Thursday, December 8, 2011

Confessor by Terry Goodkind

In what should have been no surprise to me, this book spent 450 pages preaching Goodkind's all-life-is-sacred-and-any-form-of-collectivity-is-a-form-of-slavery morality and then spent the last 150 pages rushing to tie up all the loose ends before magic leaves the world *forever* and everyone dies in a giant void. Cue some 11th hour deus ex machina plot twists and machinations, and Richard saves the day leaving everyone happy but Jagang, who [spoiler alert] finally dies! It seems such a shame that Wizard's First Rule started so promisingly, but lead to this drivel. All the characters suddenly become dogmatic wooden puppets who are too dumb or bull-headed to grasp concepts more difficult than those a schoolchild could understand. The magic system seems to grow increasingly dependent on a weird geometrical system that's not fully explained. I'm definitely undecided on whether I will bother with Omen Machine or not.

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