Faith of the Fallen - Terry Goodkind

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Title: Faith of the Fallen
Author: Terry Goodkind
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: Audiobook ~30hrs
Date read: January, 2012

The Seeker of Truth and his Mother Confessor sweetie are both looking a little worse for the wear after their chime-hunt in Soul of the Fire. To top that off, Lord Rahl finds himself a reluctant prophet with the vision that their cause, the fight for freedom against the Imperial Order, is essentially sunk. (Chalk that up to part of the Wizard's First Rule: people really are stupid.) The two lovers soon find themselves separated, Richard off to the Old World thanks to treacherous Sister of the Dark Nicci, and Kahlan left behind, forced to betray Richard and his prophecy by raising an army to fend off the approaching armies of Emperor Jagang.

Whereas "Soul of the Fire" wasn't as good as I remembered, this one was even better than I remembered, so it all evens out :)

Not as many different story lines in this book. Richard and Kahlan are apart from this book, so of course we have theirs, but neither Zedd nor Ann get much pagetime on their own. That didn't bother me too much, I've always thought Richard's storyline the most interesting in this book. I'm fascinated by the mentality of the Order and the Old World - once again proving that communism is a good idea in theory, but it'll never work in practise - people are too corrupt, too egoistical and too lazy.

I found it a tad far-fetched that a simple statue could have such a profound effect on people, but I guess it only works like that within the confines of a society that surrounds people with death and ugliness.