It’s been awhile since Terry Brooks graced us with a Landover novel.  I enjoyed this novel a lot.  A couple of places it turned out to be predictable but it didn’t ruin the story at all.  I did like it he left it open for more to be written.

  Princess Mistaya, daughter of Ben Holiday, King of Landover is not your typical fifteen year old girl.  Yes she has controlling parents who sent her off to boarding school.  She is passionate about her causes.  And she can summon the image of a dragon to stop the school bully from picking on her.  She is a spirit of three worlds, her fathers, Landover and Fairy.  Able to walk freely between her fathers land and Landover through the mists of Fairy.  After getting kicked out of the boarding school for girls she heads for home, only to be lectured by her father. 

  When she discovers her fathers plans for her she has had enough and runs away to the safety of the Lake Country and her grandfathers protection.  Mistaya’s grandfather decides not to get between his granddaughter and her parents and tells Mistaya she must leave the Lake Country and go home.  With the help of a strange cat she runs away again and heads for the one place no one will think to look for her.

  Not to give too much away, of course it’s a story of hardship and growth.  If you’ve never read any of the Landover books I highly recommend them all.  I think there are six now.  It’s a great change from the Shannara series, which he is writing a new one of now.