Title: Predictable
Product review: If the author had the ability to make the journey enjoyable, this book's utter predictability would have been less problematic. As it is, the book has a flatness that derives partly from the fact that it's all been done before, and done better. Terry Brooks has ventured deeply into Stephen King territory here, practically duplicating the plot of one of King's novels. Brooks fails to provide suspense, unpredictability, or interesting characters. His characters' magical abilities and his descriptions of their use fail to evoke the slightest sense of wonder; they might as well be mechanics describing the repair of a carburetor. There are long descriptive passages that are dully written and don't advance the plot or tell us anything we need to know. They are padding, and it shows. For the undiscriminating only.
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