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But simple narration and small accomplishments of the characters that leads to unbelievable acts of heroism and the usual revelations in corny but touching events are exactly what fans want. To lose themselves in a story that will whisk them away from their hectic and boring lives. What can I say This book does wrap up the trilogy but the result seems flat and hollow compared to the previous two. Some mysteries go unexplained, some storylines just fade into othing and we once again are forced to deal with a story that gets developed nicely over a long period and then wrapped up too quickly in a few pages.

A voyage that took months, and a good part of the first book, to accomplish, is completed in very short order on the return leg in this book. I guess the world was perfect over those 6 months or so.. One wonders a great deal about what continuations there are to the lives of those who are left Maybe its a prelude to another book, but if the majority of the Brooks books have taught me anything, its not likely we will find out anything more about most of the characters.

I quess they just all came home and lived their lives - altough its precisely THERE that this book could have made some interesting reading and story development since the voyage back over 6 months on a skeleton crew was infinitely simpler and without incidence as compared to the voyage out with a fully manned and provisioned ship. If you've read the other 2 books, read this to complete to story - but you will likely feel the same way Set To Familiar Adventures Reading this book and it is extremely exciting Terry Brooks is a master of turns of plot. I haven't read better. He is good at what he does, That is if you love Great Fantasy as I do.

Rowling all write great adventures with twisting plots and exciting characters that you both love and hate. Terry Brooks keeps me up late at night with the best of them. While I love Terry Brooks' writing style and ordered as many as I could of his books, eventually it was disappointing to me that the main characters met such sticky ends.

I wished poor old Walker Boh would have succeeded somehow, and Grianne could have had some happier experiences.

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Ahren Elessedil led a lonely life and the Elf nation did not know what he did or his ancestress, Wren went through. Each young character also spent too long doubting themselves and I kept on thinking "get on with it; believe you can do it". In the end they did it but the greater population never found out. What they did was the stuff of legend, but the legend was never truly passed on to the following generations. Perhaps I just like a happier scenario and I know reality is not like that. But it is not always as dismal as this either. See all reviews. Most recent customer reviews.

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It would take a long time and a real lack of reading material for me to pick up any further in the Shannara series. If you liked this try: Jan 02, Martti rated it really liked it. So finally we get some proper fantasy from Terry Brooks. I was ready to throw Brooks into the recycle bin of fantasy, but this trilogy is definitely the best that Brooks has written. Also it's a proper trilogy, meaning that it's a consistent story simply split up into three books. You cannot read only one of the books and be satisfied, because you won't have the feeling of a completed book.

And I don't know about you, but when I start something, I need to finish it - even if it's a zero-star exp So finally we get some proper fantasy from Terry Brooks. And I don't know about you, but when I start something, I need to finish it - even if it's a zero-star experience and I will rip the book apart afterwards and set it aflame while hysterically laughing. The fantasy that I said we're gonna get in this one, is the fact that finally we have MAGIC that is actually being used to create some exiting grand changes in the world and by that I mean considerably less whining from the characters and flying fraking ships!

Also we get more interesting character building, regrets and betreyal from this trilogy than all the other books put together from the beginning of Shannara. It almost seems that these books were written by someone else or Mr. Brooks went to a writing class, finally. View all 3 comments. Mar 22, Jesse Whitehead rated it did not like it.

There are, in my admittedly limited view of things, four kinds of Western fantasy disregarding the urban fantasy genre that is so popular lately, I see that as just an extension of the faerie stories that every culture throughout history has created. The four kinds that I am talking about are all Tolkien derivative. None of them is like Tolkien's work but they draw inspiration from it. There are the fantasy histories like Kate Eliot and Steven Erikson. There are the fantasy journeys like David There are, in my admittedly limited view of things, four kinds of Western fantasy disregarding the urban fantasy genre that is so popular lately, I see that as just an extension of the faerie stories that every culture throughout history has created.

David Farland and Brandon Sanderson write fantasy that pays homage to Tolkien's work but don't fit an obvious mold. The fourth is what I call Tolkien fan fiction. These are the books by authors who lacked the ability to create their own worlds and stories so they borrowed them. Sometimes this works okay Weis and Hickman because of interesting characters. Sometimes it doesn't work at all Paolini, Goodkind because it is lifted whole from other works. Terry Brooks belongs to the fourth group, mostly. When I was younger I loved Terry Brooks.

I read every one of his novels that I could get my hands on, as many as sixteen of his books. Something changed, either me or him, I don't know which, probably both. Perhaps I have read too many books by better authors. Maybe I've studied to much about writing.

