Michael-5 said:
Is this a good book? What's it about (without spoiling). |
Already someone answered as it being a good book or not.
Be warned the Sword of Truth Series gets worse the further in you go. Faith of the Fallen is pretty close to the point where they start sucking afterwards.
Also Terry Goodkind needs to work on his dialogue. he has the main character sound very preachy and like he is saying some famous quote with every sentence he says. Boils down to loses the human nature in the dialogue. Also each book covers basically one moral he wants to get across. He disquises them as Wizards rules, but for example Faith of the Fallen which I brought up is basically all about how Socialism is pretty much horrible. He takes it to the ultimate extreme in his example. It's not a subtle thing like some say Chronicles of Narnia is with being Jesus themed. You very much know what he is trying to tell you/teach you/preach to you/ect.
But I would recomend reading the series at least up to Faith of the Fallen. i think the next one is still decent too. Be warned though, there is some graphic female rape/sex talk the further the series you get. He tends to make you hate the bad guy each book by having him do horrible things to women and having the suspence be "is this girl going to get raped or saved"
But all else fails I highly recomend at least the first two books. It can be daunting to think of reading 5-6 books or the whole series of 11 or whatever it is. But you should definately check out the first two.
