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A review by bogdanbalostin
Warheart by Terry Goodkind
5.0
I didn't write a full review at the previous ending of this series but... The previous ending is the Confessor book, the ending to the Sword of Truth series while this series of 4 books is called Richard and Kahlan and it's a sequel to the other series. Honestly, it's just one big freaking series with 2 endings. Your choice where you want to stop. So, back to the previous ending. It was not perfect but it was fitting. Maybe it had elements of deus ex machina but it didn't feel like it because the struggle was real and the villain (not likable, duh) was pretty fleshed out.
Back to this book that tries to bring everything together. Literally everything. Some characters just pop up in the last book to say hello after they've been missing from the last 3 or 4 books (depends on how you count).
I recognize the book was terrible half-way through by having this feeling of "no way they are going to do this" and "you've got to be kidding me" but I kept going because the more I was near the ending the more hilarious the whole situation was becoming. And I didn't laugh so much from a book in a few months. I mean even the characters go into Rambo mode and they have lines like "Pffft! I've been dead and now I'm better".
Did I like it? Yeah but not because it's a well-written story or has great characters. It's just that it feels like a parody of the original series and I can appreciate that. Too much, it seems. So if you are the type of reader who takes everything seriously (or even listen to the author who pretends to write a serious story) you'll give it 2 stars. If you can find the hilarious part of it and feel that reading it was time well spent then you'll probably give it 5 stars.
Let's go fast through the whole book, without or with minimal spoilers. The beginning is very slow, considering that there is an invasion going on and this is the last book. It's female power. Four badass women go to save a guy.
Then for a huge part of the book, they roam around lead by the dude, while they protect him and argue about stuff. It's like an episode of a harem anime.
Rant time: Samantha was becoming one of my favorite characters in these last 3 books and I got really angry at what happened to her. It's not just because I don't agree with the author but it feels like her story was just the lazy way out with fewer explanations to give. I just wanted to see more of her character development. Rant over.
In the last quarter of the book, Richard is doing impossible stuff without any explanations and yeah, the ending happens. Happily ever after. Come on, this is not a spoiler, it's expected.
By the way, do you remember who the villain was? Neither do I. That's the main problem with this series (last 4 books). The antagonist is not a well-developed character. He only does one thing and then the story unfolds around Richard. They barely met or fight. For a long part of the story he is missing and I caught myself at times completely forgetting about him.
Anyway, instead of the conclusion, you can see my reaction to this ending below:
Back to this book that tries to bring everything together. Literally everything. Some characters just pop up in the last book to say hello after they've been missing from the last 3 or 4 books (depends on how you count).
I recognize the book was terrible half-way through by having this feeling of "no way they are going to do this" and "you've got to be kidding me" but I kept going because the more I was near the ending the more hilarious the whole situation was becoming. And I didn't laugh so much from a book in a few months. I mean even the characters go into Rambo mode and they have lines like "Pffft! I've been dead and now I'm better".
Did I like it? Yeah but not because it's a well-written story or has great characters. It's just that it feels like a parody of the original series and I can appreciate that. Too much, it seems. So if you are the type of reader who takes everything seriously (or even listen to the author who pretends to write a serious story) you'll give it 2 stars. If you can find the hilarious part of it and feel that reading it was time well spent then you'll probably give it 5 stars.
Let's go fast through the whole book, without or with minimal spoilers. The beginning is very slow, considering that there is an invasion going on and this is the last book. It's female power. Four badass women go to save a guy.
Then for a huge part of the book, they roam around lead by the dude, while they protect him and argue about stuff. It's like an episode of a harem anime.
Rant time: Samantha was becoming one of my favorite characters in these last 3 books and I got really angry at what happened to her. It's not just because I don't agree with the author but it feels like her story was just the lazy way out with fewer explanations to give. I just wanted to see more of her character development. Rant over.
In the last quarter of the book, Richard is doing impossible stuff without any explanations and yeah, the ending happens. Happily ever after. Come on, this is not a spoiler, it's expected.
By the way, do you remember who the villain was? Neither do I. That's the main problem with this series (last 4 books). The antagonist is not a well-developed character. He only does one thing and then the story unfolds around Richard. They barely met or fight. For a long part of the story he is missing and I caught myself at times completely forgetting about him.
Anyway, instead of the conclusion, you can see my reaction to this ending below: