: Witches' Brew, the best fantasy book of its kind
Review: This book gave me chills the second time I read it, let alone the first! I liked it because it reads smoothly, has suspence, and over all just a good story. It normally takes me two to three weeks to read a book of this size, but i finished this one in 2 days. I couldn't put the book down. I hope that Terry Brooks comes out with some more books in this series. (I might even have to spend the money to get a hardcover)