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Loading... Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, Book 8) (edition 2004)by Terry Goodkind, Jim Bond (Reader)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Oh dear, this really is a spacefiller book. A third of the text is repeated at least once in retelling the same thing to separate groups. Simple bits of travel are strung out over 10 or 20 pages. If the next couple of books look to be the same I think this is where I will stop reading them and move to another series. Oh, and "insure" is not the same as "ensure" - bad proofreading/editting there. ( ) While this book is better than The Pillars of Creation, it isn't by much. The entire thing is one long preach about the evils of pacifism. Even without the preaching, it's still a poor book overall. Like a previous person said, Richard's sister Jensen has been reduced to a sidekick and good for pretty much nothing. Her goat Betty played a bigger role here than she did. And surprise surprise, Kahlan is taken prisoner again. Boring. At this point, I'm reading the series just to finish it. I'm so tired of Goodkind's writing. In every book, he repeats himself over and over again. How many times do we have to read about the effect that drawing the Sword of Truth has on Richard or the entire history surrounding Confessors whenever Kahlan uses her power? Speaking of which, Goodkind never explains why Kahlan's power didn't have any effect on Nicolas. I also hate how convenient he comes up with Richard's solution to the problem with his gift. It's amazing how wizards much more experienced and far older than Richard didn't know that their theory on balance and how it relates to not eating meat were completely wrong. I really hope The Wheel of Time series is better than this one. no reviews | add a review
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A poisoned Richard Rahl faces a difficult choice when he is promised an antidote and the salvation of an endangered empire if he will surrender his beloved wife, Kahlan Amnell, to his enemy. No library descriptions found. |
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