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Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)

Terry Goodkind

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Jul 23, 2013 Alexis Masters rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own, genre__fantasy-fiction, series, first-in-series, magic-sorcerery, audiobook

I’ve read this book a few times, but the audiobook was fun. I think I might be slowly getting addicted to audiobooks in general. This is the first book in Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series, and it is absolutely a high/epic fantasy story. I’m not going to write paragraphs here to summarize the story – the book is way too long for that. But I will say that Richard (the star, known as the Seeker) is a lot of fun. I like that he’s not a perfect hero. He has a temper (actually, he earns the nickname ...more

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Jun 26, 2011 Lanica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: reviewed, audiobooks, fantasy, series-continuing, read-in-2011

Although this had a lot of the cliches of epic fantasy I was still drawn in and wanted to know what would happen next. It has some very dark parts, which I wouldn't recommend for younger kids. There were parts that were repetitive, and some that were just too long, but overall I really enjoyed this book and will read the next one. ...more

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