I am a huge fan of Terry Brooks and the story line for Druid of Shannarra is wonderful. I would give the book 5 stars. Unfortunately, the Kindle edition is a terrible version. It is full of errors; punctuation, spelling, grammatical. It was very, very distracting.

Positives: Some good characterization, interesting locals and monsters, neat uses of magic, a few cool fights, fairly good climax and a decent amount of closure. Good secondary characters as well. Not a bad novel in all.

Negatives: Plotting ain't up to 'par'. Very repetitive in the following ways: Morgan Leah grappling with his misgivings; Pe Ell imagining his triumphant moment in identical ways; Walker Boh lamenting over his lost/not lost magic(it's really impossible to tell which). The events of the story are mostly plotted alright, but the character struggles of the story are thrown together poorly, especially Walker. The whole search in Eldwist drags on seemingly without any organization, and the beginning of the story, jumping between Par, Coll, Walker and Pe Ell is just odd. The references to Par and Coll's stories really do nothing to advance this one.
The main problem in this book is organization. The magic elements feel forced, and the rise and fall of character emotions is startlingly bumpy. This book could have used a lot more trimming and rearranging, especially with the inner feelings of the characters. Too much of it repeats for the pace to survive.

Druid takes off directly where the last one leaves off, only this book focuses mainly on Walker and his quest. Not being a fan of the Druids, or how, in particular, Allanon manipulated his ancestors in the first trilogy's quest, Walker has been reluctant, so far, to take up his charge. But, enticed by information left to him by the long-lived Cogline, Walker had gone in search of the Black Elfstone, which is needed to restore Paranor, at the end of Scions...only to find himself poisoned by a creature called the Asphinx, left in the place the Grimpond told Walker the Elfstone would be. He is slowly turning to stone, and Cogline is unable to cure him. Walker is bedridden and Cogline at a loss for what to do when Rimmer Dal, head of the Seekers, shows up, ostensibly killing Cogline and burning down Walker's home. All seems lost until the daughter of the King of the Silver River, named Quickening, discovers him, buried in the ashes of his destroyed home. She has already picked up Morgan Leah and the unsettling assassin Pe Ell, and after healing Walker, explains to him that they must travel to the far, far north, outside of the known world, to a city now ruled by The Stone King, an ancestor just like the King of The Silver River. The Stone King has gone mad, hoping to turn the entire world to stone. He created a child, much like Quickening, but his child is a giant monster-worm who is slowly infecting the world with stone. The Stone King ventured to the Four Lands and stole the Black Elfstone to protect himself from his own child, who had grown so strong he was threatening his own father. The four must travel to his land and steal back the Elfstone so that Walker can restore Paranor.
Other than a small chunk of the book when the quad is wandering around Eldwist, the Stone King's northern city, which I found to get a bit boring, I think this might be my favorite book of the series. The four characters have an interesting dynamic working, plus the landscape is very creative. It was also interesting to have an "enemy" who really isn't out to destroy, necessarily, our protagonists; in fact, for the most part, he doesn't even notice they're in his kingdom. Yet the four are still in constant mortal danger. Plus this is the first book where Brooks' hint to the connection to the past becomes unavoidably obvious. Definitely a successful second in a series!

I have read about a dozen books for the Kindle - all purchased from Amazon. This is by far, the worst e-book I have read. The scan used to create the books is fully of typos - often more than one per "page", including errors with main character names and letter combinations that are not even words. I found the problems very disturbing and annoying. E-books are cheaper for a reason - they should not lack the basic proof-reading that you would expect from a 7th grader.

I'm glad I'm reading the Heritage series long after all the books are completed so I don't have to wait for the next two or three years for the next one in the series to be completed.

This book is highly entertaining although a little slow in places but Terry Brooks does a great job moving the story along. This book takes Walker Boh, Quickening, Pel El, Homer Dees and the latest edition of the Leah family, Morgan on a quest to retrieve the black elfstone from the stone king Uhl Belk. (excuse some of the spelling)

This book is not nearly as fast paced as some of his other books (SofS series and First King of Shannara) but it is a lot more detailed and every bit as entertaining. The characater development is great. He creates a wide variet of interesting characters and the plot and action is developed a good speed. There is even a little bit of romance here. It also has an interesting ending that ties all the questions together from the first book.

I took forward to reading the third book, Elf Queen of Shannara.

Overall not my favorite Shannara book but a great book nontheless worthy of a five star rating.