For long I was tempted to try reading the Shannara series because I enjoyed Brooks' Landover-series (apart from the entire character and concept of the female main character Willow, which still makes me retch). My library does not seem to have the books in English, though, and now I wouldn't want to read them in Germany anymore. Are they any good?

They do have a point with those details, very often these things do go together. I wish more published writers had consulted it. Looking at you, David Eddings.