Chainfire

By Terry Goodkind

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Average Rating: (See all 3 reviews) Format: Paperback, 756 pages Published In: United States, November 2005 Quantity Available: 223 Ships within 6-10 days The author of "Wizard's First Rule" returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring The Sword of Truth to its riveting culmination. From The Publisher: With "Wizard's First Rule" and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real. Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 0765344319 EAN: 9780765344311 Dimensions: 16.87 x 11.84 x 3.18 centimeters (0.35 kg)

I have been reading Terry GOodkind since my 8th grade english teacher turned me on to it. I was so excited to read this book. When I started, I was immensely upset about it. I mean No Kahlan? I frantically read the entrire book in all of three days, trying to get to the solution and resolution of the book that I thought was to be the final one in the series. I was furthermore upset to learn that Kahlan is never found, and all is not right in the world.
I think the plot is awesome. Its much different than his previous plots in which Richard and Kahlan are seperated, endure many harships, and then reunite, only to be torn apart in the next novel. This time, the stakes were a lot higher. I think it's lovely that the story isn't quite resolved because it builds the next book up. The way everything is wound up into this tight little coil of truth amazes me. How deeply everything is interconnected and how realistic, comparable to real life people the characters are inspires me to write myself.

Terry Goodkind's Chainfire is a masterpiece. All the whining about philosophy and lack of Richard's character developement is ridiculous. The deep, Ayn Rand-esque objectivism philosophy is what gives this classic series the power that it has. Without a complete understanding of Richard's view of life and moral values, this book is nothing but another sappy sword and sorcery phantasy offering, on par with the mindless drivel of piers anthony and l.e modessitt.
In Chainfire, Kahlan has gone missing, and only Richard remembers her. The entier time, even in the back of your mind, you know he'll find her, Goodkind manages to keep your worry elevated. Masterful writing brings us scenes such as the graveyard exhumtion of the mother confessor, and Richard's confrontation with Shota.
Goodkind's Intelligent handling of the mystery's explanation is well done, and is perfected by it's correlation with this book's wizard rule : contradictions cannot exist. Once again, Goodkind's artful use of Philosophy in Fantasy setting gives an already powerful book the extra punch we have come to expect from the Sword of Truth series.
One common complaint regarding this book is it's length. This is untrue. This book is not long enough. This is a serious book. A serious writer writing a serious book cannot be expected to compress his ideas into 150-200 oages merely to cater to the ever shortening attention spans of his loudmouthed minority audience.
To conclude, i say again, This book of a gem. Read this at all costs

Terry Goodkind is a very good author, this book shows his unique writing ability very well. I really liked the way the tense moments would use alot of suspense to build up to climaxes, a vital book. Anybody needs to read this book, very interesting and well written. Highly reccomended.