Series: Book 6 in the Sword of Truth series
Rating: ****
Tags: Fiction
Summary
A novel of the nobility of the human
spirit. A novel of ideas. New York Times bestselling author
Terry Goodkind returns with an extraordinary new novel of the
majestic Sword of Truth. Richard, the Lord Rahl and the Seeker
of Truth, has returned to his boyhood home, Hartland. When a
Sister of the Dark captures Richard, he makes a desperate
sacrifice to ensure that his beloved Kahlan remains free. Taken
deep into the old World and forced to labor for the tyrannical
evil he's sworn to defeat, he is determined to remain defiant
even in the heart of darkness. Kahlan, left behind and
unwilling to abandon the cause of the Midlands, violates
prophecy and breaks her last pledge to Richard. Finally she
will come face to face with the architect of the terror
sweeping her land-the mad dreamwalker, Emperor Jagang. While
Kahlan faces Jagang's vast horde, Richard discovers the truth
of the Imperial Order's rule. Forced to endure his ordeal
without magic, without the Sword of Truth, without his love, he
stands against the despair and soulnumbing regime of the Old
World, his hope kept alive only by the knowledge of the
rightness of his cause.