Jarka Ruus
- Published
- 26 August 2003
- Pages
- 422
- ISBN-13
- 9781439507902
- Type
- novel
About this book
Jarka Ruus is a novel by Terry Brooks, published in 2003 at 422 pages. It opens the High Druid of Shannara series and is followed here by Tanequil. The series ran to completion in 2005 across 3 books.
Key facts about Jarka Ruus
Jarka Ruus is a novel by Terry Brooks. Readers have had it since 26 August 2003. It runs to 422 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Jarka Ruus. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781439507902 to find the main one.
Jarka Ruus is book 1 of 3 in the High Druid of Shannara series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Straken is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 6 September 2005.
Additionally, Terry Brooks writes The Original Shannara Trilogy, The Magic Kingdom of Landover and The Heritage of Shannara, plus 9 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy, fantasy and urban fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Brona is the latest published Terry Brooks book on file, from 25 August 2026.
About Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks is one of modern fantasy's most commercially important authors, best known for The Sword of Shannara (1977), which became the first work of fantasy fiction to appear on the New York Times bestseller list and proved, alongside Tolkien's continuing popularity, that there was a mass commercial audience for epic fantasy. See every Terry Brooks book in order.
Its place in High Druid of Shannara
Jarka Ruus is book 1 in the High Druid of Shannara series. It is followed by Tanequil. See the full High Druid of Shannara reading order.
Terry Brooks's High Druid of Shannara trilogy picks up two decades after the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, with Grianne Ohmsford -- the former Ilse Witch -- now serving as Ard Rhys, head of the restored Druid order, still shadowed by suspicion over her past. Jarka Ruus opens as rival Druids led by Shadea a'Ru use forbidden magic to banish Grianne into the Forbidding, a demon-infested alternate realm, forcing her great-nephew Pen Ohmsford -- son of Bek Ohmsford and Rue Meridian, gifted with an uncanny ability to…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781439507902