Angel Fire East

Word and Void, Book 3

De: Terry Brooks

Narrado por: George K. Wilson

As a Knight of the Word, John Ross has struggled against the dark forces of the Void and his minions for twenty-five years. The grim future he dreams each night—a world reduced to blood and ashes—will come true, unless he can stop them now, in the present.

The birth of a gypsy morph, a rare and dangerous creature that could be an invaluable weapon in his fight against the Void, brings John Ross and Nest Freemark together again. Twice before, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the lives of Ross and Nest have intersected. Together, they have prevailed. But now they will face an ancient evil beyond anything they have ever encountered, a demon of ruthless intelligence and feral cunning. As a firestorm of evil erupts, threatening to consume lives and shatter dreams, they have but a single chance to solve the mystery of the Gypsy morph—and their own profound connection.

©1999 Terry Brooks (P)2000 Recorded Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

“That is Brooks’ way of casting spells—transporting his readers into plausible realms where sorcery is alive, whether those places are in other ages or right in the middle of our own. As a result, he’s reaped more than a few magical moments …”—Seattle Times

Great back story

The story and performance were great; however, the engineering was definitely substandard. I was frequently adjusting the volume to hear some parts and to save my hearing in others.

awesome

Love the story and the narrator. makes long car rides go by much much faster

Good but broken

every few chapters the audio will glitch out, but still a good conclusion to the Word and Void series

I love this narrator. the books are amazing.

I love this narrator. The books are amazing as they usually are. I'll be looking for his narration again.

Excellent

Loved this series Terry Brooks is an awesome author I’ve read his books since I was in junior high and I’ll continue reading.

the word is true

The never ending store of the battle between good and evil. a true classic.

Solid Read!

Brooks has an excellent take on urban fantasy with relatable characters and a nasty villain.

The quality of the recording is crap.

It was like listing to a record with scratches in it. But loved the story and the narrator.

Good story but kind of sad

It seems that even by the end of this book we haven’t completely reached the Apocalypse we know must be coming to transform the world pretty much as we know it into the world revealed in the Shannara novels. But this is certainly not because the demons haven’t been trying.

In the first book of this subseries, John Ross, Knight of the Word, had to save Nest Freemark from the clutches of her demon father. In the next book, Nest had to save John from a demon posing as a most altruistic girlfriend. Now they have to sort of save each other.

The Lady who assigns Knights of the Word to their tasks has given him one final task, and then she promises that he will be released from his service to the Word. He is to find and capture a creature called a Gypsy Morph, something that assembles itself from wild magic and frequently changes shape until it decides what it wants to be. They have the possibility of becoming great forces for good or great forces for evil. Their changes draw demons like flies, hoping to recruit them to work for the Void.

John Ross successfully captures the Morph and weathers its changes guarding it from the demons until it begins to change less frequently and settles for a while as a small boy. It then suddenly calls out Nest’s name three times, leading John to hope she can maybe figure out what it wants to finally become. So he and the Morph travel to Nest’s hometown of Hopewell.

The demons are already ganging up before they get there.

It’s just before Christmas, and Nest has plenty of other problems without John Ross and Gypsy Morphs and demons. Bennett Scott, the little girl Nest saved from being driven off a cliff by the disconcerting creatures she calls Feeders years ago, has just returned to town with her own little girl after what has obviously been a hard life. She asks if she can stay with Nest, and Nest, being a nice person, agrees, just before one of the demons tips her off that John Ross will be coming.

If you are a fan of villains, the demons in this book are the best part. The Void has been ramping up its game with the demons ever since the first book. If you thought Nest’s father was bad, it turns out he was small potatoes next to the team that shows up this time. There are four of them. Two are just monsters, there to inflict physical damage. But the other two are seriously scary.

Take the assistant demon, for example. She calls herself Penny Dreadful and is a masterful dope dealer. Bennett Scott’s life has left her with a drug habit she just can’t seem to kick, and though she has high hopes that returning to tiny Hopewell and a safe place with Nest will help her finally get rid of it, the first time she goes outside by herself, Penny gets her hooks into her, and Bennett is pretty much lost from then, and she knows it.

And then there’s the project’s Head Demon. He calls himself Findo Gask and claims to be over eight hundred years old. He threatens all kinds of mayhem (he does, after all, work for the Void), and keeps commanding Nest to “give me what I want.” Of course, Nest and John don’t know what he wants, although they have their suspicions.

Eventually, Gask and Penny kidnap the children – the Morph and Bennetts’s little girl. So they have what they want, but they don’t know it. Ross and Nest go to the rickety house where they are staying and with the help of the Sylvan, Pick, and his latest owl friend, try to save them.

The end is sort of sad, although not everything is a total loss. The Morph decides on his final form. And the dreadful Penny Dreadful has been destroyed with the house and the two monsters. But a lot has been lost in this adventure, and I’m sure Nest is glad this part of her life is over.

Such a great trilogy!

it just keeps you guessing. What should be done. How to do it. you have such a connection with the characters. I want another one.