{"id":1616,"date":"2009-12-02T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T03:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2010-10-09T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:53:09","slug":"wizards-first-rule-sword-of-truth-series-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2009\/book-reviews\/wizards-first-rule-sword-of-truth-series-book-review.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizard's First Rule – Sword of Truth Series Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to admit I’m embarrassed to be reading a book with such a clich\u00e9d title. I mean the whole idea of a magic sword is so pass\u00e9, it reminds me of He-Man. But let’s face it – almost all epic fantasy novels are set in a middle ages atmosphere and the attraction of a special sword can be too powerful to resist.<\/p>\n

Wizard’s First Rule<\/strong> by Terry Goodkind is the first book in the Sword of Truth<\/em> series and my feelings about the book are mixed. I don’t know if I’m going to move onto the next one or not. There’s something missing for me that I can’t quite put my finger on. I think it has to do with the fact that I don’t really care about the characters in the book. The only really interesting ones are the bad guys who engage in some pretty unusual<\/em> practices to say the least.<\/p>\n

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There are a few new concepts that I kind of liked, but really not as much as the “endowment” logic in the Runelords<\/a> series or the Saidar\/Saidin concept in the Wheel of Time<\/a>. In those two, the magic system is just that – a system<\/em>. So far in the Sword of Truth<\/em> series, there’s not much logic to how magic works. It’s haphazard and things become possible as and when the plot dictates it must.<\/p>\n

Also, unlike the Wheel of Time and the Runelords series, I’m not really keen to find out what happens to the hero. Perhaps the problem is that I don’t really feel the sense of destiny that characterized the protagonists in the other two despite late references to “prophecies”. Another problem may be that he has things a little too easy. He has a tutor right from the word “go”, and the realization that he’s more than just the sword he carries comes a little too late.<\/p>\n

It also pisses me off when close friends in the story keep vital secrets from each other for ridiculous reasons. This is a flaw shared by other series’s too by the way. People must tell each other everything. Only then is it believable. I’ve decided to read an “in-between” book before I determine whether or not to read the second book in the series. Let’s see how I feel about it then. I might give the series another chance and see if I start caring more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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