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Review of Temple of the Winds by TCL,:
Return to the world of The Sword of
Truth, which "has everything one could
ask for in an epic fantasy" (Publishers
Weekly), the world of Richard Cypher,
whose adventures have stirred the
blood and filled the hearts of legions of
satisfied readers. When Richard was a
simple woods guide, he never dreamed
he would get caught up in magic, war,
and dangers so extraordinary that the
fate of his entire world would hang on
his actions and decisions.
After he rescued Kahlan Amnell, the
Mother Confessor of the Midlands and
the woman Richard would come to love,
he left the forest and entered into a
larger, and more perilous, world. In
Wizard's First Rule they were the last
hope against the forces of Darken Rahl,
who had vowed to enslave the land on
behalf of the Keeper, the embodiment
of evil that ruled the Underworld.
Over the course of his journeys Richard
learned to accept his true role, first as
the Seeker and the wielder of the
Sword of Truth, and then, in Stone of
Tears, as the new Lord Rahl and the
war wizard who led the fight against the
Keeper and his dark minions.
Richard managed to seal the Keeper in
the Underworld and, in Blood of the
Fold, defended the Midlands from the
genocidal armies of the
Blood of the Fold. Yet a greater threat remains. Everything Richard has learned thus
far, all the wisdom, the magic, and the conviction he holds, will be for naught as the
power-mad Emperor Jagang returns with his multitude of demonic underlings. For
Richard must now challenge the impossible: the magic that thwarts magic, the
three-thousand-years-sealed-away fortress of evil that has begun to infect the world
with a terrible, sorcerous plague. He must find the Temple of the Winds.
But once the shadow of betrayal falls across that mission, Richard must accept the
Truth and find a way to undo the damage...or his world will perish.
Jacket art by Keith Parkinson
Jacket design by Carol Russo
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