He was an awesome hero before Goodkind turned him into an angry, hypocritical douchebag. But here, right from the beginning, I had a stake in what was happening in the story. It didn't help that the things that WERE happening to them were either stupid, badly thought out and written, or just plain made no sense. They were different somehow, and so I wasn't really invested in what was happening to them. These weren't the characters I knew and loved. One of the biggest problems with everything from The Omen Machine onward for me has been that I simply didn't care about what was happening. Now, before I continue, I need to bring up one thing. Richard is dead, and Kahlan wants him back so she goes to see the Witch Woman Red to find out how it might be possible. It seemed like he was actually trying with this one, which is more than I can say for a lot of the crap he's published recently. When I say this book is "decent" in this review, you can translate it to mean "This book is decent, but only when you compare it to The Law of Nines, The Omen Machine, The First Confessor, The Third Kingdom, and Severed Souls." It's still not a great book, but it's a better book than any Goodkind has published in a good decade or so. Now, that statement comes with a disclaimer. So, the point being, I went into this book with such a case of lowered expectations that when it turned out to be merely mediocre rather than terrible, it seemed as though light was shining out of the heavens, Ode to Joy being sung by an angelic choir led by Beethoven himself, and little naked cherubs were flying around me. I mean, look at Wizard's First Rule, the parts of the story that are meant to be scary are genuinely scary, then look at Severed Souls, where Goodkind flat out says they're scary and doesn't do anything other than that to build it up. Gone is the good writing, the good storytelling, and pretty much any hint that Goodkind has any clue what he's been doing as an author.
Gone is the well crafted, and often witty banter between them. Gone are the entertaining, distinctive, and, for the most part, well written characters. But, as a whole, pretty much every book Goodkind has published since The Sword of Truth proper ended has been garbage. That opinion has not aged well, as I think back upon that book with more and more disgust and loathing as time goes by. I superficially enjoyed The First Confessor, even though it is probably the absolute worst written book I have ever read that was actually published by an established author with more than ten published works under his belt, and at the time that I read it, I felt that The Third Kingdom was decent. It's no secret that I thought pretty much every book that Terry Goodkind has published since Confessor was crap. There's a bit too much to spoiler tag this time around. This review contains spoilers, both for Warheart and for Severed Souls. I superficially enjoyed The First Confessor, even though it is probably the absolute worst written book I have ever read that was actually published by an established author with more than ten publis An Opinionated Look At: This is the final battle in a war three-millennia old, a war that saw the Sword of Truth forged, a war that could mean the end, not only of their lives, but of their world.moreĪn Opinionated Look At: Terry Goodkind's Warheart By Eric Allen This review contains spoilers, both for Warheart and for Severed Souls. She must fight for Richard's very existence, and Richard, trapped in the underworld, must fight to keep the world of life from ending. But now Richard lies on a funeral bier - suspended between the worlds of life and death and Kahlan faces her greatest challenge. Soulmates, pawns of prophecy and inheritors of an ancient conflict, Richard and Kahlan's destinies have been bound together since their first encounter in Wizard's First Rule. But now Richard lies on a funeral bier - suspended between the worlds of life and death and The epic finale to the THE SWORD OF TRUTH series: 16 volumes 20 years in the making, 26 million copies sold. The epic finale to the THE SWORD OF TRUTH series: 16 volumes 20 years in the making, 26 million copies sold.
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