He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.Ī writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read. Clizia Porse, the one who sent him there, now stalks the land with a fearsome Jachyra at her side, determined to seize what power she can.Ĭan Tarsha Kaynin free her mentor in time to stop an invasion? And can Tindall's strange new science reach a Skaarsland in time to alter the fate of two lands on opposite sides of the Tiderace.Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy. To make matters worse, Drisker Arc has been banished to the Forbidding, a Demon-filled prison from which there is no escape. For as one group remains to defend the Four Lands, another has undertaken a perilous journey across the Tiderace to Skaarsland, carrying with them a new piece of technology that could change the face of the world forever.īut across the sea, the airship carrying Annabelle, Tindall's great contraption, has been blown off course, ending up far south from the land they seek. It was published on October 27, 2020.Īs the Four Lands reels under a brutal invasion from across the sea spearheaded by the warlike Skaar, our heroes must decide what they will risk to save the integrity of their home.

The novel details events at the very end of the Shannara chronology, meaning that although Brooks will continue to write and publish Shannara stories, none of them will take place after the events in this particular book.

The Last Druid is the final book in Terry Brooks' tetralogy The Fall of Shannara.

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