Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Loved it and hated it.

I have to say this first.The first book of this set, The Sword of Shannara is a blatant rip off of LOTR. I won't go into detail, but because it follows the storyline of LOTR so closely there were virtually no surprises in the story. It is so obvious that at every turn I could say "What would Tolkien do in this instance" and voila guess what happens.Now that that's taken care of, the second two books are actually pretty decent. I like the world that Brooks created, and the characters are much more interesting than the LOTR clones from the first book.After reading the first book I wouldn't have chosen to read any further Brooks material. Since I had all three in this edition, I decided to tough it out and I was pleasantly surprised.