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The Tangle Box (Landover Series)

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As simple as this world of Landover is and the small number of characters involved in Landover, Terry Brooks somehow finds a way to make yet another interesting story to the Landover series. The voice acting is done by Dick Hill who had done all the Landover audio books up to this point and has done yet another good job, and because Dick does all the Landover books it brings a welcomed sense of familiarity.

The story brings another character from Earth that was exiled from Landover back into the story: This time its Horris Kew who is a conjuror with a similar ability of Questor Thews to get into trouble with his magic, but in the case of Horris Kew he is very selfish and his mistakes usually become evil mistakes, as happens in this story when he opens the Tangle Box. Somehow he had possession of the Tangle Box on Earth and when fleeing his latest snafu and the Tangle Box talks to Horris Kew and his bird companion Biggar and gets them to let whoever is in the Tangle Box out.

The creature imprisoned in the box is a fairy mist creature called the Gorse, and he wants revenge of the fairy world for imprisoning him in the box, but to do that he must get rid of the powers of Landover: Ben Holiday, Strabo the dragon and Nightshade the witch, which he does with Horris Kew's help by placing them into the Tangle Box where they lose their memory and are lost in a labyrinth.

On another quest is Willow who is to have he baby, and for her child since she is to be born of Landover, the Fairy Ream, and of Earth must collect earth from all three worlds and root herself in these solids to give birth. As expected the two quests of hers and Ben Holiday become entwined.

This was a very enjoyable Landover book, one of my favorites. If you like Landover you should have no problem liking this audio production of The Tangle Box.

Terry Brooks' THE TANGLE BOX receives veteran narrator Dick Hill's excellent style and decades of experience as it tells of Ben Holiday, a former Chicago lawyer now king of the Magic Kingdom of Landover. Ben finds himself imprisoned within the Tangle Box, lost in its world, when conjurer Horris gets the upper hand and works evil - and a mysterious woman who has vanished from the elven kingdom is the only one who can rescue him in this fantasy thriller come alive in audio.