El principio se me hizo un poco pesado eso si una vez que nuestra pareja protagonista se separa el libro se vuelve trepidante. Si Rahl el Oscuro daba miedo lo que sucede en los siguientes capítulos parece la antesala de algo epor. Terror, guerra, crímenes horribles son presenciados por Kahlan y sus compañeros de aventuras, no se que les espera pero no parece que vaya a ser nada bueno.. Richard se embarca en una misión con la hermana Verna y lo cierto es que no da buena espina, Richard empieza a sufrir terribles dolores de cabeza, las hermanas le explican que es a causa del don y que debe ir con ellas para poner fin y recibir las enseñanzas de la magia. Desde la aparición de las hermanas y su viaje temo todo el tiempo porque algo aún peor de lo que sufrió con la moth sith (o como se escriba) le suceda..

El final es bastante abrupto se nota que la edición española divide el segundo volumen en inglés en dos partes. Eso sí ahora no puedo esperar a leer la siguiente parte. 2022 fantasia2 s Magda PaisAuthor 4 books69

Tal como aconteceu com A Primeira Regra dos Feiticeiros, a Porto Editora resolveu que um livro - A Pedra das Lágrimas - seria dividido em dois para que não andemos com 600 páginas às costas. Obrigado caros amigos, em nome de todos os que andam com livros na mala/mochila/mão, agradeço profundamente. Mas quando chega a hora da critica, é mais lógico (acho eu) que se juntem os dois livros num só.
Fantasia da boa. Com estas 3 palavras se resume o que achei destes dois livros. Terry Goodkind, que eu desconhecia até aquele fatídico dia no Continente, é um escritor de mão cheia  que consegue encantar com a sua escrita simples e acessível, partilhando connosco uma história bem construida (e até credível), onde o bem vence o mal e onde se mostra que nem tudo é a preto e branco, havendo sempre um espectro de cores bastante extenso.

A Pedra das Lágrimas mantém o ênfase no amor, na amizade e na confiança, provando que nem tudo o que parece, é. Esta é uma história que nos prende, da primeira à última página, cheia de acção e emoção, mistério e magia e onde o perigo espreita a cada página.

As personagens continuam fortes e bem construidas. Os diálogos são credíveis e, a cereja no topo do bolo: há momentos em que o humor também dá o ar da sua graça (e tanto que os livros melhoram com pequenos apontamentos de humor).

Resumindo, mais um livro (neste caso dois) que valeu a pena ler!2019 ebook2019 my-ebooks ...more2 s Kevin Macías Limón32

no fue de mis favoritos pero tiene muy buen final 1 Molly425

Depois de ter lido no ano passado o primeiro volume (por cá foi dividido em dois) e de ter gostado imenso, foi com grande entusiasmo que comecei a ler este volume, que é o terceiro por cá ou a primeira parte do segundo volume (original). E só tenho a dizer bem do livro!

Gostei imenso de rever Richard e Kahlan, Zedd, Chase e muitas outras personagens. Continuam todas excelentes e complexas, com muitos segredos, o que é excelente, para se poder ir tentando descobrir. Este livro podia estar organizado por POV's, porque existem vários capítulos com destaque para cada grupo ou núcleo de personagens/acontecimentos/espaços, o que é sempre uma excelente forma de organizar este género de livros, uma vez que tendem a ser extensos e com vários núcleos diferentes. Em relação às personagens não tenho nada de negativo a apontar. Gostei de conhecer as novas personagens, ficando bastante curiosa quanto às Irmãs da Luz e às Irmãs das Trevas, que tem um papel de grande destaque neste livro e, seguramente, nos próximos. Fiquei muito curiosa em relação ao seu objetivo e à sua história, bem como à divisão entre Mundo Novo e Mundo Velho, que anteriormente ainda não tinha aparecido.

Também gostei muito do enredo. Mais crescido e desenvolvido do que o livro anterior, nesta primeira parte a história apresenta-se logo no início com muita ação e emoção. Tendo em conta o final do primeiro livro (original), seria de prever que esta história seria um tanto mais calma e de ligação para algo novo. De facto, serve de ligação, mas não é nada calma e deixa tudo em aberto. As personagens, que no início do livro tinham um caminho traçado, logo veem os seus planos alterados com a chegada de novas personagens e novos acontecimentos. Isso faz com que a história seja bastante fluída e emocionante. Também é mais crescida no que diz respeito aos temas abordados. Deixamos de ter uma narrativa de viagem ou de aventuras, parecida em alguns aspetos com tantas outras (O Senhor dos Anéis ou A Roda do Tempo), para algo mais negro e sinistro. Existem imensos monstros estranhos e temas obscuros, em especial relacionados com as novas personagens. Isso também deu um novo animo à história.

