Comments on: Confessor by: Terry Goodkind (A Violent Reactory Review)

By: Feelin Duped

Feelin Duped — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:17:20 +0000

Wow… I can’t believe I found a positive review of this book! Granted, most everyone agrees with me: Great characters, horribly tedious preaching of a simplistic philosophy, all in all let down of a last book. I nearly taught myself how to speed read because of this book. My skimming skills have reached new levels. Seriously, pages and pages of rehashing previous books, conversations, etc.
I got into this series because of the t.v. show and thought that maybe they should have stayed closer to the books for the show, but I am so glad that they didn’t. The t.v. show captured what I like about the characters without all the unnecessary meandering of Terry Goodkind.

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By: Khamul

Khamul — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:55:43 +0000

Jeremy, while this was a let down ending, if you look at it on a more insightful manner, you will understand that book one wasn’t pointless. Wizards first rule; people are stupid and will believe what they want to. As Zedd said early in the series, its the fundamental law. The series was brought in full circle, leading everything back to to the first rule. If you don’t take time to appreciate his cleverness in this, then yeah, you can go with everyone elses post and pretty much sum it up as “no refund chump”

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:37:26 +0000

Really now, people? I just came upon this review, whilst looking around online for people’s opinion’s of Terry Goodkind, and I was absolutely shocked by what I found. I thought Confessor was a great book. I was only MORE interested in the series after Naked Empire, and I sincerely refuse to believe that Goodkind made any mistakes here. You were expecting a super duper duel at the end, honestly? Why? That doesn’t even make sense. I laughed my ass of when Jagang got what he deserved. And if nobody noticed earlier in the series, “Stone of Tears”, for example, Goodkind was already showing his “God is a stupid ass myth” tendencies.

If someone can write a better ending for that book the ties everything together as well as it was “lolmonkeythumbs”, let’s see your brilliance. I was not let down at all.

By: Engr. Dr.

Engr. Dr. — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:35:59 +0000

Yes, Richard and Kahlan did get back together.
Btw, if you do buy that book, be prepared to shove it somewhere dark and forgotten after you read it. Nobody deserves to read that book twice!

By: vjcantos

vjcantos — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:20:06 +0000

Okay..I haven’t read the last three books yet..i kinda lost interest after that and i’m thinking of buying them and finishing the series..but judging from all these comments, I’m kinda thinking twice..so i just need to know what happened in the end..did kahlan and richard actually got back together again..?..coz if not, then i’m not buying the book..hehe..=)..thanks

By: Britt

Britt — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:23:34 +0000

For most of the posts here, I agree with the points being made, if not to the depths of irritation at feeling it. I absolutely loved most of the books, and the final three were my favorite, hands down.
To the earlier posts, I agree with Calvin. The reason that Terry made the characters so different was because they lost their memory of Kahlan. It was part of the story, not Terry screwing up.
However, it was the most long-winded book I’ve ever read. Whoever said that they felt like he kept reminding them about the last chapter and then made references to previous books without explanations, I completely agree. The explanations were not necessary. And the ending definitely needed to be longer, and the rest of the book shorter. However, I still loved it. The story, the plot, everything.
And as for Nicci, if she and Richard had gotten together, it would have ruined the theme of the books altogether.
All in all, I loved the books, but I too am glad it’s over.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:42:13 +0000

I have only one (serious) criticism of this book.
So, the Book of Counted Shadows was fake? It didn’t matter what box Darken Rahl opened (or am I wrong here)? If this is true, it means THE ENTIRE FIRST BOOK WAS POINTLESS! How can I reread it now knowing that the Book doesn’t really hold the key? I feel like Terry has completely betrayed the plot of his most important and touching novel by this cheap cop-out.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:46:54 +0000

Richard spent the entire chainfire series searching for Kahaln and as soon as he finds nothing comes it he makes his incediblely drawn out speech to “banish the evil-doers” and the book ends, Goodkind really droped the ball on this one.

By: Engr. Dr.

Engr. Dr. — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:36:35 +0000

Nic,
I also find the Malazan series interesting, but I think it lacked character development. I just couldn’t identify with any of them. The storyline, however, is amazing! The way SE weaves magic, intrigue, and the meddling of the gods is awesome.
Btw, have you read GRRM’s A Song of Ice and Fire? Now that’s one series nobody should miss. Magic there is relegated to the most of extreme of sidelines, but it made the series all the more interesting.

Jeremiah,
TB is a great author. It takes great willpower for my part to put any of the books down once I get into their story. Nevertheless, I think there’s a “Dragonballish” tone to it. Newer, more menacing monsters seem to crop up every time a new book is published. Strangely, it seems like many of the “newer” monsters are actually older than the monsters shown in the book previous to where they appear.