Whatever the reason I find it hard to get through any of Terry Brooks novels in a timely manner. Morgawr is the third book of a trilogy called The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara. The first too books I found horribly tedious and only finished them because I was assured that this third volume was significantly better. It was, but that isn't saying much. The story focuses on a group of characters who have survived a horrible attack by some kind of ancient computer that happens to use magic as its power source. Despite the improbability of it being able to do Unable to deal with the bad things she's done she goes semi comatose — she walks around when led but otherwise she is completely unresponsive.

Because of her former nature everybody pretty much wants her dead, except her long lost brother Bek Ohmsford. Her old master, the Morgawr, is among those who wants to kill her, along with everybody else — because he's evil and his friends are lizards. People fall in love, friends die, shapeshifters never ever change shape and Grianne stares blankly in front of her, all with almost no emotional impact. None of the characters seem different at all.

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In fact they don't really feel like characters so much as puppets placed in situations so that things can happen to them. Terry Brooks has, apparently, never heard the old adage 'show, don't tell'. If you want us to believe that a characters is suffering from the effects of PTSD, don't tell us, show us. The story is so consumed with navel gazing and introspective passages explaining that this characters has this emotional turmoil — no really, he does — that the story itself probably takes up a third of the pages.

The writing is also difficult to read because Terry Brooks is quite fond of the passive voice. Every sentence is written in passive voice. The effect of this is that everything feels like events happening to characters rather than characters participating in events. Terry Brooks has been writing in this world for over thirty years. I expected somebody with that much experience to think things out more clearly. His monsters are all huge and have lots of teeth and razor sharp claws. Or they are given ambiguous names that mean nothing. Magic has no description whatsoever.

Magic users 'lash out' and 'strike' and 'trace down lines of power' without any indication what any of that means. Elves are just humans with pointed ears. They don't have any different culture, or different views. They don't live longer than humans or think differently, they only exist because Tolkien had elves in his books.

Never mind that Tolkiens elves are immortal and kind of creepy and alien and arrogant and different. Immortality changes ones views. Dwarves are all grumpy and use axes in battle. Shapeshifters are prevalent but they never bother to change shape — maybe there were budget cuts in the special effects department. Anything that looks reptilian is evil, always. Grianne Ohmsford spends six months in a catatonic state and never in all that time has to be fed, given water, changed or bathed. She actually sits in a chair all that time and when she does finally wake up she gets up and goes out to do battle with no stiff muscles or signs of atrophy from six months sitting in a chair.

Maybe it was the lack of food that kept her fit. Some characters survive simply because they happened to have hidden things previously that the reader was never told about Redden Alt Mer just happened to have a single wing glider stowed on his old air ship or just by plain design from the author Quentin Leah 'swims' with the rock fall and comes out with only bumps and bruises, while a big animal falls on him later and nearly kills him — so that Grianne and Bek can be the heroes in the end — Quentin was obviously too capable.

Terry Brooks still sells a lot of books so there must be something that somebody likes in his writing. A lot of somebodies, apparently. I, however, have given him an honest try. The last four of his books that I read I had to force myself to get through. I enjoy my Calculus books more than these. Whether I have changed as a reader or Terry Brooks has changed as a writer I just can't punish myself with this any longer. I am through with Terry Brooks. Dec 12, Rick Piatt rated it it was amazing.

Oh my this book has it all happenin'! Action, suspense, an anticipated end but with twists and turns, great magic system, creepy foes, unexpected deaths of many - even some main characters, great -GREAT- character development.

Did Terry Brooks really write this series? I enjoy the Shannara setting, it's a classic fantasy setting and I feel comfortable and at home when I'm there. This book and this whole series is Well if all the other Shannara books are a pan simmering on the stove top, th Oh my this book has it all happenin'! Well if all the other Shannara books are a pan simmering on the stove top, this trilogy is a pan boiling out of control.

This trilogy started off formulaic. Mysterious Druid recruits two young men any guesses who they might be related to? Honestly I didn't expect much beyond what I'd read in the previous books in the Shannara world. That was ok because I felt like visiting Shannara anyway so this was going to be like going on vacation to a location I'd visited numerous times in the past - there probably wouldn't be anything shocking but it would just feel good and cozy. But somewhere along the line this hotel was upgraded The book kept getting better and better.

When the second book came up I couldn't wait to continue the story and holy cow did it deliver. So I rushed forward to this final volume hoping Brooks would somehow pull it off. I had seen a number of 2-star reviews which had me concerned that the book would just fall flat ruining the entire trilogy. That most certainly did not happen. You won't hear me say that.

