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Review

Review | The Elves of Cintra – Terry Brooks

By Aidan Moher May 18th, 2007

The Elves of Cintra – Terry Brooks

The Elves of Cintra - Terry Brooks

Hardcover
Pages: 400
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: August 28, 2007
ISBN: 0345484118

Last year’s Armageddon’s Children was a pleasant surprise from veteran fantasy author Terry Brooks. It was a break from the norm, a grim look at a post-apocalyptic world in which the men and women of the world (those that are left, at the very least) fight violently for the survival of the human race against the equally grim and violent Demons and Once-men.

Armageddon’s Children was a departure from Brooks’ usual foray into fantasy tropes and it was exactly what the author needed to revitalize his storytelling methods. While the set of books before Armageddon’s Children (The High Druid of Shannara trilogy) felt a little stagnant and underdeveloped, Armageddon’s Children felt fresh and exciting. It was clear that this was a story that Brooks wanted to tell for a long time and was just waiting for the right time.

Armageddon’s Children was fantastic, easily the best book Terry Brooks had written in several years.
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The Manifesto

By Aidan Moher May 18th, 2007

Welcome to A Dribble of Ink!

Why should you care about this blog when there are so many others out there? I’m sure you’re asking yourself that very question right now.

Well, it’s kinda simple… here at A Dribble of Ink I hope to bring some cool stuff to the table that will not only help me satiate my desire to geek out and talk about something I love (reading and writing), but I also hope to help other people out, too.

The fantasy publishing market is an extremely competitive place and there is a lot to slog through, what I hope to do is help out some of those authors who I appreciate and admire. I want to help those authors find the audience they deserve, especially when it comes to all the new and exciting authors entering the field right now. I’ve been reading fantasy for a long time now, and I can’t remember a time when the genre had so many young, exciting voices entering the field as there are now. Whether it’s Joe Abercrombie or Patrick Rothfuss, Eldon Thompson or David Anthony Durham these great authors deserve to have their wonderful books read, so if I help them find even one more reader, then I’ll feel my time has been worth it.

This also means I’m looking to help you, the reader, out, too! Hopefully I’ll expose you to some work you may not have heard of before or otherwise.

Besides all this I plan to do reviews: I have a couple of big ones lined up, including the world’s first official review of Terry Brooks’ latest book The Elves of Cintra; interviews: again, I’ve got a couple of big ones lined up already and my blog has only just launched! Look for Patrick Rothfuss and David Anthony Durham in the near future; Author retrospectives: I’ll look back at the careers, lives and works of some of the writings most well known figures; even musings on the art of writing: I know a few writers, both published and struggling who can help put the world of writing and publishing into perspective.

Hopefully I’ll be able to excite and intrigue you enough to add me to your RSS feed. You may not agree with everything I have to say, but hopefully I can at least make you think a little.

But most of all, I’m just pushing off on my voyage now, taking the first step of my thousand mile journey, and I’m looking forward to seeing where the journey takes me… and hopefully you’ll be along for the ride, too.

~Aidan Moher