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Summary: Don't listen to reviews (well just mine)
Review: I know this book gets shot down by a lot of people. Why? Well I believe it's because the author tries to infuse some new blood into the series by adding new characters and, heaven forbid, barely mentioning the series stars. The book is well written, like all of Goodkind's books, and the new characters are interesting and well integrated into the ongoing story. Actually, I was getting kind of tired of reading about Kahlan and Richards latest encounter with impending doom. As with all his previous books, the story can be read as a stand alone edition which is quite a plus in the fantasy genre (hmmm...Jordan). The only flaw, albeit a minor one, I found with this book was that the ending felt anticlimatic and abreviated. Hey, there a lot worse ways of spending your time (Crossroads of Twilight).
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Summary: A good stand-alone view of the world of the SoT series
Review: This novel is a good novel that pulls you into the character, but if you can't stand reading through violent action then you may have problems with some sections of this book dealing with one of the two new characters introduced in this book - Oba who is a son of Darken Rahl who is almost as evil and power hungry as his father. If you expect Richard to play a significant part in this book then you will be sorely disappointed. The last 50 pages are the only place that Richard appears. This book has a unique perspective in that the characters do seem real - some reviewers have mentioned that the portrayal of the other new character, Jennsen - Richard's sister seems childish and weak - I don't agree with this assessment - I have known this kind of person in the real world - she was sheltered in her early life so is really very naive. I truly enjoyed the book as a stand alone view of the world that Goodkind has created, but I do realize that this book may not fulfil everyone's expectations.
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Summary: This book made me quit reading the series
Review: The subject line says it. This book had nothing to do with the main characters. I am sick of these authors thinking they can milk us for every penny because we are hooked on their series! We want to see an ending, darn it, not a whole bunch of new characters. I continued to read these books because I loved reading about Richard and Khalan - at first. Now, however, everything has just become too annoying. This book was the last straw - I'm not wasting my money on this drivel any longer.
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Summary: Plodding along to an unimportant conclusion
Review: While not utterly terrible, I found this book to be greatly inferior in quality to the early books of the series. It simply didn't grab my attention. Wizard's First Rule, Stone of Tears and Temple of the Winds are full of twists and turns, and you feel like you've ridden a roller coaster as you watch characters you actually care about go through suspenseful, and sometimes disturbing events.This book fell far short of that mark. The main character simply wasn't very interesting, and the entire plot was plodding and quite predictable. It also did not advance the overall plot line of the series in any way. So I'd recommend skipping this book. I will probably read the next one to see if the series picks up again, but this book (and book 5, Soul of the Fire) certainly show that the series has dropped several notches. The endless Ayn Rand philosophy is becoming very tiresome as well. Hopefully Goodkind will surprise me and recapture some of his earlier magic in book 8.
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Summary: the pillars of creation as a stand alone book
Review: Ok I did the ultmait bad doing in a set of books like these. i read this book first and then read the rest. and while I know some extra info that I shouldn't have known when picking up the first book, but that made the whole book better than if i Had read them in order, I wouldn't know which to recomend first, they really do want to be stand alone books and you would find yourself wishing that you could have forgoten what ever you read first when you pick up what ever you read second. the only issue that i have with this book and most of the terry good kind books, is the abrupt endings. he takes intracket detail and winding and webing in order to get you reading the book like crazy, and conclueds and resolves very quckly, like runing into a brick wall at 120 mph. so I am not sure what to really recomened to you, I will say to all the soward of truth fans, this is not a sword of truth book, it is a spin off, and this is not about the people in the books that you have come to love.
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Summary: Not bad, but c'mon!
Review: I've read all of the Sword of Truth Novels to date. (Debt of Bones is on order) I have loved all of them and been wrapped up in them to the point of not sleeping for 3 days to finish one. BUT..... Now, Pillars of Creations is a good story, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't flow like the rest of the stories. It just doesn't have.... "it." The story is a good one and it shows true in the spirit of the previous novels, running the full race, but it's just missing on one or two cylinders. Not enough to come in first as the rest did. I have the paperback and when I compared to the others, the print is almost twice as big as if the publisher was making it bigger to compare with the others in the series. I honestly think that there was something missing in the book that should have been there. Richard and Kahlan are the main characters yes, and Jennsen is a full character in her own right. But the entire book is told only from her point of veiw. I think that it was cut and reput together so that there may be another novel coming, matching what Richard, Kahlan and Kara were doing as Jen did what she did. My thinking is that there should have been more to it than there was. For example: What was it that Kara touched? Where were they? What were they doing as they traveled north to the New world? Interesting, no?
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Summary: We get it already!
Review: First, let me say that this was a decent book ... and decent is about all I can say for it. This is not so much that it wasn't a good story, but more of a ... Ok, we get the whole capitalist system versus socialist system argument you are making! We get it ... really we do. The problem is that BOTH of the main bad guys were essentially socialists, so it almost seems like Terry killed off Darken Rahl, a socialist, just to put in another socialist bad buy. This is causing a bit of redundancy in the overall story, a bit of boredom with the over-arching storyline. While Terry certain weaves a great story, I'm finding myself growing bored with the series itself. Unless something DRASTICALLY changes with Naked Empire, that will probably be the last book of this series I read.
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Summary: Goodkind is no Jordan (thank god)
Review: After reading this book and Faith of the Fallen in about a week I have come to the colclusion that unlike Jordan, Goodkind can go to this trough any time he wishes. This is because, unlike Jordan, Goodkind has each of his books be an almost stand alone novel. Not to say that it would be easy to read without the other but the series tells a different story with each book. Unlike Jordan who simply covers one conflict with 10 books, Goodkind has a few books that represent many different adventures. My suggestion is that this is the series that is the Anti-Jordan. There is an all encompassing conflict but it is great that there are stand alone adventures. A great read.
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Summary: Not like the rest of the series
Review: Although I thought the story in this book was very good I thought that the deviation of using Richard and Kahlan as main characters really ruined the story for me. Since the rest of the books in the Sword of Truth series have Richard and Kahlan as the focus, not focusing on them in this book really left me with the sensation that the book was really missing something. Overall I was pretty disappointed with the book. I hope that Goodkind returns to Richard and Kahlan's story in the next book.
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Summary: Good, but off the beaten track
Review: When I read Terry Goodkind's seventh book in the Sword of Truth series, it seemed to me that I wasn't quite sure what was occuring in the story. As I was reading through the first seventy pages, I hardly got any information about the main characters from the previous books. It is instead revolving around a woman who comes out of the blue, apparently a hunted person. However, there was a mention of her in the 4th book The Temple of the Winds (if you have read the books). I do think however the it was very well written and tied in to the rest of the books at the end. I also liked the change of perspective in the story.
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