#BOOKFILLER - Terry Brooks and Bloodfire Quest

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Right after I was done with Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire series, I jumped back to Bloodfire Quest. It's the second book in the Dark Legacy of Shannara series.

Sometimes I wonder how it's able to sustain my interest and like for so long. This series I mean. You thought it'd end with one sacrifice after another. But it doesn't. And you are pulled pulled pulled deeper. Betrayal, deceit, hope and loss and tangled in one lump that makes you wonder if there is any way for the heroes to ever come out unscathed and unscarred.

Looking back on the previous books, Brooks makes use of the same formula that made all the others under his name such a success. It's the way in which he does it. There were times when you thought it'd be pretty straightforward, sometimes you just wish that it was as easy as that. If that were the case, I guess we can forget about the books being as successful as they are now. Brooks recipe in never giving his characters an easy time, placing one obstacle and challenge after another. Compromises and sacrifices, the need to twist words to get things done, relying on the unlikeliest of characters and placing your trust in them because it would be suicide to trust anyone else. Forced out of your comfort zone and be burdened with almost outrageous responsibilities to ensure the survival not just of your race, but of all good in the world.

Heavy huh?

Now off to read Witch Wraith, the final book, and pray I don't bawl too much.