Faith of the Fallen
Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.Emperor...
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Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.Emperor Jagang is rising once again in the Old World and Richard must face him, on his own turf. Richard heads into the Old World with Cara, the Mord-Sith, while his beloved Kahlan remains behind. Unwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, Kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the Midlands.Separated and fighting for their lives, Richard and Kahlan will be tested to the utmost.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780812576399 (081257639X)
ASIN: 081257639X
Publish date: August 2001
Publisher: Tor
Pages no: 785
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Epic Fantasy,
Epic,
High Fantasy,
Romance,
Adult,
Wizards
Series: Sword of Truth -9 (#6)
This was just okay. As the series is beginning to wind down, the story is becoming more formulaic. I would expect to see some of the characters cease to be pure good or pure evil by now, but so far, I've had no luck. Perhaps in the final volumes I will start to see more of this development.
One could basically throw away 300 pages of this book recalling events from the previous books. So, 3 stars for the rest of 500- pages.
Whereas "Soul of the Fire" wasn't as good as I remembered, this one was even better than I remembered, so it all evens out :)Not as many different story lines in this book. Richard and Kahlan are apart from this book, so of course we have theirs, but neither Zedd nor Ann get much pagetime on their o...
Complete review of the entire series is available on Green Man Review:http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_goodkind_swordominibus.html