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Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

4 reviews

12obe12twalke12's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

To the point and fast paced adventure. The "chosen-one" explores his newfound powers while trying to save the world against all odds and also finds himself in a forbidden romance. All of these typical fantasy tropes fill a plot weaved together like gently interlocking riddles. Some outcomes are a little telegraphed while some are genuine surprises. There's also a pretty consistent internal logic to the magic, wildlife, and cultural elements. The world is compelling and characters find themselves in surprising circumstances despite certain cliches. A major theme is duality. Love vs hate. Anger vs forgiveness. Perception vs reality. A sizable amount of the dialogue is spent in consideration of these concepts. With a clear set of principles filtering through. I admit I'm sympathetic to most of what the book advocates. Unfortunately it all feels a bit contrived. I'd recommend it to young adults if it weren't for the drawn out and graphic abuse that dominate 3-4 chapters of the book. As a result it ends up straddling a blurred line between mature and immature audiences. I loved it when I first read it at 17 years old. The flaws are more apparent now that I'm 37. Still good overall.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Death

Minor: Cannibalism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Death of parent, Pedophilia, and Sexual harassment

siglerbooknook's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I remember loving this book as a teenager, but this was my first time rereading it as an adult. Honestly it read like a man's s3xual fantasy. Kahlan is so poorly written. Like he couldn't decide if he wanted a strong independent woman, or arm candy for Richard. So much of the book was sexual for no real reason. I honestly doubt I'll ever read it again. I'll stick to the tv show which was entertaining and not so twisted and lacking plot or growth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Racism, Self harm, War, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Cannibalism, Murder, and Toxic relationship

gdf's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

The book is filled with useless stuff... The section with the Mord-Sith seemed like if the autors descided out of nowhere to write about his sex fantasies... It does nothing to the plot exept to bring Cypher in D'Hara.
Zed start to teach Cypher and Amnell about Ayn Rand's philosophy out of nowhere, and he insult the reader. Cypher befriended a dragon still without any incidence on the plot other than he has a dragon friend at the end. Any editor sould have ask him to cut at least a few hundreds pages of the manuscript.

Also Cypher, who should be exellent to discover the truth about something very important about his brother that the reader could find out quite fast. The story is quite previsible and is lacking in plot twists. And finally Rahl is to much inspired by Stalin even when it doesn't make any sens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Gore, and Confinement

Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, and Slavery

booknug's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, and Torture

Moderate: Child abuse