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Stone of Tears Review by Kahlan
Terry Goodkind started out with such a bang with WFR, that I don't
know that he could possibly match it. WFR is still my favorite of the
three, but SOT is only a step below. It's wonderful, well written, and
very interesting. It keeps you jumping from Richard to Kahlan and
back, often at some of the most interesting points, but even if you're
dying to know what happens next with Richard, you soon are just as
interested in Kahlan. Which I think, does a good job of holding your
interest. Zedd had a very minor role., which was rather a
disappointment, but it was a good role, if small. Adies history was, I
thought, to obviously made up after WFR. If you're going to have a
complex history, make it up WITH the character, I say. Some times it
works to do it later, but in this case it was kind of strange learning Adie
had a lost love Pel, and then having that problem be resolved, all in the
same book. She's supposed to have had this problem for years, and yet
in WFR we hear nothing that hints at it. The character of Ann, the
Prelate, (sorry if I'm jumping around to much. I'm just talking about
things as I think of them.) was much to manipulative. She uses the
prophecies to much, in my opinion. Some people have roles that they
must not know about, in order to do them right. (I'm talking mainly
about Verna here.) Yet ANN never has such a role! ANN never has to
do anything without knowing about it! I do like Ann, but I think the way
she uses the prophecies is a little unbelievable. The war scenes with
Kahlan were well written, and some times even a little to realistic. (here
I'm referring to Galea.) The minor subplot of Chase trying to get to
Richard was really necessary though. He never made it to him, and
some times the scenes with him were easy to miss, or confusing. (I have
a friend who never understood how Chase got into the desert) I
suppose it was done though, so Richard would know where the Stone
of Tears was, and not have to go searching for Rachel. The ending was
very good, and the prophecies about Kahlan was a wonderful plot trick.
I absolutely KNEW Kahlan wouldn't die, because she was one of the
two main characters, and you know those never die right? Sure in some
books important people die, (actually, this has started more recently I
think, and I find it makes books some times better and more realistic,
and also painful.) but with the love Richard and Kahlan have, and the
way they had found out they could be together, and just the fact that
you know Richard would kill himself without Kahlan (the way he almost
did) and THEN where would the story go, I just knew she couldn't die.
Still, I didn't know HOW she'd manage not to die. And when Mistress
Sanderholt told Richard that she had seen it, I was just as confused as
he was. "Not my Kahlan. My Kahlan can't be dead." TG very nearly
had me certain there, but I clung to hope, without knowing how she'd
be alive, but just thinking she must. A very nice little plot trick, I must
say. Of course, some people would probably figured out what had
actually happened, but I didn't until it was explained. I also get very
emotionally involved in books, which is why I was upset about Kahlan.
I come to feel the characters are real people, that in a way I know
better then you could know real people, since I can know what they're
thinking or feeling. Books are a passion for me.=) But I'm off the
subject. The ending wasn't quite as neat as WFRs, leaving you a feeling
that everything was okay for the moment, (and ONLY for a moment, as
it turns out) and it obvious that Richard and Kahlan wouldn't be together
for awhile yet, but it did have a nice sense of an ending. All in all, I loved
this book, and would give it five stars.
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