Reviews for Antrax (Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Series #2)

The average rating for Antrax (Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Series #2) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-03-19 00:00:00 Kit Ping Ling Even better than I remembered!! This part starts off where Ilse Witch ended. The Druid Walker, the seer Ryer Ord Star and the elven prince Ahren Ellessedil are captured in Antrax's Den, Castledown. Antrax is an artificial intelligence computer program that "learned" to feed on magic users for energy in the past 2000 years. The heroes find out some grueling details about Antrax, I wont spoil them, but they got me gasping. On the outside, Tamis the elf and Quentin Leah are fleeing from a wronk, a very specific one (again, I wont spoil). A wronk is a fusion of a human and a machine, another weird kink of Antrax. Close by, the Ilse Witch is looking for the Druid Walker, to destroy him, and she's riddled with the boy Bek Rowe and what his purpose is. Bek is lucky to be protected by shapeshifter-human Truls Rohk, but he has a tragic backstory and it takes a while for them to trust each other completely. The Ilse Witch also stole the gang's airship, and the rovers are working hard to get it back. The suspense is very well done, and the description of Castledown, it's "monsters" and Antrax is very lively. I felt myself down there with out heroes. Couldn't stop reading, even though I read these books three years ago. This has now become one of my favourites from Terry Brooks!

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-18 00:00:00 Sara Friedman 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.