Author: Terry Goodkind
Themes: Truth vs Belief
Quotes: "Mice think they are in the right, but my cat still eats them."
Reading/Listening Time: 34 hours, 10 minutes for entire book, I skipped roughly 10% of it.
Review:
This book was like was like watching a crime drama. I don't know how you feel about crime dramas, but I think they can be pretty engaging (especially if they actually make you invested in the characters), but then inevitably it seems like they'll have these really graphic scenes that just kind of sneak up on you, and you realize you're watching torture-porn.
OK, maybe that's a bit of a strong label...what I mean is that the story can become gradually so much more graphic than it needs to be, and you hardly even notice because you're so wrapped up the tension of it all.
This story does have pretty engaging characters, I liked Richard, and Kalhan, and Zed. (And that cute little girl they kept running into, and the other wizard who was her friend and gave her the doll to let her know how much she was worthy of being loved...cuz everyone else treated her like crap and it #just #ugh #FEELS!)
I loved that each of them knew a different part of the mystery, that the other's didn't know...and how that influenced their whole group dynamic. Like, "I can't tell you this piece of information right now, because you won't understand it, or it will give you the wrong impression of me and right now we need to have each other's backs."-type thing...It's really suspenseful and engaging to read.
And I get that if you're going to have your main character weld a 'Sword of Righteous Indignation', or whatever, you're gonna need some really really horrible, universally despicable people to use it on.
But the whole depiction of someone grooming a child up for ritualistic sacrifice, conveyed using sexual euphemisms, was simply distasteful.I read most of this book on kindle, these types of scenes made me I wish I could eye-vomit that shit out of my head.
Rating: I was really torn with the rating, I eventually went with 3/5 Stars because I did enjoy the story. I have not desire to continue the rest of the series tho.
And I get that if you're going to have your main character weld a 'Sword of Righteous Indignation', or whatever, you're gonna need some really really horrible, universally despicable people to use it on.
But the whole depiction of someone grooming a child up for ritualistic sacrifice, conveyed using sexual euphemisms, was simply distasteful.I read most of this book on kindle, these types of scenes made me I wish I could eye-vomit that shit out of my head.
(I can't believe I paid for this book)
Rating: I was really torn with the rating, I eventually went with 3/5 Stars because I did enjoy the story. I have not desire to continue the rest of the series tho.
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