Morgawr (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, #3) by Terry Brooks

This trilogy on whole outshines Elfstones and in particular Antrax and Morgawr scream "this is how a fantasy book should be". I'm rating Morgawr just a smidgen higher than Antrax because it wraps up much not all of the lose ends in a very satisfying way. There are no cliff hangers at the end but you will find yourself wanting more details about how certain characters resolve things A very sneaky way to drag me to Shannara yet again in The High Druid of Shannara trilogy that picks up the story about 20 years after the end of Morgawr.

Feb 14, Squire rated it really liked it Shelves: Thrilling finale to The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara. It doesn't deviate from the Shannara formula as the best Shannara books do , but it plays very well by it's own rules. There's another budding romance between an Ohmsford and a Rover girl, another Leah moves from a romantic adventurer to a sadder-but-wiser leader and several characters survive who probably shouldn't have. But Brooks gets high marks for making his later Shannara books darkly optimistic. View all 4 comments. Jan 12, Sallee rated it really liked it Shelves: This was the third book in The Voyage of the Jerle Shanara.

After reading the second one of the series, Antrax, I wanted to read the whole series even if it meant starting in the middle and then the third ending up with the first book, Ilse Witch. In this last book there was plenty of action, lots of horrible happenings, lots of psyscological thinking, learning to trust others and fantastic escapes. This is what a fantasy should be. Can't wait to finish this series. Feb 19, Carl Alves rated it liked it. After having thoroughly enjoyed the first two novels in the Jerle Shannara series, my expectations were quite high for this novel.

Perhaps it was those high expectations that I had that led to this novel being somewhat of a disappointment. The biggest flaws that I can point to is that certain points of the novel somewhere around the After having thoroughly enjoyed the first two novels in the Jerle Shannara series, my expectations were quite high for this novel. The biggest flaws that I can point to is that certain points of the novel somewhere around the middle felt very repetitive.

Also, in general, I thought this novel was fairly predictable. Whereas, other big characters were fair game to get killed off in the previous novels, in this one, the author seemed very reticent to kill off any protagonist of any consequence. At its heart, this was a fun epic fantasy adventure. Terry Brooks is a very accomplished and professional author and that was demonstrated here.

In general, the last volume of a series has a tendency to disappoint, and although this was a solid effort and fairly enjoyable, it did not wow me. Carl Alves — author of Two For Eternity Mar 07, Rick rated it it was ok. Brooks' previous work, Antrax, was full of so much action and so many twists to the plot that this book seems rather weak by comparison.

It is a good enough story, but it feels more like filler and where there is some action it is rather boring. Much of the book contains an inactive Isle Witch, heroes that are healing up after getting beat by the villain s and just the general angst of Brooks' protagonists. Apr 24, Dyane Forde rated it really liked it. Enjoyable read--a good ending to a great story, though I thought the actual ending was a little abrupt. Luckily, the preview of the next book took the edge off.

I went out and got it. The one thing I didn't quite buy was the main romantic relationship in the story. It felt forced to me, but I eventually got over it and settled in for the ride. So glad I discovered Terry Brooks and his incredible world. Intensely gripping, this spellbinding world promises just a taste of the wonders of Shannara. Terry Brooks has to be one of the leading writers for the fantasy genre, with his Shannara series being something truly outstanding, undeniably brilliant and totally original.

The voyage of Jerle Shannara is the third book in the Morgawr trilogy consisting of Ilse Witch as book one and Antrax as book two. This exquisite hardback edition displays one of the most eye-catching and imaginative covers, tha Intensely gripping, this spellbinding world promises just a taste of the wonders of Shannara. This exquisite hardback edition displays one of the most eye-catching and imaginative covers, that stands out on the bookshelf as a treasured volume.

For fans of Terry Brooks and for those readers who enjoy fantasy at its very best, then I cannot enthuse enough about an exceptional writer who deserves as much accolade as JRR Tolkien or Robin Hobb with his works sitting alongside other greats on the shelf. Continuing the quest in Morgawr this epic saga comes to its long awaited and dramatic conclusion, as forces of good and evil collide for that ultimate victory over all. Harrowing confrontations between a merciless Ilse witch and the menacing Antrax persist, whilst the fate of an ancient magic race hangs in the balance.

But a darker and more deadly foe begins to come out of the shadows and into the light, which is all powerful and fearless. Morgawr the master of the Ilse witch and ancient sorcerer of centuries old feeds upon the tainted souls of his enemies to gain power and dominance over all. With a ship and crew of walking dead, Morgawr sets sail in pursuit of the Jerle Shannara. His goal is to not only destroy the Ilse witch, who betrayed him, but also to find and control the fabled ancient books of magic. Confronting the harsh truth whilst exposed to the power emanating from the Sword of Shannara, she flees into her own mind seeking out those who might be able to save her.

