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I HATE IT.
The characters are well defined. Allanon always tells the truth but not the whole truth. He reminds me of Poker players playing Texas Hold-em. Tells you enough to get the character to do what he wants them to do but not enough information to where the character would say ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR %}+%{ING MIND?
Why do I hate this trilogy? One reason; Mr Brooks is a fantastic author. He draws you into the story until you are excited at the exploits of the characters and you start caring about what happens to them, and you watch Mr Brooks kill character after character you have invested all that mental energy and emotion into. Not only does he kill them he kills them in brutal and gruesome ways by trolls, gnomes, and demons.
At the end you have the hero and maybe one or two characters the Mr. Brooks forgot to kill, and they no longer trust Allanon so Allanon waits for the next generation of Ohmsford's to get pulled into his schemes.
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He'd better stay well away from G. R. R. Martin, then.