Je commence à me lasser de cette construction des romans : les 100 premières pages sont denses, les 400 suivantes délitées et les 100 dernières à nouveau denses. Et cette façon de rappeler toujours ce qui s’est passé dans les tomes précédents est lassante, n’apporte rien à l’intrigue, et dessert le récit. Je vais faire une pause dans cette série, histoire de découvrir d’autres écrits.
Richard et Kahlan continuent à lutter contre l’Ordre Impérial. Ils parviennent à se marier, mais il semblerait que les Carillons, venus du Royaume des morts, aient été libérés sur leur monde pour semer terreur et destruction, et surtout effacer la magie.
Une bonne partie du roman se déroule en Anderith, où on découvre de nouveaux personnages, et deux nouveaux peuples, les Hakens et les Anderiens.
Mais nos deux héros cherchent surtout un moyen de se débarrasser des Carillons, en consultant les archives de Joseph Ander, un sorcier qui a vécu il y a des milliers d’années.
Richard parvient enfin à renvoyer les 3 maléfiques dans le Royaume des Morts, récupère ses pouvoirs, et retourne vite auprès de Kahlan afin de la soigner, après qu’elle ait été passée à tabac.

My least favorite title in the series. This book feels like an annoying side quest you think will be worth your time, but all you get is a crappy certificate of completion. I love The Sword of Truth series, but this one could have been left out without any major impact.

Holy fuck, everyone said this book was bad but I was so determined to read the entire series without skipping it that I literally downloaded a .txt file and read the whole thing on Notepad on my laptop. I had to believe it would get better. I'm used to Goodkind having no idea what being a woman is like. Kahlan does the same thing several times in the first half of the novel just refusing to believe Richard even though his entire character arc is being right about everything. The women are all just jealous and petty unless it serves the plot to make them slightly tolerable of each other's existence. It wouldn't have even been so bad if the ending had been worth it but there is just soooooooo much exposition for everything to end with disgusting, cruel deaths of 90% of the characters we have been introduced to in this book, and everything else just wrapping up into a neat little bow so we can move on to the next novel. I'm exhausted and I put so much time into reading this book! I'm pretty mad about it. As always, expect a huge amount of rape, torture, and humiliating sex, especially for all the women. The whole nonsense about the Dominie Dirtch just for them to disintegrate by the end of the novel?! So much happened and was explained in elaborate detail just for it to be completely nullified by the end. Still glad I read it because I always would've wondered what happened but I think very few important things will carry over into the next book. I suppose we'll see.

3.5 stars

I would love to rate this book higher, but because Terry Goodkind likes the sound of his own voice so much, the story gets so bogged down by all the extra words. Still, I’m invested in where he takes Richard and Kahlan next.
adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book made me question whether life was worth living. The fact that such a heartless, unoriginal, indulgent book exists causes me literal pain. It took me a ridiculous amount of time to read this, because of just how awful it is.

Oh, how I love this series! For me, each book seems to get better! I definitely liked Soul of the Fire far more than any of the others! What a great journey this story takes us on! I find it hard to discipline myself to read only one book in this series and not jump right in to the next one! Will get to that one soon though, got to see what happens after one hell of an ending!

Recensione completa qui: http://ilsociopatico.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/recension…

Goodkind non si smentisce mai. In quest'ennesima avventura fantatrash, Richard e Kahlan devono fermare la minaccia dei Rintocchi prima che questi eliminino tutta la magia dal mondo. Voi direte: figo; peccato che quella che dovrebbe essere la trama principale (e che comunque è solo un allungare la vicenda, visto che sono tre libri che Jagang incombe con il suo Ordine Imperiale sulle Terre Centrali e ancora non è successo niente di interessante su quel fronte) sia ridotta in realtà a mera sottotrama.

E allora qual è la storia predominante di questo libro? Gli intrighi politici di Anderith, regno governato de facto dal ministro della cultura Bertrand Chanboor. Perché tutta quest'enfasi? Perché Chanboor è una parodia di Bill Clinton, leader politico che a Goodkind evidentemente non va molto a genio, mentre la moglie di Chanboor, Hildemara, è chiaramente Hillary Clinton. Tra l'altro è pure una parodia fatta col culo, perché si riduce a "Finto Bill Clinton è uno stupratore (e sai che novità, che un personaggio in un libro di Goodkind sia uno stupratore...) e Hillary è un cesso pauroso". Satira politica che neanche a Colorado Café.

Ma non funziona. Paradossalmente, infatti, poiché Goodkind è un inetto, la versione satirica di Bill Clinton riesce a essere un politico più illuminato di quell'idiota di Richard, e quindi il tutto si ritorce contro a Goodkind e all'idea di utilizzare dei romanzi mascherati da fantasy per fare predicozzi politico-filosofici. Un ennesimo epic fail.

Tutto sommato, romanzo perfettamente evitabile, con poche situazioni degne di nota (l'unica gemma fantatrash è l'Evil Chicken of Doom dei primi capitoli) e soprattutto molto ma molto lento.

Il prossimo volume, il sesto, è da molti considerato "l'inizio della fine", perché è quello in cui Goodkind getta la maschera e si rivela per quello che è: un telepredicatore dell'oggettivismo randiano. Sarà una gioia stroncarlo, perché, pur non avendo (quasi) nulla contro la filosofia della Rand, non sopporto gli autori che ti martellano il cervello con messaggi morali a discapito della trama. Ma questa è un'altra storia per un altro giorno.

Did not enjoy the lack of Cara especially in the last half of the book. This one was alright, not as great as the other books that I've read so far. The people in Anderith totally got what they deserved including Dalton.

Not sure if I want to continue reading the rest of the series as I've read that the quality goes downhill from here.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Well that was definitely a book that I spent my time reading

Like for all their faults the last couple books in the series have had exciting bits. This one had about 50 pages of intrigue throughout the whole thing. Like I can’t believe I spent 150 pages slogging through the introduction and build up of side characters just to have them be killed/told to run off to save themselves. I didn’t really care about the politics of Andereth so all the bits will dalton fell flat. Actually most of this book fell flat tbh. I’ll probably still pick up the next one though as I like the main cast of characters, as annoying as they can sometimes be. Zedd, Ann, and Cara are always fun.