Wards of Faerie: the dark legacy of Shannara

✍ Scribed by Terry Brooks

• Book ID: 100049976
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group;Del Rey
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 363 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0345523474

✦ Synopsis

Seven years after the conclusion of the High Druid of Shannara trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks at last revisits one of the most popular eras in the legendary epic fantasy series that has spellbound readers for more than three decades.

When the world was young, and its name was Faerie, the power of magic ruled--and the Elfstones warded the race of Elves and their lands, keeping evil at bay. But when an Elven girl fell hopelessly in love with a Darkling boy of the Void, he carried away more than her heart.

Thousands of years later, tumultuous times are upon the world now known as the Four Lands. Users of magic are in conflict with proponents of science. Elves have distanced their society from the other races. The dwindling Druid order and its teachings are threatened with extinction. A sinister politician has used treachery and murder to rise as prime minister of the mighty Federation. Meanwhile, poring through a...