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Terry Goodkind (Author)
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September 15, 1998 Sword of Truth (Book 4)
On the red moon will come the firestorm...

Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the D'Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victims.

To quench the inferno, he must seek remedy in the wind...

To fight it Richard and his beloved Kahlan Amnell will risk everything to uncover the source of the terrible plague-the magic sealed away for three millennia in the Temple of the Winds.

Lightning will find him on that path...

But when prophecy throws the shadow of betrayal across their mission and threatens to destroy them, Richard must accept the Truth and find a way to pay the price the winds demand...or he and his world will perish.

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A deadly plague sweeps the fantasy world of Goodkind's best-selling series.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Another independently intelligible doorstopper addition to Goodkind's Sword of Truth series (Blood of the Fold, 1996, etc.). This time, sword-wielder and wizard Richard Rahl, his warrior beloved Kahlan, grandfather Zedd, and the rest of the cast are threatened by the Imperial Order and their dream walker, Jagang, who sends a wizard-assassin, Marlin, to kill Richard. Meanwhile, old flame Nadine, befuddled by a witch, shows up intending to marry Richard; close behind comes the healer Drefan, Richard's half- brother. Marlin/Jagang announces gleefully that he's caught Richard in a ``bound fork prophesy,'' a fancy way of saying heads I win, tails you lose. Another one for the fans. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 992 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Fantasy (September 15, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0812551486
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812551488
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 5 x 1.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (474 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Terry Goodkind is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sword of Truth series, Richard and Kahlan stories, author of The Law of Nines, and writer of Legend of the Seeker, the Sam Raimi produced, ABC television series based on The Sword of Truth books.

Goodkind was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also attended art school, one of his many interests on the way to becoming a writer. Besides a career in wildlife art, he has been a cabinet maker and violin maker, and he has done restoration work on rare and exotic artifacts from around the world -- each with its own story to tell, he says.

While continuing to maintain the northeastern home he built with his own hands, in recent years he and his wife, Jeri, have created a second home in the desert Southwest, where he now spends the majority of his time.

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Temple of the Long-Winded Sermons, March 11, 2005
While I am an avid fan of Terry Goodkind and I await each book with some anticipation, I must admit that this book was a little...windy (forgive the pun, please). The beginning was a little slow, and was it just me or did anyone figure who the sicko was w/in the first 5 lines of the first murder scene? The evidence was placed in this person's belongings too soon and the excuse they made was a little pathetic. Couldn't the evidence have shown up later in the book, just to sort of throw the reader off, and delay the eye-rolls?

Anyway, there were also sappy love scenes that sort of made me want to put the book down. I understand Goodkind may have been trying to evoke some sympathy for Richard and Kahlan's frustrating (and overly drawn out) wait to complete and consummate their love, but the stolen-kiss scenes sort of dripped with sap. Also, Richard's dealings with Kahlan and with the lords and delegates from different countries were a little drawn out and preachy. His long philisophical explanations, and Goodkind's seeming need to continuously refer us to Richard's "raking raptor gaze" and Kahlan's "sparkling green eyes" and tight, white, regal Confessor's dress, get repetitive and you end up skipping large chunks of the dialogue. The stubbornness of the main characters will at times frustrate you, and after all the waiting and yearning and restraint the main duo has endured, how could the writer snatch away the sanctity of their first union by turning it into such a horrid experience? It was so terrible, it worked. That part just killed me...

But after all this passes, the book begins to pick up and roll with the formula that made Goodkind's first book such a riveting story. He did a good job at evoking irritation and murderous inclinations towards a new character, Nadine. There are parts that draw out giggles and appreciation for the humorous and angry sides of Richard's loving personality and seemingly deep well of patience with stupid or insipid characters. And again, I must stress that, for the typical female, Nadine will boil your blood. The scenes involving the sick children and some of the characters close to Richard dying, were just enough to make me misty-eyed (I am a sucker for well-described death scenes).

It also made you appreciate the love, devotion, and trust in the developing relationship between the Mord-Sith (mostly Cara and Berdine) and Richard. The overall story is good and you're able to forgive some of the flaws in this book. Richard is still one of the best characters developed in any science fiction I ever read. Goodkind makes him a handsome, strong, sensible, likeable, and intelligent hero, but at the same time he allows Richard to make mistakes, admit to them, and learn from his mistakes, without making apologies and enemies. In other words, a man that will never exist in real life.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Beginning of the downward spiral?, July 3, 2006
I was forewarned that although the first few novels in the "Sword of Truth" series are pretty entertaining, that the series gets stale fast, and becomes almost unreadable the further in you get. After just finishing "Temple of the Winds", I have to wonder if this is where that slide begins. The story itself isn't BAD, per se... it's rather formulaic, with a magical plague and the hero needing to stop it. He's got a pretty good war brewing with the Old World Imperial Order, and an interesting foe in the Dreamwalker Jagang. Where this story really fell flat for me was in the constant bickering, the incessant apologies, the melodramatic dialogue, and the rather ridiculous (and repeated from book 1, and book 2, and book 3) "plot twists" that fate, and every other character keeps throwing in to try and keep Richard and Kahlan apart. Really, when it came down to the requirements for Richard to enter the temple, the story became pretty ridiculous.

Those significant complaints aside, the story still moved along pretty quickly and had a good deal of action. For that reason I do give it 3 stars, but the dialogue and melodrama really started to get to me around the halfway mark of the novel. I have yet to read book 5, so I'm not sure where he picks up from this point, but I definitely thought that this was a step down from "Blood of the Fold", and I hope that Mr. Goodkind loses the "everybody's trying to keep Richard and Kahlan apart" plotlines in his future work.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars There's better stuff out there, guys..., April 21, 1999
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I will try not to be rude or to bash it, but I really didn't like this book. I've read the whole series and probably will continue to, but it's severely going downhill. The first one rocked, the second was almost as good. The third was a drag and this one's the worst. I'm not the first to say it, but I think my main gripe is repeatedly hearing how much Richard loves Kahlan, and how much Kahlan loves Richard. A romance between 2 main characters can be a pleasure to read if well done. I'm 15 years old but I know there is more to love than just saying 'I love you', over and over again. The plot is there, but it's shallow, boring, cliche, and dumb. The characters are similar. I'm a fantasy nut, but I get discouraged when I see such flat, cheesy villains: evil, sadistic, slightly insane, and out to destroy the world. Yes, I know there are people like that in the world, but they don't make good book material. There are good scenes in this book, but by the end my eyes hurt from rolling so much. I know there are people who enjoy this kind of book and I'm not laughing at them, it's a personal choice; but probably anyone who likes such great authors as Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, and Robin Hobb, aren't going to want to waste their time on this drivel.
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