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Summary: Disappointing ending to a great series
Review: The other four books of this series were phenomenal, but this seriously lacked the profesionalism that the others were written with.
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Summary: The Audio Version brings the Characters to Life!
Review: I started the Audio Books due to the amount of traveling I do. Terry Goodkind is indeed a talented author. The Audio Version brings true light to each character with distint personalities so that you become truly invovled in each series that he has written. The "Truth Series" has been great. You will cheer Richard Kahl and the Mother Confessor and will look forward to the next adventure that Terry Goodkind has in mind for the two. I now look forward to the next book. Hopefully it is in progress.
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Summary: AWESOME SERIES!!!!
Review: Terry Goodkind can do fantasy like no one else. His books are so amazing you just can't help but wonder how he does it. And to people who say he copied Jordan; he didn't. He writes so much better. Soul of the Fire will blow The Path of Crap...er I mean daggers, out of the water.
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Summary: GOODKIND RULES
Review: Terry Goodkinds books are awesome. The best part about them is that the characters are so real. They act like real people (They aren't perfect). Another excellent aspect of these books is that the "Wizard's Rules" are true. All of them apply to real life. Also, unlike Robert Jordan, each book in this series has a point other than making money and has a good story. Robert Jordan has a good world and OK characters, but each book takes the characters only a small step. For instance, Rand never even grew into a reasonably mature person until the fifth book or so, and then he just progressivly grew into a very stale and predictable charachter. This is probably because Robert Jordan ran out of ideas for him. Richard on the other hand makes huge progress in each book and is a "real" character. Other great series are Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams (Otherland is good also), A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin) and of course, The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien). However, Goodkind is at least as good as any of these series with the possible exception of Tolkien (Tolkien is also the most original writer I have read...he invented fantasy esentially), but I have read Tolkien 16 times, so I currently enjoy Goodkind more:) GOODKIND RULES!!!
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Summary: The best books written since Tolken
Review: I suggest this book to any that like fantasy. Terry Goodkind is one of the best authors to have ever written for the Genre.
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Summary: Great detail and very fun to read.
Review: Mr. Goodkind's Sword of Truth series is by far one of the best series I have read. It is highly detailed and creates pictures in your mind so vivid that you see them when you sleep. It is good to have an author that puts the reader into the story. I hope that this book will be as good as the others have been. Anyone who has not read these needs to.
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Summary: Still waiting, and filling the Gap
Review: I've been a lurker for awhile here--still waiting for Terry's newest! I just finished a book that was recommended here a few week's back--the first book in Katya Reimann's Chronicles of Tielmark, Wind from a Foriegn Sky. I picked it up because it turns out Terry really did recommend it. It's out in paper and it's a good quick read if, like me, your SOF hasn't arrived yet. The characters are great and I loved the story. If you're in the mood for another good fantasy--I'd definitely recommend Ms. Reimann's book.
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Summary: Unlike most of you, I've actually READ this book
Review: Soul of the Fire is a good read. It's not as good as Wizard's First Rule or Stone of Tears; it's better than Temple of the Winds and Blood of the Fold [but then, anything would be.] It has some interesting surprises. There is way too much "catch up" material and references to things that happened in the earlier books. Bill and Hillary Clinton probably will be very upset to see themselves mocked out in a fantasy novel. I think Goodkind is running out of steam with these characters, but not necessarily the world. If he would concentrate on some of the other aspects of the story, and get off of Richard and Kahlan for a while, it would be worth it. Kahlan is becoming even more jealous and whiney, and Richard is growing more and more cardboard by the day. [How many woman can one man marry, for cripe's sake?] I say this as a fan who wants to see the series continue, but not like this. And even after 508 pages I STILL have no idea what SOUL OF THE FIRE means.
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Summary: Settle in for a great fantasy
Review: I originally went to the bookstore looking for a series, because single books leave you hanging. I saw Goodkind's and decided to try. It was the best decision that I made. Goodkind truly develops the characters in this series. You get to know them so intimately that you feel they are family. The stories are great and I love how each book can be an individual book or leads you from one story to the next. I can't wait to get my hands on the next one.
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Summary: Goodkind is the master of fantasy
Review: Jordan fans eat your heart out because Terry Goodkind can write fantasy the way it was meant to be written. Each book has its own resolution, is able to keep the reader interested, has lots of action, is fast paced, and doesn't have annoying sub-plots. There is not tons of characters so that you end-up losing track of whose who in the end. The female characters don't threaten to box your ears every five pages. And best of all the bad guys are truly evil so that you want the heroes to win even more. Terry Goodkind writes fantasy for mature readers so if you can't take it don't read it and shut-up. Goodkind is the best. I hope he continues this series for years to come.
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