A review by xaryon
Heart of Black Ice: Sister of Darkness: The Nicci Chronicles, Volume IV by Terry Goodkind

3.0

The story by itself was good and would have been better if it hadn't been told twice before. Yet another ancient army of overwhelming odds rising up to continue a war that was started over a thousand years ago. This army only had two sorceresses as their main magic while the defenders had many more... with experience fighting against a larger force (that seemed to have forgotten their tactics) which should have been able to make short work of the larger force who had never seen such tactics in their own war (as they were stone statues for a thousand years).

By itself, it was a great story and written rather well. As part of a series, it just felt like Terry ran out of ideas, like a television series that has run longer than it should have.