As soon as I finished Chainfire I picked up Phantom. It has shocked me to the core and left me without words and an overwhelming desire to go out and buy Confessor with money that I don't have an contemplate buying The Omen Machine the day it comes out even though it would be in hard cover and ruin the visual appeal of my shelf.
Terry Goodkind weaved a story like I've never read before. It kept me up late thinking about my life and gave me a new Wizard's Rule to live by: "Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self" (page 134).
The last two books have read like a mystery. Slowly revealing clues and making you think one thing before in the next chapter revealing something else that makes all your previous thoughts untrue. The characters all get into situations that are so hopeless that you want to give up on it all but then someone prevail again all the evil that surrounds them. These books put a seed of doubt in your head and really make you think about what's good and what's evil. They are extremely thought provoking and really mean something.
The other day one of my friends was asking me about the television series Legend of the Seeker and what I thought of it. I adore that series. It even surpassed my love of Fringe before it was cancelled. I told him that if he really wanted to get the most out of it he would be well advised to read the first four books in the series because the show has a lot of holes and inaccuracies in it. He asked me about how many pages that would be and when I told him roughly 4000 he was completely turned off by the idea. I tried to explain how life changing the series really is and even though right now I'm so far in that I can't explain it anymore he should really at least give it a chance. Needless to say this started a debate on reading and books and I feel bad because I discredited him on many accounts but when you insult my favourite series by one of my favourite authors you can expect no less.
I rated Chainfire rather low because I found it disappointing but Phantom get eight night wisps out of ten. It was a phenomenal read and one of the fastest paced books I've read in a while. It kept you on the edge of your seat the whole time. I really enjoyed it. It will not let fans of the series down.
Terry Goodkind weaved a story like I've never read before. It kept me up late thinking about my life and gave me a new Wizard's Rule to live by: "Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self" (page 134).
The last two books have read like a mystery. Slowly revealing clues and making you think one thing before in the next chapter revealing something else that makes all your previous thoughts untrue. The characters all get into situations that are so hopeless that you want to give up on it all but then someone prevail again all the evil that surrounds them. These books put a seed of doubt in your head and really make you think about what's good and what's evil. They are extremely thought provoking and really mean something.
The other day one of my friends was asking me about the television series Legend of the Seeker and what I thought of it. I adore that series. It even surpassed my love of Fringe before it was cancelled. I told him that if he really wanted to get the most out of it he would be well advised to read the first four books in the series because the show has a lot of holes and inaccuracies in it. He asked me about how many pages that would be and when I told him roughly 4000 he was completely turned off by the idea. I tried to explain how life changing the series really is and even though right now I'm so far in that I can't explain it anymore he should really at least give it a chance. Needless to say this started a debate on reading and books and I feel bad because I discredited him on many accounts but when you insult my favourite series by one of my favourite authors you can expect no less.
I rated Chainfire rather low because I found it disappointing but Phantom get eight night wisps out of ten. It was a phenomenal read and one of the fastest paced books I've read in a while. It kept you on the edge of your seat the whole time. I really enjoyed it. It will not let fans of the series down.
No comments:
Post a Comment