The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks; 2008; 402 pages; Del Rey, New York, NY; 978-0-345-48414-7; 7/18/09-7/20/09

A tale of good and evil, love and hate, friendship and family, The Gypsy Morph has about everything you would ever want in a fantasy adventure.  There are humans and demons and humans becoming demons, creatures of pure evil, elves and mutants.

The biggest thing is how important friends and family are.  At several points in the story one of the good guys goes to battle a demon alone, and is losing until friends and family show up and  together they are able to conquer the evil.

Hawk and his family of Ghosts continue their quest for utopia, shangri la, paradise.  Along the way they battle monstrous evil, evil monsters, the terrain and the weather.  Throughout they all lean on each other in one way or another, sometimes literally leaning on each other.  Finally they arrive and Hawk puts up a curtain of magic to protect them from another apocalypse unleashed by a madman trapped, alone in a Norad bunker, for five years.  Different groups co-exist and even work together to accomplish their mission of arriving in what is now Shannara (I think).  I need to figure out what the next book to read chronologically is.  This was a pleasant return to a land that I had left several decades ago.  RRR