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A review by itsfreelancer
Death's Mistress by Terry Goodkind
3.0
Goodness! Was Goodkind always this boring? Or preachy? Or so annoying? I mean I grew up reading about the Seeker and those were some of the best days of my life. I'm scared to go back and read those all over again.
Death's Mistress is obviously Nicki. That sister of the dark who captured Richard almost 10-12 books ago. Yes, this is the first of her series and God damn it's annoying to read "I'll do it for Richard. Richard is the best. You are my savior Lord Rahl, I love you Richard Rahl. Uwu"
And who is this book written for? Definitely not adults. Or wait, it also has instances of rape and whatnot so definitely not children. But the language and prose, oh god, it's terrible. It's like you're 35 and you've picked up your favourite Famous Five novel once more. I mean you loved it, still do maybe, but you just really want to skim it through. Yes, it feels like that. Except this one has too many instances of how curvy Nicki's boobs and hips are.
I don't want to talk about the plot. Ooh, the answer to the mysteries of the world lies in place Z. So they start from A and goes through every other place in between and just fuck shit up. Or shit finds them and these intrepid heroes of ours have epiphanies and we start the whole process of "ooh I'd kill them for you Lord Rahl, you are the best ruler, Lord Rahl".
Did I also mention that there's a wizard who doesn't have magic? His best weapon? Crying about how he misses the magic.
Despite all of this, I'm going to pick up the next book. Maybe not too soon. I need to rinse my brain. But the last 50 pages were actually fun to read. And I mean, Death Mistress finally being the vengeful sorceress that she is.
All in all, 2.5 stars rounding up.
Death's Mistress is obviously Nicki. That sister of the dark who captured Richard almost 10-12 books ago. Yes, this is the first of her series and God damn it's annoying to read "I'll do it for Richard. Richard is the best. You are my savior Lord Rahl, I love you Richard Rahl. Uwu"
And who is this book written for? Definitely not adults. Or wait, it also has instances of rape and whatnot so definitely not children. But the language and prose, oh god, it's terrible. It's like you're 35 and you've picked up your favourite Famous Five novel once more. I mean you loved it, still do maybe, but you just really want to skim it through. Yes, it feels like that. Except this one has too many instances of how curvy Nicki's boobs and hips are.
I don't want to talk about the plot. Ooh, the answer to the mysteries of the world lies in place Z. So they start from A and goes through every other place in between and just fuck shit up. Or shit finds them and these intrepid heroes of ours have epiphanies and we start the whole process of "ooh I'd kill them for you Lord Rahl, you are the best ruler, Lord Rahl".
Did I also mention that there's a wizard who doesn't have magic? His best weapon? Crying about how he misses the magic.
Despite all of this, I'm going to pick up the next book. Maybe not too soon. I need to rinse my brain. But the last 50 pages were actually fun to read. And I mean, Death Mistress finally being the vengeful sorceress that she is.
All in all, 2.5 stars rounding up.