Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind

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Summary Excellent, adult-orientated fantasy.

Wizard's First Rule is the first book in Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series.

Richard Cypher holds the fate of three nations in his hands, he must learn the Wizard's First Rule to achieve his goals. The heart hounds are stalking the humans, blood sucking flies are abound and nowhere is safe. Magic makes love stronger and despair harder.

Terry Goodkind has created a consice, intelligent book that is believable from the start. This is fantasy that is definately aimed at the adult rather than the child and some chapters do contain quite graphic paragraphs of a sexual or violent nature.

It is evident that Terry Goodkind has strong political and social views that he is keen to get across in his books. Rather than finding this spoilt the narrative, I found it healthy reading a book that makes you think about what the author is trying to say. I found that Ursula Le Guin's works had the same effect on me.

This is an excellent fantasy book and hopefully Terry Goodkind can keep up this high standard throughout the entire series.

Wizard's First Rule (Gollancz S.F.) (Amazon.co.uk)

Author: Terry Goodkind
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 784
Publication date: 2008-07-10
Publisher: Gollancz

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Wizard's First Rule (Amazon.com)

Author: Terry Goodkind
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 784
Publication date: 2008-01-01
Publisher: Tor Books

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Howard from UK
"A good read, yet I couldn't help seeing parallels in the story and characterisation with The Lord of the Rings and Start Wars (young apprentice, old wizened scholar, beutiful princess type etc etc.) Not good enough to tempt me into continuing the series though......"

Ed from Nottingham
"I found that this book draws quite heavily on other fantasy novels - possibly a bit too much. I constantly had the feeling that I had read this book before. That aside, I still think its a great book, and would recommend to people who have perhaps enjoyed Pullman or Paolini and are looking for something a bit heavier."

Brian from Madison
"Definitely not anywhere near my favorites from the genre, but a classic cookie-cutter good vs. evil story that is good filler while waiting for new books in other series."

David from Filey
"Enjoyed the book from start to finish, and enjoyed the whole seris even though some of the mid seris books are hard going. The main charactor Richard goes to hell and back several times for love and honour. By the end of the seris I had loved and hated, laughed and cried along with the whole saga. Don't care what any other reviews say about these books, I say miss these and you miss a fantastic fantasy read."

Jason from Maine
"I loved this book. Life like characters that become even more drawn over the series. An excellent read for everyone."

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