The destiny predicted for her by the Druid Walker Boh rests on a knife edge as too does the future for all, both good and evil. Memorable, distinctive characters weave together this complex and captivating adventure of a lifetime that is a story of heroism and great sacrifice, love and honor. Fans of the Shannara mythos will be entranced once more, satisfied by this explosive finale and the promise of new wonders yet to come. Terry Brooks is not only one of my favorite author who never disappoints but whose highly acclaimed series reflects such dedication, time and effort and imagination as to make it so believable and real.

Shannara is a place where dreams become reality, where magical beings come to life and where your mind is taken on such a rollercoaster ride that will delight, astonish and amaze. Jan 25, Aidan Roraback rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Anybody who likes fantasy. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. First off, this book is the last book in the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy. It is a fantasy adventure novel for readers who enjoy magic and monsters, and lots of plot twists. This book finishes off Antrax as a whole, and introduces the Morgawr into the voyage as he tries to destroy the remaining members of the company.

Bek runs from danger with Truls Rohk and his sister who is suffering from severe shock of what the Sword has revealed and the possibility of what it would mean, while Red A First off, this book is the last book in the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy. Bek runs from danger with Truls Rohk and his sister who is suffering from severe shock of what the Sword has revealed and the possibility of what it would mean, while Red Alt Mer struggles to keep the expedition together.

Ryer faces her destiny while Ahren and Quentin try to become whole again. Spoiler Alert This book is a good conclusion to this trilogy and will satisfy the reader with it's deep character arcs. What I liked about this book was how the writer wrote the thoughts of the characters so well that I could follow every decision they made like I was the one making it. The villain of Morgawr, Morgawr, was an excellently written antagonist because he was just pure evil, which gave the reader something to immediately dislike about him.

This helped build a lot of tension towards the climax to make it even better. I liked this book very much, and even more than the last one. I also loved Alt Red Mer character because he was very interesting in the fact that he lost his fearlessness at one point, but his luck saved him at the end. Spoiler Alert What I didn't like about this novel was the romance between Bek and Rue, because it was too awkward for me, and it felt very unnatural for Rue's character as an untrusting, headstrong person to break down multiple times and "to kiss Bek hard on the lips" multiple times throughout the end of the story.

Additionally, I feel like when Grianne finally came back at the end, she overdid her internal conflict with her past of the Ilse Witch and it kind of felt like she was just taking up pages with her dialogue about redeeming herself. The last thing I disliked was that the Morgawr was a little too weak at the end. Feb 03, Eric rated it liked it. So here we are! The conclusion to the most riveting trilogy of all time!

I highly recommend you read my reviews on the previous two books in this series before continuing.

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This is somewhat of a trilogy in-and-of-itself after all. As the trilogy progressed, we learn that a number of our primary heroes i. So logically, when they So here we are! So logically, when they combined their nigh-unto-invincible powers together as a team, they generally spent their time running and hiding from lizard-men or spindly robots.

To the book's credit, however, it never lacked for action and firepower. Given the entire known and unknown universe of magic and science , Brooks was free to paint virtually anything imaginable or unimaginable onto his canvas. A friend introduced me to the principle of "Deus ex Machina" while reading this series, which I was then able to identify again, and again, and again However, the trilogy delivered exactly what I was looking for — a quick read and some therapeutic release to the endless hours at the office.

I got what I expected; therefore, 3 stars. Mar 25, C. Finally finished this trilogy that has long been on my shelves. Rounding out the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara is this third book that picks up the events of Antrax. I must say that the previous book in trilogy for me was a much faster read and my expectations for this one were rather high. But Terry has always had a strong sense of who his characters were and wanting to know what happens to them, who survives the Quest, who does not and who turns out to be changed after the events, were the reaso Finally finished this trilogy that has long been on my shelves.

But Terry has always had a strong sense of who his characters were and wanting to know what happens to them, who survives the Quest, who does not and who turns out to be changed after the events, were the reasons why I also tore through this one in about 20 days. Morgawr is actually the mentor of the Isle Witch who has tried to stop the druid, Walker Boh, and his band of heroes from taking the quest from Aborlorn to recovering the fabled Books of Magic in Castledown where Antrax lives.

But at the end of that novel, she has found out that her mentor, abducted her when she was a child, made her believe that her family was dead and killed by the Druid. She has carried out her plans, manipulated people and killed in order to get her revenge on Walker. But he tricked her into holding the Sword of Shannara and thus shown the truth about who she is.