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A review by rentheunclean
Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind
2.0
This book sort of continues in the style of the last one, telling you a sort of side-story, that isn't that connected to the main storyline. The difference is that this one actually involves all of the principle characters, which strangely, makes it worse.
Since the last book was introducing a new character, the departure from the events surrounding the main characters could be justified. Here, it just seems like filler, as the main characters are involved, but what they accomplish in the book has no real bearing on the story.
Other than that, the book is, of course, well written and has a cool analysis of a group of people who take certain convictions towards nonviolence too far. Goodkind is sort of looking at the side of Objectivism that speaks for resisting violence (with violence if necessary) done by those who would oppress you, rather than taking the "higher" moral ground of passiveness.
It is interesting that he is exploring avenues of this ideology that were not covered in Atlas Shrugged (though they may be in other Rand books I have not read) but it doesn't play super well, to be honest.
Since the last book was introducing a new character, the departure from the events surrounding the main characters could be justified. Here, it just seems like filler, as the main characters are involved, but what they accomplish in the book has no real bearing on the story.
Other than that, the book is, of course, well written and has a cool analysis of a group of people who take certain convictions towards nonviolence too far. Goodkind is sort of looking at the side of Objectivism that speaks for resisting violence (with violence if necessary) done by those who would oppress you, rather than taking the "higher" moral ground of passiveness.
It is interesting that he is exploring avenues of this ideology that were not covered in Atlas Shrugged (though they may be in other Rand books I have not read) but it doesn't play super well, to be honest.