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My passion is ...

My Saviour, My Wife, My Kids (and Star Wars)

I know too much about ...

Star Wars

My parents always told me ...

Get your retaliation in first, or, "I'm going to pull your arm off and beat you with the soggy end", strange things for pacifists to say

My childhood ambition ...

To do something significant

My favorite memory ...

My eldest calling me Dad for the first time

Why I write ...

To stop all the words exploding out of me

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I read fantasy, I watch crime shows (and sci-fi when I can get it) and a I'm a music-a-phobe so not much on that side of things

My first job ...

Selling clothes to posh people at Uni or being a Civil Servant on leaving

My best moment ...

Hhhmmm, Getting married or birth of my kids, which to say?

My inspiration ...

My wife - a hard life well lived, and she's still up for more

Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Book reviews: Isle Witch, by Terry Brooks

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This is a good book. There, I've said it. It's good, but its not mind-numbingly, toe-curlingly brilliant. Why, you ask, has a reviewer and - I must confess here - fan, stated that the book is good but not great at this juncture of a review? This is a book at the beginning of not only a trilogy, but the beginning of a new era in the history of the lands of Shannara, therefore it must ensure the link between what has come before and what will be is strong and serve as the future story's foundation. It must also serve as the jumping-off point for all those people who decide to join the growin...

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