A escrita é muito fluída, como já referi. As descrições não são em grande número, mas são na medida certa para a história e para o seu contexto. Gosto especialmente de todos os momentos em que é possível ficar a saber mais sobre a História deste mundo, as suas culturas, tradições e passado, que é bastante rico. A ação é constante o que torna a leitura bastante compulsiva, pois está se sempre a querer saber o que vai acontecer a seguir. Ou seja, tem tudo o que um bom livro de Fantasia deve ter: magia, ação, emoção, aventura, amor...entre outros ingredientes.

Em suma, gostei imenso do livro e vou querer ler muito em breve a segunda parte. Ai terei uma ideia mais formada sobre o livro no original, uma vez que está dividido, mas a ideia está feita: o livro é excelente! Recomendo a todos.5-stars favorites1 Beatriz360 162

Primera parte del segundo libro en inglés de la saga, tercero de la saga en español (no entiendo porqué se empeñan en exprimirnos los bolsillos los editores españoles).

En este libro se plantean los nuevos problemas a los que Richard y Kahlan tienen que enfrentarse. Desde mi punto de vista, los momentos en que Richard y Kahlan están juntos son bastante pastelosos (y puede que aburridos). Pero afortunadamente los problemas hacen que se separen y que la acción siga su ritmo.

Este libro nos deja con la miel en los labios, dejando la trama bien calentita para el siguiente: "La Amenaza del Custodio".1 Vanessa Montês700 26

4,5**

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Para além das personagens já conhecidas, outras são apresentadas, na sua maioria personagens que só fazem a vida negra aos nossos, já conhecidos, protagonistas. Mas se pensam que tal os impede de seguir em frente enganam-se. Estes continuam fortes, determinados e querem livrar o seu mundo de todo o mal. Uma missão que não se revela de forma alguma fácil.

Um livro que adorei, ainda mais do que os anteriores!! Estou cheia de vontade de ler a segunda parte deste título, que já se encontra na minha mesa de cabeceira. Mais que recomendado.

Opinião em http://blocodedevaneios.blogspot.pt/2...meu1 Vera Neves (Sinfonia dos Livros)694 43

Opinião em breveapoios-parcerias livros-na-minha-estante1 Özgür41 6

Yazar?n bazen gerizekaliya anlat?r gibi her?eyi tekrar tekrar anlatmas? d???nda ho?tu. Bir karakterin o an ne yapt???n? anlat?rken birinci kitapta bu böyle yapm??t? sonra ?öyle olmustu sonra ?öyle hissetmi?ti diye defalarca tekrar etmesini k?n?yorum. Bazen içimden Allah'?n? kitab?n? seversen gec bunlar? dedi?im oldu. Yahu bir karaktere önceki maceralar?n? anlat?rken (ki okumusuz biz bunu baya her detay?n? biliyoruz) olaylar? en ba??ndan anlatmas? sinirlerimi y?pratt?. k?s?m 2yide bitirince seriye b? süre ara vermem gerekecek san?r?m bu gerilmelerim yüzünden.3 Anna Brondolo134 1 follower

Terzo capitolo della saga della Spada della Verità… l’avventura prosegue con nuovi personaggi e scenari da scoprire… anche in questo caso si nota come tutte queste novità siano frullate nella testa dell’autore tre secondi prima di sedersi davanti al pc e sicuramente non mentre scriveva i capitoli precedenti… un altro fatto che mi ha infastidito è l’eccessiva crudeltà che permea alcune pagine… l’avevo notato anche nel secondo libro, ma qui si esagera per i miei gusti (e se lo dice una che legge il manga di Berserk…) Sergio38

Segunda entrega de la mejor saga de fantasÍa que he leído, dejando a salvo El Señor de los Anillos, claro está. kerem43

Do?ruluk K?l?c? serisinin ikinci (teknik olarak üçüncü) kitab? Gözya?? Ta??’nda, ya?ayanlar ile ölüler dünyas?n? birbirinden ay?ran perdenin y?rt?lmas?yla etrafa saç?lan kötülük ile mücadele ba?l?yor.

Gözya?? Ta??, ilk kitab?n bitti?i yerden ba?l?yor, arada bir günlük bile zaman bo?lu?u yok. Serinin genelinde bu ?ekilde oldu?u için kitaplar?n birbiri ard?na bekletilmeden okunmas? daha iyi oluyor.

Kitab?n ana konusu ilk kitaptaki zaferin sarho?lu?unda olan Richard'?n çok geçmeden daha büyük bir tehditle kar??la?t???n? anlamas? ve yeni yeteneklerini kontrol etmeye odaklanmas? üzerine.

Ana üç kahraman?m?z?n kitab?n genelinde birbirinden ayr? dü?mesi nedeniyle her birinin kendi at?ld?klar? maceralar? okumak güzel olsa da üçünü bir arada okumay? özlüyorsunuz.

Dizi ile paralellik aç?s?ndan birkaç ?eye de?inecek olursam..
Kitapta inan?lmaz büyük bir yer edinen çamur adamlar?n dizide hat?rlad???m kadar?yla hiç olmamalar? çok ilginç. Çamur adamlar?n köyleri, çamur adamlar?n adetleri, çamur adamlar?n atalar?, ayinleri, ?enlikleri... haklar?nda sayfalarca aç?klama okuyoruz.
Di?er bir konu ise gözya?? ta??... Dizinin ikinci sezonu bu ta??n didik didik aranmas? üzerine kurulu iken, kitapta ta??n aranmas?na yönelik herhangi bir çaba yok, sebebi ise daha ilk bölümde anla??l?yor.
Ve Cara... ?kinci sezonun y?ld?z karakteri Cara bu kitap boyunca yok, Cara haricinde ya?ayan herhangi bir ba?ka mord sith ile bir kar??la?ma da bulunmuyor.

Dizide oldu?unu hat?rlamad???m karakterlerin geçmi?lerine dair detaylar (özellikle Adie), Kahlan'?n ailesine dair dizi ile çeli?en bilgiler, Kehanetler Saray? ve ???k rahibeleri hakk?ndaki k?s?mlar? okumak ilgi çekiciydi. Tabii birkaç göz devirmesine sebep olan saçma bölümler yine vard? fakat az?nl?kta olduklar? için dört y?ld?z veriyorum. Helena Rodrigues (Aromas de Cor ~ Livrólicos de Cá e de Lá)368 12

Neste volume, apesar da derrota de Darken, temos um acontecimento avassalador, o véu que separa o mundo superior é rasgado, dando acesso às mais vis criaturas ao mundo dos vivos.

Claro que o maestro destas acções só pode ser Darken Rahl, que faz uso de um poder ainda mais negro para dominar o mundo dos mortos. O seu objectivo é dominar ambos os mundos, mas que o poderá deter? Será Richard, que com os seus poderes a despontar e a desenvolverem-se, o único capaz de deter está foca do mal avassaladora. agora ao serviço de um poder ainda mais sinistro, que pretende estender o seu domínio sobre os mortos também aos vivos, aprisionando-os num limbo eterno.

O livro é pautado por aventuras, por uma escuridão nunca vista e que ensombra os nossos heróis e alguns novos aliados. Estou desejosa que venha o próximo livro! Lena Targaryen1,048 464

Genial, creo que esta saga va mejorando libro a libro, y me ha dejado con todas las ganas del siguiente (porque en la edición original se supone que 3º y 4º son uno mismo, y se nota).
La dejé reposar un tiempo, y después de ver la 2ª temporada de La leyenda del Buscador, algunas cosas si que son iguales a la serie, otras mejores, y otras simplemente distintas, pero como ya solo tenía un vago recuerdo de la serie, he disfrutado aún más de su lectura.
Ains, qué me encantan Richard, Kahlan y toda la fantasía y magia que hay en esta saga ^^ Jesus Espinosa45

Esta primera parte del 2 libro muestra lo cruel que es la guerra y lo ilusos que podemos ser al creer que una vez muerto Rahl el Oscuro todo el mundo estaria contento y habria paz.
Si bien me ha resultado bastante lento en algunas ocasiones se debe dejar pasar ya que esta estableciendo las rutas que tomara la historia con sus tan detalladas descripciones de las escenas, en algunas partes excesivas para gente sensible pero necesarias para comprender lo cruento de la situacion.

Una vez lea la segunda parte tendre una opinion mas fundamentada. Jay Luís14 1 follower

Fantástico adoro a maneira como tudo se envolve a criação do mundo é fantástica
É daqueles livros que é pegar e não conseguimos largar até terminar e as pequenas lições de vida que conseguimos transpor para a nossa realidade são fantásticas Anduim76 2

En la línea de los dos anteriores. Espero que el cuarto no se convierta en un peñazo, como me ha pasado con otro par de sagas al pasar del segundo o tercer volumen. Sandra Sánchez29 6

Este me ha costado más que los otros dos. El final se hace algo pesado. read-in-2015 Gridcube133 5

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Not as good as the first book but I still loved it

Happy Reading!

Mel ??fantasy-all own123 s Gavin953 413

My 2019 reread of the Sword of Truth continued with Stone of Tears and I'm happy to say the reread is going well so far as I quite enjoyed this one. Despite its flaws and Goodkind's crazy morality this still proved to be a fun and engaging 1990s style fantasy epic. It had a great mix of fun magic, intriguing characters, and a plot that was interesting enough to hold my attention from start to finish with very few dull spots or lulls. Pretty impressive considering the audio for Stone of Tears is 38 hours long!

I've prattled on about the strengths and weaknesses of the SoT series and Goodkind as an author in my review for Wizard's First Rule so I'll not bother to do so again in this one but I will say that while I never understood the WoT comparisons while reading WFR I can see why they are thrown Goodkind's way after reading Stone of Tears. The introduction of The Keeper as an enemy and the Sisters of the Light/Dark into the story definitely felt they were things inspired by the success of WoT. Not that I'm saying those things were bad! Goodkind might have borrowed a few WoT ideas but he still managed to weave a fairly original tale that felt consistent in tone and feel with the first book in the series.

The story in this second book was actually quite engaging. With Darken Rahl gone both D'Hara and the Midlands are in turmoil. Into the void a few new enemies appear. The biggest threat comes from the Keeper of the Underworld. He has gotten a bit bored with his eternal imprisonment and wants to escape to the world of the living to inflict a bit of eternal suffering and torture on everyone. It is up to Richard to stop him but he has problems of his own as he has no idea how to control his wizard powers and will die unless he can find a way! Kahlan had her own task in this one as her days of fun gallivanting with Richard were over as she had to get back to her day job of being Mother Confessor and start trying to whip the Midlands back into shape. A task a lot harder than it sounds since she has no wizards or fellow confessors left to help her. To make matters worse the lands are starting to bicker with each other at the worst possible time as a new enemy has arrived and is seeking to rule all the lands.

The story was a lot more fun than it sounds and it was easy to get caught up in Richard and Kahlan's struggles as they got themselves caught up in plenty of adventure and intrigue as they sought ways to defeat the various threats that had arisen to oppose them.

The weird thing about the SoT series is the fact that I usually find myself rooting for Richard and Kahlan even though their morals are pretty fucked up. I felt Kahlan went off the deep end a bit in this one so I've no idea why I'm still a fan of hers. I'm sure I'd savage characters that did the stuff she did in this one if it happened in most other books so I've no idea why I always seem able to give Richard and Kahlan a pass. Perhaps Goodkind is just that engaging a writer or perhaps I just view him as that insane that it lets me give his characters a pass as I just roll my eyes and try to ignore the worst of the Goodkindisms in the tale!

All in all I had a great time with this 2019 reread of Stone of Tears!

Rating: 5 stars. It has its flaws but I'm just going to go ahead and leave my 5 star teen nostalgia rating intact. This series used to be my absolute favourite and it turns out even a reread cannot taint my fond memories of my early reads all that much. As it happens I found Stone of Tears super readable and quite engaging even this time around so it would have earned a 4-4.5 star rating from me anyway!

Audio Note 1: The official version of the series was narrated by Jim Bond. He is not awful but does not bring the story to life and actually manages to make it sound a bit boring with the way his narration drones on.

Audio Note 2: The NLD version of this series was narrated by Nick Sullivan. He gives a pretty good performance and manages to breathe life into the story. Why they never went with him for the official versions is beyond me!fantasy45 s Choko1,304 2,640

*** 4. 25 ***fantasy40 s Ahmad Sharabiani9,564 148

Stone of Tears (Sword of Truth #2), Terry Goodkind
Stone Of Tears is the second book in Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth. With Darken Rahl defeated, Richard and Kahlan head back to the Mud People to be married. As they wait for their wedding day to approach, they discover three Sisters of Light are pursuing Richard, intending to take him back to the Old World to be trained as a Wizard. Additionally, unbeknownst to Richard and Kahlan, the veil has been torn and the Stone of Tears has entered the world. According to prophecy, the only person who has a chance at closing the veil is the one bonded to the blade, the one born true. After the death of Darken Rahl and planning his wedding to Kahlan, Richard is afflicted by a series of painful headaches. He also learns from Shota that he is the bastard son of Darken Rahl and the grandson (on his mother's side) of Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander. Richard gets a visit from three Sisters of the Light (Sisters Grace, Elizabeth and Verna), who inform him that his headaches are caused by the awakening of the gift within him and are fatal and unstoppable, unless he receives magical training. The Sisters tell him that he must go with them and wear a Rada'Han, a magical collar, in order to control his headaches and the gift. They also explain that they will offer him their help three times, and, if he refuses each time, they will not be able to help him ever again. Richard refuses twice, and each time a Sister commits suicide. ...

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Richard: we've gone from children being brutalized to the very depths of psychosexual sadism and perversion, including copropilia and yes, a little bit of pedo/necrophilia too
Mike: pedo AND necro?
Richard: yeah
Mike: at... the same time?
Richard: yes. I feel genuinely guilty reading this book
Mike: .....
.......
Richard: it's unbelievable
Mike: Dammit amazon, why don't you have same-day shipping?
Richard: it's a book they would sell to children without carding them, but if GTA gets sold to a kid it's horrible
Mike: haha
GTA4 is supposed to be excellent, incidentally
Richard: so i have heard
Mike: but i don't even know what platform its for
Richard: i bet it doesn't have pedonecrophilia, though, and i didn't even mention the bestiality yet, or, even worse, the masochism connected with all of this.
I'm really shocked by the series
Mike: ......!
Richard: and i am just on book 2 of 11
Mike: good lord
maybe he's trying to scare people off
Richard: i am genuinely hoping the characters die and die soon
Mike: ...
uhhh
Richard: because their lives are unspeakable
Mike: "Richard: i am genuinely hoping the characters die and die soon
and yes, a little bit of pedo/necrophilia too"
So maybe you hope they grow up ... and then die?
Richard: when the characters get into life threatening situations, I don't feel dramatic tension
i feel hopeful, maybe a happy ending is finally in reach!fantasy33 s J.G. Keely546 11.1k

It is always curious to see fantasy authors who don't consider themselves to be fantasy authors. Case-in-point: Terry Goodkind. The former landscape painter has told us how he isn't a fantasy author in every interview he's ever given:

"The books I write are first of all novels, not fantasy, and that is deliberate; I'm really writing books about human beings."(1)

"To define me as a fantasy writer is to misunderstand the context of my books by misidentifying their fundamentals."(2)

"The stories I'm telling are not fantasy-driven, they're character-driven, and the characters I want to write about could be set in any world. I'd to address a broader audience."(3)

""What I have done with my work has irrevocably changed the face of fantasy. In so doing I've raised the standards. I have not only injected thought into a tired empty genre, but, more importantly, I've transcended it showing what more it can be . . ."

Then the interview usually devolves into a discussion of Ayn Rand and 'the meaning of art', just in case you missed the pretension of declaring fantasy books 'not fantasy!'

The guy certainly has a chip on his shoulder, but it makes me wonder whether he has actually read any fantasy. He doesn't seem to realize that the things he claims separate him from fantasy are fundamental parts of how modern fantasy works. A novel that's fundamentally about character interactions with a magical setting? How droll. Goodkind doesn't reinventing the novel; he doesn't even reinvent the fantasy novel, he just twists the knobs to get a little more steam out of it.

Michael Moorcock critiqued Tolkien as a false romantic, which is rather apt considering that his love story takes place almost entirely in absentia (prompting Peter Jackson to infuse some extra loving with a hot, elven, psychic dream sequence). Most fantasy authors rectify this by having the girl come along for the journey. Goodkind s to keep the separation for much of the story as our hero tries to seek her out across a continent (though she is often just in the next room! Oh! What a tragic coincidence!)

Actually, after the first time it's just an annoying and painfully artificial way to try to hold off the conclusion for another hundred pages. It's a good thing Terry doesn't have to rely on magical or artificial means to keep his stories fresh!

The rest of the time, the hero finds the girl and lovingly transfixes her on his mighty sword. No, really. I'm not sure why these authors always end up feeling as if they have to dump their sex fetish issues at this particular juncture: "Huh, I dig BDSM. Maybe I should confide my fantasies in a book for mass publication".

I cannot think of a single female character in the entire series who isn't either raped or threatened with rape. If you want to give me an example of one, remember: I'm counting magical psychic blowjob rape as rape. I wish I never had the opportunity to qualify a statement with 'don't forget the psychic blowjob rape'.

I don't mind actual BDSM literature, but I'd rather have my own reaction to it than be told "isn't it totally dirty and wrong!? (but still super sexy, right?)" Porn for porn's sake is fine, but remember, Goodkind isn't some escapist fantasy author, these are 'real stories about real people' so he has to act his magic porn is somehow a reflection of real life.

Goodkind's books are cookie-cutter genre fantasy, but the first few aren't that badly done, and if you people narrowly missing one another, bondage, masochism, rape, and dragons, it might work for you, but the series dies on arrival part-way through, so prepare for disappointment.

If you are enjoying the series, you should probably avoid reading any of his interviews, as he rarely misses an opportunity to claim that he is superior to all other fantasy authors, and never compare him to Robert Jordan, because

"If you notice a similarity, then you probably aren't old enough to read my books."(4)

Goodkind truly lives in his own fantasy world if he thinks his mediocre genre re-hash is 'original' or 'deep'.

Then again, I've never met an adherent of Ayn Rand who didn't consider themselves a brilliant and unique snowflake trapped in a world of people who 'just don't understand'. The Randian philosophies are also laid on pretty thickly in his books, but at least he found a substitute grandmother figure to help him justify his Gorean sex-romp as 'high art'.

All in all, he's just another guy who s to hear himself talk. Despite what he says, nothing separates his work from the average modern fantasy author, and them, his greatest failing is the complete lack of self-awareness that overwhelms his themes, plots, and characters.

My Fantasy Book Suggestionsamerica childhood fantasy ...more25 s Aela 13 23

This book is monsterous - considerably longer than the first book of the series, Wizard's First Rule -almost 1000 pages long. Needless to say, I never once found it boring,dull,or droning on and on. Every page and chapter in the book added something to the plot and the continuing saga of Richard and Kahlan.

The story starts right from the same time when Wizard's First Rule ended, not having to explain months or years of events that the reader didn't get to, well, read about. That always annoys me when a series does that. So far, this series is made all the better because it hasn't done that.

In this book, even more than the first one, I noticed that Goodkind switches to the point of view of several other side characters - and in some cases, different villans. However, this really adds a lot more depth to the book. I to have different perspectives on events - it just makes the book seem all the more interesting. Some of my favorite side characters were introduced - including Sister Verna, one of the Sisters of Light. I identified most with her because she is the tempermental, strong-willed kind of lady who is just trying to do her job, yet Richard (known as Richard With the Temper amongst the Mud People - and for good reason) is constantly been a stubborn ox and arguing with her about everything. Of course, I understand Richard's point of view as well. He's already half-denying that he has the magical gift,yet of course he does - but in addition he has to leave his love, Kahlan and journey to a far-off place without marrying her as planned!

Cutest character - a baby gar that Richard almost kills, but seeing the way it cries and looks up at him with those big eyes, decides to leave it be. He ends up befriending the gar, Gratch, who follows him around as a loyal friend. Awwww!?

I also loved Warren as a character. He's the shy, mousy sort of guy who is always made fun of. However, Richard sees him as a friend and important ally, since Warren can decipher the confusing prophecies that name Richard as the "bringer of death".

And Richard certainly lives up to his title. He seems to be really accepting his role as the Seeker, and now a wizard, in this book. At times it seems he is always intense, focused, sometimes insulting to people, and making threats to those who may count themselves as his enemies. But what really made the book interesting was how Richard seemed to be able to do everything, any challenge -including things that nobody else had done for thousands of years. Yet, he always attributes his accomplishments to luck, chance, or foolish superstitions and stories.

At the same time, I found Kahlan's story intriguing - especially with the addition of Chandalen as a stubborn and usually insulting side character. He becomes loveable though, especially when he and the reader are able to recognize how Kahlan is not only a strong woman, but a fierce war leader as well.

And the ending - well let's just say it was satisfactory - for the reader and the characters. I'm still in love with this series and am looking forward to the third book.fantasy26 s Kara Babcock1,991 1,435

This book was bad. I found parts of it way better than the first book, Wizard's First Rule, and parts of it abysmal. The only saving grace was the fact that I'm a sucker for crowning moments of awesome, and this book has quite a few.

Richard seems to be turning into a Mary Sue (or Marty Stu, if you have it that way). Don't get me wrong--I love to torture a character, rip away his world, and do bad things to him in general. But you need to make them stick. When you send someone through this pain and they emerge completely whole and happy, what's the point? So far Richard seems to be a rather static character. Yes, he's learning more magic, but he's still a headstrong idiot.

Massive trigger warning (although I don’t know how you could learn about these books without being warned about this before now) for rape in this book. , every second chapter Kahlan gets raped. That is … wow.

Weighing in at 979 pages, this book is a doorstopper that could have been edited down to a respectable 500-600. Parts of it were unnecessary, adversely affecting the pacing of the entire story. By the end, I just--well, I wanted it to end.

The story has merit. The characters are likable (not loveable). With some effort, I find the books enjoyable. But they could be better.2008-read borrowed fantasy23 s Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany)2,485 4,105

4.5 stars

2022 Reread: This was a lot of fun. I definitely think this is a much better book than Wizard's First Rule in terms of pacing, writing, and plot.

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The last time I read Stone of Tears I was a teenager, so it has been a long time! I have to say, despite some issues I mostly had a good time with this. The Sword of Truth series isn't groundbreaking by any means, but it's escapist fantasy fun with plenty of magic, plot twists, and characters I adore. (Richard, Kahlan and Zed top that list!). The characters are put into seemingly impossible situations, but good always manages to triumph.

We occasionally get Goodkind inserting some of his philosophical views in an eye-rolling way, but the plot generally makes this a page-turner and Richard is just the sweetest of all cinnamon rolls. In this book he must come to accept his wizard side, and will go through a lot to get there. Prophecy also plays a role again, and I always find that to be a fun element of the story. We meet the Sisters of the Light and Sisters of the Dark, and Richard must face his deepest fears. For the most part, I really enjoyed my time with this book. However, there is one very big exception that should be discussed.

The biggest issue I had was the frequent use of sexual assault of women as shorthand for evil. I will be getting into this in more detail below. But before I get into it, I will just say that for some readers, the content I describe would be enough not to want to read the book. And that's completely valid. For me, it did somewhat detract from it, but this is also a nearly 1k page book and there was so much of it that I loved regardless. But it's something to know going in.


****MILD SPOILERS AHEAD******


I will say I hadn't remembered how frequently r*pe and attempted r*pe happen in this book. From wartime violence to a means of degrading women during a coup, there we get numerous scenes with varying degrees of description. This might be a character coming upon the aftermath of a city being sacked where most of the women were sexually assaulted and murdered, a scene of a character being put in a situation where she is going to be assaulted but it fades to black, a scene where a character has been assaulted numerous times and is expecting it to happen again, and in perhaps the worst of it, we get a pretty graphically described scene of Kahlan experiencing assault and attempted r*pe. In addition, there is a character who is pregnant as the result of an assault and Sister Verna tries to convince her to keep the baby and not blame the sins of the father on the child. It's still framed as a choice, but it's kind of a lot. There are other examples but those are the major ones that stand out. Obviously this book came out in 1995 and the conversations happening at that time were very different, AND it's worth noting that Richard (our paragon of morality) is deeply repulsed by this kind of behavior, refuses to use women in this way, and even resists an open invitation from a woman who is not Kahlan. Still...it's pretty intense and worth knowing what you're getting into.

Alongside this, I noticed that promiscuity in women tends to be associated with being evil. It's not totally puritanical about it, as sex in a loving or affectionate relationship seems fine, and Zed has women flirting openly with him and it's not treated as a negative. HOWEVER, there is a pretty horrifying, graphic scene showing how the Sisters of the Dark are able to take in male magic (and we could talk about how having male and female Han or magic that are generally incompatible doesn't hold up great today either). But this is achieved through a violent ritual where the woman lets a monster with a barbed phallus have sex with her. Yep. I had forgotten about that one too. And the Sisters of the Dark encourage a novice to use her body to seduce Richard, and that choice does not lead her down a good path.

*sigh* I can't remember if things get better later in the series, but I definitely think these things were overused in Stone of Tears and some of it was difficult to read. If it wasn't for that, on enjoyment this could probably be a 5 star read for me, even if I don't think this is the highest quality version of fantasy. I still love a lot about it.audible-library tor-tordotcom24 s Andrew34

I honestly made it only halfway through the book before I had to put it down. The story was dragging on by the time I put it down. I already could tell that things the marriage would not take place for a very long time. The return of Darken Raul I thought to be kind of lame. It seems the author is already trying to milk the story for more books, rather than push a stronger plot.

The final straw was the grotesque perverse explicit sex. I thought form reading the first that I could see where Goodkind was drawing the line at what he would put in the book. I was regretfully very wrong. I did find the irony funny that Goodkind goes to the trouble to create fake vulgarity, not even showing all of it, then goes on to show scenes of such perversion as to offend anyone with decency. I'm sure that as an author he views it his mission to offend everyone he can, and he has succeeded with this reader at least.This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.Show full reviewfantasy high-fantasy19 s Meels1,040 33

Okay, I'm going to have to give you all a little bit of background information before I can give my review of this book, so bare with me!

This last spring my husband and I decided to get another cat, a kitten to be exact. We already have two and knowing that this will probably label us the "crazy cat people" of the neighborhood we decide to go ahead and do it anyway. Our oldest cat is, well, a bitch and hates the sweet fat cat with a vengeance. Tas (aka The Fat Man) seemed a bit sad and we wanted to get him a kitten to play with and nap with and generally buddy around with. I insist on a rescue kitten, no pet store kittens, Larry agrees. So we find the most ADORABLE little (part I'm sure) main coon and bring her home. She's an extremely loving kitty that s to sleep right under my chin. That's where the first spot appeared. I hardly noticed it, other than the itching. I figured I'd been bitten by a bug...then I got one on my arm! I freak out and make an emergency vet appointment, which Larry thinks is a huge over reaction. Sure enough...the rescue kitten has ringworm! Apparently cats, when they have ringworm, produce spores and shoot them all over your house, bed, carpet, couch, blankets, pillows, hardwoods...anywhere they can manage to get to. These spores, according to the vet, are highly contagious and can live up to a year in you carpet etc. A YEAR! June, July and most of August is spent with our house quarantined. For weeks I am lathering up cats with lotions and shampoo. Have you ever tried to shampoo your cat? Well, if you have, imagine that you have to let the anti-fungal shampoo sit on them for 10 minutes before you wash it off. Yeah right. If you didn't already know, ringworm is actually a fungus, athletes foot...on YOUR FACE! Or, arms, legs, whatever. At one point I was going to work with at least 20 of those little round band-aids stuck all over my arms and legs. It was ridiculous, I was getting new spots every single day! I was obsessed with washing, mopping, vacuuming... when your kid brings home lice from elementary school. You know there was nothing you could have done to prevent it, you know you are a clean person, but everything feels...dirty. For weeks after the spots were gone and we'd shampooed the carpets I was still slathering Lotrimin on anything that remotely felt it might be an itch, just.in.case!

