Debt of Bones (Sword of Truth Prequel Novel) by Terry Goodkind
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Book Reviews of Debt of Bones (Sword of Truth Prequel Novel)
Book Review: Good Book
Summary: 4 Stars
This book helped explain how certain things came about in the series. It was much shorter than I expected, but a good book none the less.Book Review: Dept of bones
Summary: 4 Stars
Good reading for S.O.T lovers. Lets us know how everything came to be in the first book Wizards fist Rule.Book Review: LOVE THIS SERIES
Summary: 4 Stars
READ EVERY BOOK IN THIS SERIES AND LOVED EVERY ONE OF THEM CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF TERRY GOODKINDBook Review: not really all that good..
Summary: 3 Stars
I suppose I am reading this at the wrong time, as I've yet to read any of Goodkind's other stories, but all the same I can compare this to other books I find worth reading.
The saving graces here are the fact I picked it up for $2.99 (plus a 10% member discount - woot for $.29!) and it's short.
There were times that the First Wizard was simply a little too all knowing, all powerful, and just flat out right about everything.
Then there was Abby, whose emotions changed at the drop of a dime, she cared naught about anything but herself and her grievances and she most certainly never acted the way a good child of a sorceress would when met with someone like the First Wizard.
Abby was very 'perfectly' egotistical, selfish, and immature.
Mother Confessor and the other sorceress were 'perfectly' motherly and caring.
Zedd was very 'perfectly' perfectly a man-god.
...and then the ever so 'perfectly' "wise" ending. oi.
Debt of Bones is a 'perfectly' frustrating read for anyone that knows that the fantasy genre truly is for. If you like philosophy being displayed through teeter-totter writing and cookie-cutter perfection, then by all means read this. And from what I hear, read his other stories too! They're all the same I hear...
Book Review: Slightly Disappointed
Summary: 3 Stars
Loved the book but was let down in comparison to Terry Goodkind's other books. With a central character such as Zedd and a prequel to the Sword of truth series he could have gone much deeper into the story and life of Zedd and leaves questions still unanswered. What about how the sword of truth was stolen from him and how did he get it back from Shota? Who was the one named seeker that Samuel killed to get the sword and why would Zedd name a false seeker? When did he go to Westland? What exactly caused him to forsake magic and the midlands council? How did Darken Rahl rape his daughter later in life to give birth to Richard if the wall was already up, she was too young to conceive in the story? When did George Cypher get involved and how did Ann and Nathan meet with him? When did Zedd and Ann create a pact that no wizards would be taken from the midlands while there were wizards to train them? My list just keeps going and a few of these are very vaguely answered in the series itself, but by writing this book Terry Goodkind opened himself to criticism by only partial filling in blanks and it wouldn't have raised so many questions had he just left out this particular book. It leaves me craving more without hope of there being more.