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A review by aronr
Warheart by Terry Goodkind
2.0
I was a huge fan of Goodkind's works up through Confessor. The series should have ended there. The final set of 4 books (Omen Machine, The Third Kingdom, Severed Souls, and Warheart) has been a dumpster fire. Characters were killed off in such a way that seems insulting to their past history and actions in the SoT timeline. Killing off characters is fine, but the way it was done was truly lacking.
It felt like a majority of this arc was just overly descriptive traveling sequences. The series could have been comfortably tied up with Confessor, however these books felt almost like a retcon in how they seem to imply that this new set of events was actually the main battle all along. There is also the fact that the whole "occult magic" thing is supposed to be a balance to the Gift...except the gift doesn't have any affect against occult magic, but occult magic can slaughter gifted (a notable slaughtering of a certain character essentially happens off screen). The motivations of the new villains are incredibly week when compared to the former main villain Jagang. And after all that has been recorded of the "Great War" that occurred 3000 year prior, nobody seems to have mentioned a world threatening army of zombies?
Overall, these new books have been quite disappointing, which just kills me to admit considering how much I loved all the prior novels to this arc.
I don't generally write reviews, but my feelings of disappointment after concluding this 4 book arc were so notable that I felt a review was warranted. I would still recommend everything up to Confessor(Book 11), but I'd probably advise that the reader doesn't go past that point.
It felt like a majority of this arc was just overly descriptive traveling sequences. The series could have been comfortably tied up with Confessor, however these books felt almost like a retcon in how they seem to imply that this new set of events was actually the main battle all along. There is also the fact that the whole "occult magic" thing is supposed to be a balance to the Gift...except the gift doesn't have any affect against occult magic, but occult magic can slaughter gifted (a notable slaughtering of a certain character essentially happens off screen). The motivations of the new villains are incredibly week when compared to the former main villain Jagang. And after all that has been recorded of the "Great War" that occurred 3000 year prior, nobody seems to have mentioned a world threatening army of zombies?
Overall, these new books have been quite disappointing, which just kills me to admit considering how much I loved all the prior novels to this arc.
I don't generally write reviews, but my feelings of disappointment after concluding this 4 book arc were so notable that I felt a review was warranted. I would still recommend everything up to Confessor(Book 11), but I'd probably advise that the reader doesn't go past that point.