I said all that to say this, I would gladly go through that all again, start to finish rather than ever have to read this book again! It only gets two stars, because I am the biggest sucker that ever lived for a happy ending. In that, Mr. Goodkind (Oh, the irony of that name!) did not disappoint. It was as happy and icky sweet as you could possibly ever want and more.

I'm pretty sure Mr. Goodkind has to be a closet sexual sadist. Nearly every woman in the book was either raped or nearly raped, someone attempted to rape her or promised to rape her but simply didn't live long enough. It started in the first book with the rape and torture, but this book took it to a whole other level. Torture is also a pretty constant theme, hence the sexual sadist rather than wanna be rapist. It got to the point that it was actually wearing on me, starting to annoy me and then even piss me off. His picture at the back of the book didn't help, it was the most smarmy, self important, arrogant picture I've ever seen of an author (that I can recall). Unfortunately I accidentally saw it rather early on in the book (all 900 or so bloody pages!) and I have to admit that it did taint my reading experience in a VERY bad way.

Photo of which I speak: http://aidanmoher.com/blog/wp-content...

Of course, he was horribly repetitive and overly descriptive, even more so than in the first book. I think that part of the reason I d book one so much better was that I hadn't yet seen the above photo and I had watched the entire first season of The Legend of the Seeker, a poor Sci-Fi Channel adaptation of the book and the book was so much better that it seemed not too bad. Unfortunately for the second book I wasn't able to stomach the second season of the show and therefore had nothing worse to compare it to.

You know how annoying it is when someone learns a new vocabulary word and insists on using it at every given opportunity until you begin to hate that person and by association that word? As if the word has some how done something to you, personally, offended you so grievously that you now loath that word and cringe when you hear it? Well, Mr. Goodkind, at some point around 200 pages in had this epiphany that if the word "invincible" meant immune to harm then "vincible" was just as good of a word for "vulnerable"! He used it so often that it once appeared twice in the same paragraph and three times on one page! I now completely hate the word "vincible" and eventually had trouble restraining myself from scratching it off the page!

What also occurred to me while reading this was that it read more a romance novel with some wizards 'n junk than it did a fantasy novel with some romance thrown in. The whole deal with the collar and "she doesn't love me anymore" boo hoo crap. Gah! I had to skip huge swaths at the end where he rambled on for a page of description for him getting from one end of the palace to the other. Who does he think he is Herman Melville?

Let me put it into context for you, Davey. If David Eddings (a contemporary fantasy writer of Goodkind) is The Cure, then Terry Goodkind is Julian Lennon. They're both English and were recording at the same time. One is fabulous and the other makes you want to claw at your own ears, or eyes in the case of Mr. Goodkind.

I read a review of his first book by this girl who's boyfriend wanted her to read it. Out of love for him she tried, but said that she would rather "smell her dogs breath and then lick his teeth than read that book". I anorted. I now know exactly how she feels.beware-author-learned-a-new-word fantasy magic-witches-wizards-warlocks ...more16 s Igor LjubuncicAuthor 17 books250

This is my favorite SoT book. I've read it three or four times in my late teens. And then I made a mistake and tried reading it again in 2014. A lot has changed in 15-20 years. But this review is based on how I felt reading this thing back then.

I even remember the day I bought the book. I stepped into a store and saw the lovely Tor cover. There was Richard, Sister Verna (is that her name), or is it Kahlan, and that garr thingie.

I opened one of the pages at random, and it was the scene when Richard encounters the garr's mother and slays her. In the middle of the page, it read:

Blood flies.

That one sentence hooked me back then, until I shattered my memory with a 2014 reading. My advice to you book worms out there, let your childhood classics rest, they probably won't turn as good as you remember them.

And no limericks for you today, I'm gonna keep them for later books in the series, because they surely deserve them more. Oh, I did confuse books 6 and 8 when it came to writing my , but at that point in the series, it really makes no practical difference. Downhill is downhill.

But Stone of Tears is a solid one. Classic, epic, adventurous, and not to be read by cynics over 25 years of age.

Thanks for all the fish,
Igorfantasy terry-goodkind14 s Jessica50 10

Stone of Tears, much its predecessor in the Sword of Truth series, was an entertaining story written in mediocre words.

The whole of the book -- or at least every other page -- is filled with sensational imagery and description. Everything about the characters and the events is passionate, desperate, and extreme. It gets a little tiring.

Even so, I enjoyed reading how various prophecies unfolded in twisted ways, I loved the boyish friendship between Richard and Gratch, and I even wept at the conclusion of the sub-story of Adie and her Pell.

If you enjoy magic and danger, this book is a decent yarn to entertain you between more taxing literary challenges.fantasy13 s Laura1,148 53

Some of you may say that the writing is bad. I'd say not great but not bad either.
Some of you may say the characters are a bit whiny and the dialogues a little kiddish. I'd have to agree with that.

Then why the hell 5 stars?! you'll ask.

I'd say:


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