It was interesting to see how fragments of prophecy (such as “Fire” and “Pawn takes Queen”) were woven through the story. One thing I enjoyed was watching how the prophecies that played such a large part in this novel came to fruition. Granted they fit well enough with the main storyline (an example being that we meet one of the people who gave Darken Rahl one of the boxes of Orden that he had before Wizards First Rule began), but it was shocking to be introduced to completely new characters and locations that had never been hinted at before. The secondary characters become obsessed with knowing about how prophecy is going to affect their future, and direct this particular brand of crazy at Richard and Kahlan.Īdditionally, new characters and places are brought into this novel places, people and classes of magic users that had never been mentioned in the course of the series, ever. In this book, however, there were random people spouting off prophecy as though they were a fountain spouting water.
In the other novels, it was an important component of the series but no one seemed to pay it much mind. One thing I noticed right away while reading this book is that everyone, except for the main characters, seems to be struck with a sudden obsession with prophecy. There was absolutely no time lapse between the ending of the last book, and the beginning of this one it was great to think that one hadn’t missed anything crucial while they had been “away.” The Omen Machine picks up the day after Confessor ends, which was an interesting revelation for me. The wait for the last year has been excruciating, but here we are: On the other side of the release date that so many have been waiting for. In April of 2010, an announcement went live on Goodkind’s site that there would be a new novel about Richard and Kahlan (the main characters in the Sword of Truth series).
The day I finished Confessor was a sad day indeed. For some of us, it was the end of an era: Personally, I discovered the Sword of Truth series in 2001, and had read each book at least twice when Confessor was released. When Confessor released in September of 2008, the readers were told that it would be the last book in the Sword of Truth series. Over the series of 11 novels, the reader is taken on a journey of magic and war, love and deceit, beauty and death. Terry Goodkind brought readers into the world of the Sword of Truth in 1994.