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The Gypsy Morph (2008)

by Terry Brooks(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0345484142 (ISBN13: 9780345484147)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Del Rey

series

Genesis of Shannara

review 1: The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks is the third book of the Genesis of Shannara series set in the Shannara universe. This book completes the journey and the stories that began in the earlier books in this series. The main theme deals with of course the Gypsy Morph discovering why what he must do is important. At different times as friends and others around him are killed he finds himself doubting whether there is anything worth fighting for anymore. This is a dangerous as there is still the army of demons led by Findo Gask heading straight for them and the zombie apocalypse will soon be ended by the nuclear apocalypse. At the same time several unlikely love stories have developed which causes the characters to act in ways that don't seem fit the world of survival. I was ... morestruck when reading this story about how much dark fantasy has come to dominate the modern field. The stories would fit as well in a Greek tragedy as people who the reader feels for get killed left and right. I wonder whether this darkness and hopeless attempts at survival do not tell us something about our society. We live in a golden age yet little purpose remains for us thus these nihilistic stories of survival have come to dominate our escapist literature. Overall it is an interesting story but darker than I might prefer.
review 2: Brooks is a good author, but not a great one. I read this because it was post-apocalyptic fiction, and because I read his Word and the Void series years ago, and learned that this was a continuation of that and a bridge with his earlier Shannara, so it sounded intriguing. I'm a hoarder and builder by nature, and Brooks certainly isn't. Whenever he presents a great place to settle down, build, and acquire and amass stuff, it always seems to be at the leaving phase, or the arriving phase, but never at the building phase, which is what I would be most interested in. His main purpose is to move the characters in a journey, so a stable and safe location is the ending, not the focus, of his stories.It is also annoying the way he kills off good characters so casually. It makes me trust him less as an author. Some very important characters die in this book, and I don't feel that he gives them their proper due. He also has some major characters leave the group, which could lead to some very interesting side stories, but these are not explored. You hear what happened to them 400 years later in the Bearers of the Black Staff, but not enough to really satisfy you, and the story is very unsatisfying.Logic problems abound in this story. I won't go into all of them because it would involve too many spoilers. But the most annoying was an earthquake right next to a cracked and fragile dam that didn't do any fresh damage to the dam. It made no sense at all. I did find the side story about the missile silo operator very interesting; that was a nice touch.I recommend this for Brooks fans and for anyone who is interested in post-apocalyptic fiction. But be aware that Brooks is not a great author in this genre. less

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Arpita

hmmmm... Hawk and the ghosts join up with Angel Perez, and the elves (most of which are being carried with the tree in an elf stone by Kirisin Belloruus), Logan Tom, and a whole bunch of children and their caretakers make their way to above Spokane Washington, to a place not much touched by the demons, once-men, etc...they face off against the once-men and Findo Gask... with Hawk burying most of the once-men, and Logan coupled with Simerlyn, destroy Findo Gask.and once in place... once the elves are released (houses, streets, tree and all)... and the groups seem to be moving to their own 'corners' Hawk (as guided by the Old man of Silver River) creates a dome/mist/separation of himself/his magic to protect them all from the destruction of the world... trying to figure out the roots of future books... of course you have the Belloruus's... who will be the Ohmsfords (music magic?)... what buried machinery is the core of the Word Knights/magician's Palomar? do we ever meet Panther and Catalia (lizard)'s (who do not go under the dome) in the greater world? hmmmm

Temfrances

Enjoyable but at times doesn't have the same lengthy arc'ing story lines as others in the series/sub-series. Toward the end of the book it seemed to join and wrap up various loose ends pretty quickly without the level of detail given to other parts of the story. This isn't necessarily a bad choice to do, but different from what I'm accustomed to with the usual writing/progression. I would still recommend this book as it fits in with the sub-series and the overall Shannara series, of course.

tania

I loved the three books in the trilogy. I can't wait to read the rest of the Shannara books.

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