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Review of Blood Of The Fold By Virginia Shaw
Richard and Kahlan are trying to bring order to the Midlands after the
war. Richard has declared himself ruler of all theMidlands and Master of
D'Hara. Sister Verna has returned to the Old World and the Palace of
the Prophets where she and Warren are working together to find and
defeat the Sisters of the Dark, but two new evils are already abroad;
one in the New World and One in the Old.
A movement which calls itself The Blood of the Fold has as its mission
the destruction of all magic and those who posess magical abilities. This
is supposedly being done for good but is really an evil sent into the
world by The Keeper to try to defeat additive magic. The second evil
presence is in the form of General Jagang whose army is slowly
conquering the Old World to add to his empire. Jagang is a
Dreamwalker; a person with the ability to invade people's minds in their
sleep and thus control their actions. The only safety to this insidious
invasion is absolute allegience to Richard as Master of D'Hara.
This third book is not nearly as long as his second and many members of
the Terry Goodkind club on Prodigy felt it was a "bridge" book from the
second to the fourth in the series because it sets up many new characters
and situations that will need to be explored and explained. I think this
book displays Mr. Goodking's abiltiy to write humerous situations. One
particular scene where Gratch, who has been searching for Richard,
finally meets up with Zedd was extremely funny and, I thought, very well
done. This book is not quite as bloody as Stone of Tears with its graphic
battle scenes but there is enough action to satisfy those so inclined. It
also leaves one with so many unanswered questions and new situations
that you will be waiting eagerly for the publication of "Temple of the
Winds" due out this autumn.
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