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Summary: Essentially a duplicate of Stone of Tears
Review: Those of you who have read Stone of Tears will think this new novel sounds vaguely familiar. In my opinion, it is a copy of Stone of Tears. First, Richard and Kahlan are together and happy, then a Sister comes along and forces Richard to come with her. Sound familiar? Then, she takes him back to the Old World while Kahlan joins up with a Midlands army and leads a battle against the Imperial Order(again, familiar?) I don't want to spoil key events and the end for those of you who wish to read it, but pay attention to how many other similarities you can find. This book was a big disappointment to me, and the only reason I gave it 3 stars was because Goodkind is a great storyteller. I am a HUGE Sword of Truth fan and have read the first four at least 9 times and Soul of the Fire at least 5 times. I eagerly await the next book and hope that it is better than this one.
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Summary: Formula, but still good.
Review: Terry Goodkind has a formula that he seems to be falling into.A. Start with Kahlen and Richard together and happy B. Seperate C. Torture Richard D. Make Kahlen fight a hopeless battle E. Reunite That said, it's still an enjoyable read. Richard's "torture" is the best one so far.
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Summary: Probably my favorite of his so far...
Review: After reading the negative reviews of this book, I'm frankly amazed. Throughout the book, I was totally captivated and interested in the storyline, as I have been with all of his novels up to date. Up til the middle of the novel or so I would have rated it as par for his series. After this point, however, I fell in love with it. The thoughts he gave on the whole socialist society, and even the connections he feels with our own government today, hit very close to home for me, and I felt took a certain amount of courage to write with how most people are nowadays. I felt the whole ending, dealing with Richard's job, the unveiling of his work, and the way everyone reacted was perfect, and quite moving. I felt the ending just added on to his character, and gave me even more insight into what type of person he really IS. To make a long story(or review) short, I have to say that this was the most moving of all his novels, and if you turn away from the series at this step, you are missing out on more than you know.
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Summary: The Best Yet
Review: This book has it all. A crowning achievement of the series. If you did nothing else but plowed through the prior 5 books just to get to "Faith of the Fallen", your time would be well spent. Terry weaves a intricate story that grips you and keeps you guessing until the end. Never before have I read something that touched me a deeply as this book. Thanks!
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Summary: Side interests
Review: The supporting cast was really the highlight of this book. Great battles and story for them. The main characters story was very tired. I think Goodkind has run into the Superman syndrome with his main character, too powerful! That and this book was like a belabored Asop's fable, moral of the story is!? thanks for letting us know where your politics lie Mr. Goodkind; maybe be a little more subtle next time.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Faith of the Fallen falls far short of expectations for this series. While it is true that since Jagang has been in the picture the story has declined somewhat, and it is also true that since he has been a character in the story there have been a number of rather unvague allusions to the glory of freedom and capitalism over tyranny and communism/socialism, Faith of the Fallen takes the propaganda a bit too far and the quality of the story suffers greatly for it. Furthermore while, as a devout agnostic, I found some pleasure in Terry Goodkind railing against the teachings of Christianity, I felt it was superfluous and the story could have done without the anti-christian sentiment that has become all too popular in american culture. The story in essence flings the main character into the evil communist country that wishes to take over the world, he then proceeds to change those around him with his divine capitalist spirit, and makes the community he lives in better. The leaders of this communist country find his meddling, and being stupid as they are evil, assign him the task of carving a gigantic statue to stand in front of their temple which is currently under construction. I won't spoil the ending for those who still wish to read on, but be rest assured, it is as much tripe as the rest of the story. I for one intend to read the next book -- I am willing to give this author another chance before discarding the series entirely, but if I were you I'd wait until this book comes out in paperback before reading it.
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Summary: Ridiculos and worthless
Review: While world saving is a respected job for heroes of fantasy novels Goodkind Richard could be called a serial world saver. O, sure there are enough worlds that should be saved periodically - Robert Jordan's for example - but each several thousand years, sot each several month. Even the Wizard first rule has some definite faults - the plot is totally predicable, the characters two-dimensional e.t.c. but still contained enough original to be worth reading if not rereading but after it the serial becomes a neverending story with the same plot and same events returns in each volume of it. And because Goodkind need something to keep his Superhero busy - he create a new crisis each new installation. But don't worry - a hero would solve it to the end of the volume except some loose end to be left for the next one. All mentioned in other reviews faults - schematic characters, repetitions, ridiculous social and historic references are just consequences. When fantasy world is well designed writer is just should follow a "natural" for his world course of events. Sometimes when author tries to follow to many of them a story would be slowed (Wheel of Time) but still events are natural and could or even should happen in that world. For Good kind's world there is no natural or logical course of events so he must invite something to fill the place and no wonder he has difficulties with it. If you just wondering about Wizard rules - ask somebody who already read these books to make a list for you and read it - it would save you from great wasting of time. If you are looking for something epic to read - try Robert Jordan or George Martin.
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Summary: I am still reading this series...
Review: Well, I love this series! I know many think that this book begins to pale, but I enjoy it. I do not necessarily look for the deep plot lines serious writing of many authors but instead look for character and story development. Goodkind has both. I always buy into the characters and can pick up the next book in the series without rereading the previous - I remember and hold on to the storyline. With many series, I may need a quick re-read to brush up on the storyline. I definitely recommend this book...
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Summary: Review from another perspective....
Review: Let me first say, albeit that I'm going against every tradition of fantasy-reading, that I read this without prior knowledge about any other books in the series. Please, before you scroll to the next review, in my defence let me say that there was no indication on my copy of the book that it belonged to a series whatsoever :) . Anyway, to the book. I thought it was amazing. Maybe its because i haven't read the first five to notice the repeated plots, but the storyline was pretty interesting, what with Kadar Kardeef's gut-churning near-death experience, Nicci's maternity spell (really cool idea) Cara's gradual change in personality and Richard's carving... that whole idea, actually the last hundred or so pages were really inspiring and uplifting. True, the "communism sucks" idea is very biased, and based on a worst-case scenario in the book, while capitalism is portrayed as the savior of man.... I couldn't help feeling that Goodkind was painting a prejudiced picture... Also, none of the main main characters died. That was weird. But in general, the frustration at the grim picture of life under the Order's rule is all let out in a relieving and fast-paced climax... Where all the subplots merge together and bring the book to a complete, if rushed, close.
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Summary: MUCH MUCH better then the previous book
Review: After soul of fire, I had just about given up on terry Goodkind. I was getting sick of his absolute useless brutality towards women. Much of which had nothing to do whatsoever with the story. This book however, had the minimal of the entire set. There was only one instace which irritated me a bit, but at least that went with the story, the story was also much better then the previous, where he didn't spend pages upon pages building up charactures just to kill them off. Im still very tired of Jagang and would like to see this series ended very soon before there is no world or cities left to save. Goodkind is also starting to get very predictable whith his books. (try to guess what woman or women will kidnap richard in the next one) that has been done praticaly to death (3 out of the 6 books)time for a new plot.
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