The Sword of Shannara

Teenage me would have given this 4 or 5 stars; adult me struggled to give this a generous 3 stars. When I was younger, the resemblance to Lord of the Rings completely passed me by; now it screamed it in my face in virtually every scene.

Leaving aside the “homage” to LotR, I read a lot of these pages diagonally. Huge swaths of this could have been edited down drastically. I wouldn't say it was bad, but it did tend to err on the side of “you can never use too many adjectives”.

One of those books to be filed under “to be read when young”.