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imanreads's review against another edition
1.0
Wow. This series really should have ended after Confessor. These new books feel like fanfiction...really bad fanfiction.
nikkiethereader's review against another edition
5.0
Title: Severed Souls
Author: Terry Goodkind
Release Date: August 5th, 2014
Page Count: 559
Start Date: November 19th, 2021
Finish Date: December 19th, 2021
Review:
Story: I've really been in love with this entire series. I love that it puts me on the edge of my seat until the very end. Sometimes I feel like it goes too far. It's so dark at times that it just doesn't seem like things go far that it doesn't seem like it will ever really be happy. Also, one of my favorite characters is no longer in the series now. So there's that.
Characters: I feel like the characters just weren't themselves in this one. Everybody was morose and just constantly down. I mean I get it. It was just very sad.
Critiques: BRING HER BACK!!! (A tongue and cheek critque)
Narration: Great as always.
Final Thoughts: It seems like this tale will never end sometimes. It's not that I think the series is going on forever. It just seems like there are so many bad things that happen. I'd like to see some good. Please. Just please. I'll be starting the next book soon.
Author: Terry Goodkind
Release Date: August 5th, 2014
Page Count: 559
Start Date: November 19th, 2021
Finish Date: December 19th, 2021
Review:
Story: I've really been in love with this entire series. I love that it puts me on the edge of my seat until the very end. Sometimes I feel like it goes too far. It's so dark at times that it just doesn't seem like things go far that it doesn't seem like it will ever really be happy. Also, one of my favorite characters is no longer in the series now. So there's that.
Characters: I feel like the characters just weren't themselves in this one. Everybody was morose and just constantly down. I mean I get it. It was just very sad.
Critiques: BRING HER BACK!!! (A tongue and cheek critque)
Narration: Great as always.
Final Thoughts: It seems like this tale will never end sometimes. It's not that I think the series is going on forever. It just seems like there are so many bad things that happen. I'd like to see some good. Please. Just please. I'll be starting the next book soon.
astroscribe40's review against another edition
5.0
I think the soul most severed was my own. I can't say I cried but I frequently was too shocked to continue reading and was so furious that I slammed the book shut and threw it across the room once. My teeth are starting to hurt now from unconscious clenching in anger at this ending.
In short, I need that next book immediately.
In short, I need that next book immediately.
happyocelot's review against another edition
5.0
Terry Goodkind, how could you? I was torn between giving this book a 3 or 4 stars. Even through out the tragedies, it's still a good book which is why I gave it a 4 star. But, it is quite clear that this set of books will be the end of the series. There was a lot of tying up of lose ends and closers. I don't see how there can be a continuation after "Warheart." I just kept thinking... "Terry Goodkind, how could you?!?!?!"
sequence19's review against another edition
5.0
I did not think it would be as devastating as I'd heard, but I was wrong. Another brilliant Goodkind work that makes me want to cry.
castaya's review against another edition
3.0
I'm not entirely sure how to rate this book. I was so confused and disappointed by the end of it. Richard is dead (we knew this going in) which saddens me greatly, but I feel like I wasted all kinds of time reading the story leading up to his death. Zedd gets murdered early on, but instead of the heart-wrenching end this character deserves, Goodkind brushes it off like it's nothing. Ouch. He then went to great lengths to explain what the villains were trying to accomplish and a little bit of the reasons why, but their importance is actually very minimal in the grand scheme of things. Hannis Arc marches off to take the People's Palace and that's the last we see of him. WHAT?!? Why bother putting the character in at all? Emperor Sulachan comes back from the dead leading an army of undead slaves... to nothing. I was willing to get past his use of zombies in this story arc simply because he did such a good job of tying them into the world, but they really seemed to have no purpose. Ludwig Dreier was a really well-developed character, and I thought he was awesome, but then he was captured and killed before really accomplishing anything. Oh, and there's some kind of mysterious occult power that comes out of nowhere and never really gets explained but somehow manages to fuck up any chance for the characters to actually do anything in the story. And did you notice how I made no mention of that previously all-important Omen Machine? Yeah, Goodkind really doesn't either. So basically, Richard and Kahlan are sick, Kahlan gets stabbed, Richard uses said sickness to reach into the world of the dead and bring Kahlan back, sacrificing himself in the process. And... CURTAIN. I read 92 chapters for that? Nothing else in the story really seems to matter anymore. It's like Goodkind just wrote in a bunch of extra stuff to fill the pages. I've always loved his books for the fact that they weren't just about making you want to know what would happen next. Any challenge the characters faced had a purpose besides just driving forth the plot - it helped the characters (and subsequently the readers) learn something about themselves or about Goodkind's world (which was always a mirror of our own) and made for a truly enjoyable read. Goodkind seems to have forgotten that and has opted for the uninteresting page-turner with pointless characters and plot twists, and an extremely unsatisfying ending.
jessaca_with_an_a's review against another edition
5.0
If I could give this book a six star rating, I would! There was never a dull moment! The book was well-written and felt as though the reader was on the journey with the characters themselves. Many twists and shocks along the way!