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Summary: george
Review: i have read and listend to soul of the fire i have both hard copy and unaadbriged audio cassettes. i personially found that by listining i've gotten a better understanding of the book. i lkie the fact that mr goodkind constantly adds new characters it makes the reading more intresting and intriguing. the book's are not just about richard and kahlan even though there the main characters. it's about a whole world of different people and i've enjoyied the change. i look foreward with eagerness to the 6th book in the series. i am confidant it will be as good as all the rest
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Summary: Ouch. What the hell happened?
Review: Haven anxiously awaited the fifth book in this series, I got this book just last week, and, after devouring it in about a day, I just have one question I wanna ask.What the HELL happened? This book was bad. Realllllyy bad. I'll go over the salient points. 1. Where the heck are all the characters we actually care about? Berdine, Scarlet, Chase, Rachel, Verna, Warren, Nathan, Gratch, and any I've missed, all these guys are missing, some with plot points left open. 2. Heck, to be even more precise, the main characters, Richard and Kahlan, and the semi-major characters, Cara, Zedd and Ann, are barely in this book, and when they are, they're either a) pointless or b) out of character. Kahlan's turned into a whiny little girl in this one, and Richard has apparently forgotten the fact that he's the hero of the story. Ya don't just 'give up' 'cause some backwater country voted not to join you! 3. Instead, we get what almost seems to be a Tom Clancy-esc 'political thriller'. It almost seems that Goodkind was writing a different book, and someone told him to force it into the SoT series. With this, we get pointless, pointless characters (Fitct, Beata) and Goodkind's obvious political views. And the bit with the chimes seemed pointless and the solution came outta left field. Which I find funny, 'cause the back blurb to the book was about the chimes. Note to Terry-NO ONE CARES IN A FANTASY NOVEL! I'll admit, there was one saving grace: Dalton. I must admit, I liked him, and his trump card at the end when he'd realized he'd lost was totally unexpected. He's the only reason this book didn't get one star. Hopefully, Goodkind will remember what 'fantasy' is in time for the inevitable 6th book. And, hopefully, we won't have to wait as long to get it.
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Summary: Expected better
Review: Let me say this is one great series and T Goodkind is a terrific writer,but this episode dragged too much on side characters for me. I want Richard and Kahlan to dominate book and they didn't. Also i found dialog between Richard and Kahlan a little sophmoric at times. Jeez he is the Seeker of Truth so why ever doubt the guy. It was a nice read, but I expected a little more action . Also Zedd should be around more, hes so cool and funny. Hope next ones a bit better.
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Summary: Definitely One of Goodkind's Best
Review: A quick and excellent read. Goodkind did a great job bringing the corrupt Anderith culture to life and the story moves along well.
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Summary: Hero
Review: For personal interest, I seek more fun with main caracter 'Richard' but this book has some points that show the sideviews. Richard became the emperor of the Midland and everyone thinks he is a hero of the world. However, in this book we see how the world treats him and who is a true friend to him. So I guess Mr. Terry Goodkind wrote this unexpected scenes for his own purpose. Even though I miss Richard, Kalhan, Zedd, and etc for their heroic actions.
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Summary: Doesn't stand on it's own.
Review: Soul of the Fire the 5'th in a great series is a bit of a let down. The chracters have become too emotional. Richard would work better as a darker character with a bit more of a sence of humor instead, we get him crying all the time. Of course we don't put up with much of this because the main characters are hadly in the book. Instead we get chapter after boring chapter on new lifeless , dull characters who end up being irrelevent. I felt all most cheated by this book. It doesn't answer any of the questions we have from the last book and takes us into all these new people we'll never see again. It's only worth reading in hopes that the next one will be better and since the last one was so well done.
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Summary: too much talk and not enough action
Review: I have really enjoyed Goodkind's books until now. The first 4 were exciting, had good character development, and plot. In the Soul of the Fire I felt like I was reading a completely different author. The plot seemed shallow and the characters were not the same people we have gotten to know and love or hate. Kahlen was constantly doubting Richard's feelings and ideas, and then they would talk about it for about half a chapter, then they would finally go and do something. By that time -after the talking about it and reasoning what they would do was not very exciting. We did not see the strength that we saw in Kahlen the first 4 books, nor did we see the same sweet and brave Richard. Cara, the mordsith, was the best character in this book. She was developed very well. I certainly don't think I could produce a book as well as Terry Goodkind, but compared to his last few books it was kind of a let down.
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Summary: forgetable
Review: the pages not spent re-hashing the previous books were used to repeat actions done by the characters in them
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Summary: Enthralled by this series, can't wait for the next volume.
Review: I have been hearing from many sources that this volume in the Sword of Truth series was difficult to get into. I did not have that problem. I agree that this book seems to stand out from the other 4 in the series so far, but to me it stands out for a different reason. Terry Goodkind is a skilled author when it comes to evoking emotions from the readers. Soul of the Fire makes the reader feel something as they read it. Well I can't speak for everyone but it made me feel something. It has added to the series immensely because of how it built up the current crisis created by the villians. Soul of the Fire creates a great hatred for the villians and I'm looking forward to the next volume, Faith of the Fallen, to see how things turn out.
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Summary: The best..........
Review: This book is the best book I have ever read!
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