If your sole venture into epic fantasy started and ended with Lord of the Rings, you might want to take a deeper voyage into the land of dragons, elves, ogres, and wizards. But it's also fantasy on a grand scale, written by a master of the genre, and I'm looking forward to Lord Rahl's next adventure.Ģnd (Audiobook) Review by Lance Victor Eaton:
#TERRY GOODKIND SWORD OF TRUTH DHARA SOLDIER SERIES#
This Sword of Truth series seems to me the ultimate male fantasy, surrounded as Richard always is by adoring, beautiful, dangerous women (there's a Charlie's Angels flavor to this aspect of the epic). And we finally see what has become of Kahlan, whose own memories have been taken.įortunately Richard keeps his focus as ' the Seeker' and ' the magic against magic', to uncover the true danger to the people of both Old and New Worlds, setting the scene nicely for the second in this final trilogy. We meet the engaging young Jillian, ' priestess of the bones' and her ' ravenous raven' companion, Lokey. He finds himself in an ever-tightening trap.Īlong the way, readers are re-introduced to many of the series' vast cast of characters, including Ann and Nathan, whose studies of ancient books have revealed that ' the final and deciding battle is upon us.' Nikki is involved in an exciting action sequence, defending the city of Altur-Rang from attack by Jagjang's troops, who have three wizards in their ranks. The latter's arguments, the doubts of all around him, and the exhumation of a grave, make Richard question his own mental state. He visits Witch Woman Shota - where he pays a high price for meagre information, including the word ' Chainfire' - and his grandfather Zedd. Richard sets out on quest for clues to Kahlan's situation. Soon afterwards, the action picks up with a horrific massacre, that reveals to Richard that his enemy, emperor Jagjang, has conjured an invincible ' blood beast' (a relentless creature of chaos), and set it on his trail it will find him (and those with him) whenever he invokes magic. He's obsessed with finding her, while his companions - Nikki and ' Mord-Sith' Cara - are certain that he's delusional. not only in person, but also in everyone's memories but his own. When Richard awakes, he remembers a wolf's howl and discovers that his wife, ' Mother Confessor' Kahlan, has gone missing.
Sorceress Nikki employs ' Subtractive Magic' to heal his mortal wound. It begins as the series hero, Richard Lord Rahl, the ' pebble in the pond' of prophecy, lies dying, shot by an arrow in an accidental encounter with Imperial Order soldiers. However, Chainfire (first of three that are to conclude this long-running epic) has pulled me in again, to the extent that I plan to go back and fill in the volumes I missed. Though I read the first book and a couple more along the way, I found the amount of torture at times distasteful, and have just not been as engaged by this series as by Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. This is the ninth in this prolific author's highly popular Sword of Truth series, that began with Wizard's First Rule. Chainfire: Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
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