[.ca] Soul Of The Fire (Cd) (Unabr.) (ISBN 1423313976)

From Amazon.com:
Soul of the Fire is the fifth book in Terry Goodkind's wildly popular Sword of Truth saga. The previous books are: Wizard's First Rule, Stone of Tears, Blood of the Fold, and Temple of the Winds. When last we saw our heroes--Richard Cypher (Lord Rahl) and Kahlan Amnell--they each had made enormous sacrifices to save one another from certain doom. To save her beloved, Khalan, Mother Confessor of the Midlands, had spoken the three chimes, summoning these chaotic beings from the world beyond and unwittingly releasing incredibly destructive power. Now the chimes are stealing souls, and malevolent forces are reshaping the world itself. To save everything from almost certain doom, Richard, Kahlan, and the wizard Zedd must hunt the elusive chimes and reharness them before it's too late. Although comparisons to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series are inevitable, there's obviously enough room in the world for more than one blockbuster swords and sorcery series. With Soul of the Fire, fans of epic sagas will get their fill of adventure, magic, strange beings, and struggles for power as Goodkind delivers another thrilling episode of the Sword of Truth, with all the complexity and taut characterization we've come to expect from this master of fantasy. --Adam Fisher

Brilliant exposition of racial truth:
This book gets five stars for it's wonderful tale of the Anders and Hakens. Most may not have noticed that this story is a parable for race relations in our world. The Hakens were people whose education and weaponry were superior to those of the Anders. They conquered the Anders and improved their lives by sharing the benefits of their superior intellect. The Anders, resenting their obvious inferiority, slowly turned on the less numerous Hakens and institutionalized a culture of Anderian guilt and weakness. This is perfectly analogous to what is happening to white Europeans. Western culture has advanced humanity beyond any other and yet, lesser cultures as found in sub-Saharan Africa are busy trying to convince whites that they are responsible for the horrible condition blacks find themselves in and making whites feel guilty for daring to accept the truth of black intellectual inferiority. I congratulate Terry Goodkind for daring to tell this tale and hope that the Anders (whites) will one day proudly identify themselves as part of the white race and dare not let anyone persuade them that their heritage is not a great one worth preserving.

Ian's Review:
Okay so basicly the chimes are loosed by Kahlan in saving Richard's life and he must banish them in order to restore magic. Cara is sent to recieve Richard's sword and finds two kids, Fitch and Morley, stealing it. And Zedd is turned into a raven after his soul is stripped from his body by Reechani the queen of the fire. This novelwas appealing to me because it had a lot of suspense in it and that kept me reading ever onward. Also some other reasons are that the characters were portrayed as real people and reacted in ways that you would expect them too...except maybe Richard, Zedd, and Fitch. Also the fact that it is book five in a series that I've grown too love and have read all along didn't hurt it at all. This book is mainly for the sci-fi audience I believe. It is also for you if you are deep into swords and magic.

slowest book in the series:
Soul of the fire is like a bridge to the next level of the series. alot of people they can't stand this book they stop reading the series. it's really slow in it's action, kinda boring most of the book and dicussions only or description to everything around you. but as soon as you get over with book in the series you'll love the next "faith of the fallen" is a great come back after reading soul of the fire you start hating your self for reading the book and hating the series but he faith of the fallen bring right back to how you loved the series.

another good book:
this is a very good SOT novel. If you read this book you will enjoy the whole thing. Though i must say the ending was not as strong as it could have been but it is still a very good book. If you have never read one of these books i urge you to start from the begining or you will be lost. All in all a very good book

A Stall in the Series:
I thoroughly enjoyed the first 4 books in this series but this one was a bit slow out of the gate. I did find it got better as it went along but I found the ending very inconclusive. There was alot of attention paid to developing characters that had very little impact on the story and I was a bit frustrated with the stalling story line. As usual,Goodkind takes 4 pages to say what could have been said in one page but that is just his writing style and you can either take it or leave it. Typically, the story is entertaining enough to endure the endless run of words. I see the beginnings of changes to the characters of Richard and Kahlan. They seem a bit worn down at the end of this book and have lost some of their superhero appeal. I have heard wonderful things about Faith of the Fallen and I really hope to be re-engaged to the series when I read it but right now I'm only loyal because of the wonderful adventures that Goodkind took me on in the first 4 books.