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Armageddon's Children


Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family’s slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization’s downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.

Across the country, Angel Perez, herself a survivor of the malevolent, death-dealing forces combing the land, has also been chosen for an uncanny mission in the name of her ruined world’s salvation. From the devastated streets of Los Angeles, she will journey to find a place–and a people–shrouded in mystery, celebrated in legend, and vital to the cause of humankind . . . even as a relentless foe follows close behind, bent on her extermination. While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting odds–and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey.

In time, all their paths will cross. Their common purpose will draw them together. Their courage and convictions will be tested and their fates will be decided, as their singular crusade begins: to take back, or lose forever, the only world they have.

In Armageddon’s Children, Brooks brings his gifts as a myth maker to the timeless theme of the unending, essential conflict between darkness and light–and carries his unique imaginative vision to a stunning new level. Prepare for a breathtaking tour de force. To those who are new to Terry Brooks, welcome. And to those who have read him for many years: prepare for a dramatic surprise.


Brooks should stick with science fiction because, though I’ve enjoyed his elf-centric Shannara stories, I really liked this book. There is a bit of the elves, but the majority of the story deals with our world. Or what’s left of it. It’s changing, and soon won’t be our world at all, but the story of that change in this post-apocalyptic scenario is riveting.

The characters are fully rounded. Logan and Angel, as they journey through the world, knowing that they have a role to play though they’re not sure what that is; but especially the “family” of kids who will carry the fate of the world on their young shoulders. And that’s coming from someone who doesn’t care all that much for “young adult” books, much less those where the major characters are kids. It’s not that I never do, but it’s few and far between. This book is definitely an exception.

It may be awhile, but I’m so looking forward to the next book in the series.







Links are to more information regarding each book or author, not to the review.


1. A Wicked War
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
4. Thera: Pompeii of the Ancient Aegean
5. Unbury Carol
6. The Institute
7. With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
8. Elevation
9. The Remaking
10. The Great Lakes Water Wars
11. The Heresy of Dr Dee (John Dee Papers #2)
12. The Black Death
13. A Chain of Thunder (Civil War: 1861-1865, Western Theater #2)
14. American's Last Wild Horses
15. Children of Time (Children of Time #1)
16. Julius Caesar
17. The Elfstones of Shannara
18. Animal Farm
19. Bloody Mary
20. The Hercules Text
21. Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me
22. The Town House
23. Wakenhyrst
24. The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog
25. Dreamland
26. The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die (Gap #5)
27. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
28. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
29. The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War: 1861-1865, Western Theater #3)
30. The Wishsong of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy #3)
31. The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
32. Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2)
33. Paladins of Shannara
34. Dark Wraith Of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy #3.5)
35. A Talent for War (Alex Benedict #1)
36. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
37. The Genesis Machine
38. The Other People
39. A House at the Bottom of a Lake
40. In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War
41. Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found
42. The Glass Hotel
43. A Thousand Acres
44. Alexander the Great
45. Imaginary Friend
46. Her Secret Son
47. Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
48. White Rose Blossoms
49. Armageddon's Children (Genesis of Shannara #1)

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