It's taken me a few days to get through this, and it's pretty much unobjectionable. That's the first word I can think of to describe it. I mean, it's a Shannara book, you know what you're getting. Competent worldbuilding, a simple storyline, and quite a bit of waffle - these books always feel a couple of hundred pages longer than they need to be. That being said, I still enjoyed it. A decent enough popcorn read, and I appreciate the fact that although war is a central concern, there's none of this wallowing in grimdark that too much fantasy is rather too obsessed with these days. There's a very clear line, here, between good and evil, and all the good guys are undoubtedly good and trying their best and respectful of others. I do wish, though, that the tendency to have every main character related to someone else in the wider series would just stop. I find it both mildly irritating and extremely repetitive, so not unobjectionable at all I suppose, but still. Could be worse.