The Pillars of Creation
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In The Pillars of Creation, #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind has created his most lavish Sword of Truth adventure yet.
With winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter.
Meanwhile, Lauren finds herself drawn into the center of a struggle for conquest and revenge. Worse yet, she finds her will seized by forces more abhorrent than anything she ever envisioned. Only then does she come to realize that the voices were real.
Staggered by loss and increasingly isolated, Richard and Kahlan must stop the relentless, unearthly threat which has come out of the darkest night of the human soul. To do so, Richard will be called upon to face the demons stalking among the Pillars of Creation.
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12 primary books14 released books#7 in Sword of Truth
Sword of Truth is a 14-book series with 12 primary works first released in 18 with contributions by Terry Goodkind.
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I should have stopped this series after the last book. But, I was so involved with the well-developed characters by that time that I kept going. It continues to be preachy and annoying. For more details, see my other reviews.
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i'm just giving 3 stars (instead of 1-2) cause where was a certain grand action scene in the book and all the business with Althea & Lathea. also Nathan is as “dashing” as always and a total kickass!
This was a re-read for me. I first read the series years ago, probably over 20yrs ago now and fell in low with these books. I loved the charactes, story etc.. mainly because it really aligned with my personal world view at the time
However over the yrs that has evolved, and I have started to understand why people dislike this series so much and to be honest this is probably the worst of the books.
This book introduces 2 new characters, Oba and Jensen Rahl, children of Darken Rahl that are supremely ungifted and the gifted are blind to them in the sense they cannot sense them with their gift and thus they are immune to magic
Both had very different upbringings resulting in very different character traits which this book constrast quite well very much expressing the idea of nature vs nurture.
However this book did not need 700+ pages to tell their story, and could have easily been done as a novella or short story. It just did not or should not have taken so much page time for essentially a side quest to explore these ideas. Many of the other charactes who are supporting or main roles in the overall story make virtually no appearence, and when they do some felt way out of place or even character from how they were established in the previous books of the series. Overall this is just not a good book overall. I give it 2.5 stars as I still like the series overall, if not as much as I used to
