The Scions of Shannara

I remember loving this book years ago, and it is still a fun read. I loved the character Quickening, and ran into a bit of trouble with her earlier this year. I wrote about 40,000 words into a piece I was working on, and realized that a main character in it was a lot like Quickening in this book. I haven't scrapped the idea entirely, but she will need a major reworking, and thus the book will pretty much have to be restarted. sigh