Rylen wrote:As I am reading though The Gypsy Morph I have come to the conclusion that Brooks seems to up the body count of primary characters that won't make it to the end of the books. Mind you this was a trend he started back in Wishsong. But seems to be a constant theme in his follow up books.
Having just began reading the Shannara series of books last year and having read several of them by now, I think that is the one thing I really dislike most about Terry Brook's writing style which is his love of killing off major characters. It is a huge disappointment to get invested in characters, to come to know them as well as can be expected, and then to see them killed. It's almost heartbreaking. Of course you expect some characters to die at some point when reading a novel, book series, etc., but Brook's seems to go way above the norm for such events.
Right now I have begun reading "The Voyage Of The Jerle Shannara, Ilse Witch", again as I had read some of it a few months ago but got busy and never got back to it so I decided to start again from the beginning to refresh myself. I really loved the few books before this one and I think I am a little disheartened that I won't be reading about all of them and their adventures again, except for one of them who carries over into this book, if I understand correctly. Still, I am looking forward to continuing on with the story. I don't think I have reached the Word and Void stuff yet though so can't comment on that just yet.