Phantom

Author - Terry Goodkind ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Tor Books was reviewed on 4-Jun-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Phantom by Tor Books. ...does it ever set up for what will surely be a spectacular conclusion! I can´t wait for the next (and, sadly, final) book in the series.

This book contains several great new characters and plot developments, including Richard´s new foreign policy direction for the D´Haran empire (it´s about damn time!) which is highly relevant to the real world today, and a shocking twist at the end.

Highly recommended.¤

2) Hardcover Book Phantom by Tor Books. All along in this series, I´ve been troubled by Goodkind´s use of violence - both regular violence, sexual violence, and the way he kills horses off. (Apparently, concern for life doesn´t extend to animals)

But this book is over the top with violence. I´m only about halfway through, but was it really necessary to have Jebra´s graphic description of life under the Imperial Order? or to have Richard´s vision of being one of the people about to be killed? As Richard thinks at one point "we know all this". It does nothing to advance the plot, it´s merely page filler.

It´s possible Goodkind was looking for something to make the book longer. I think Chainfire & Phantom could have been combined into one book if a lot of the redundant "this is what happened in the first few books" passages and the graphic violence were removed.

Hopefully he eases off on that stuff in the final book.¤

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