Antrax (Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Series #2) Book

Across fathomless seas, beyond the far horizon, the voyagers aboard the Jerle Shannara face the deadliest - and darkest - challenge of their lives.

The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy takes a new direction with its second book. Whereas Ilse Witch was an epic tale of adventure, Antrax is a story of a band of lost voyagers trapped on a mysterious peninsula where countless horrors await. This is where the new world of Shannara faces what is left of the old. Magic meets science while the crew of the Jerle Shannara struggles desperately for survival.

I liked Antrax. But out of so many good novels in the Shannara series, this is simply not one of the best in my opinion. It felt quite stretched, and when I finished the last page I realised that not much had happened since the first chapter. The ending was unsatisfactory because there was no ending, and the nature and identity of the book's main antagonist was revealed way too early. But to be fair, the good elements are more numerous than the bad, and the fact that I gave this book three stars does not mean that I did not enjoy reading it. In the end, it only paves the way for an amazing conclusion to the trilogy.