Okay, so a poorly written review, I admit, and granted, I was biased going into this latest book - I thought Goodkind had jumped the shark with the Richard and Kahlan trilogy, introducing zombies (call them what you will, they ARE basically zombies), but bottom line is, I was not impressed. Daughter is rescued, and the day is saved. Neeson throws the bomb into the glass the water, Fox drinks it. Suddenly Michael J Fox goes into the diner, says boy am I thirsty.
The end? NO! The daughter reveals there is a micro bomb on the man, in his pocket (that is set to explode and kill everyone in exactly 7 seconds), which can only be deactivated if a man with Parkinson's swallows it, with, a glass of water (with two slices of lemon). We then get a 20 minute lecture by Neeson to his daughter, on what speeds one should eat, and how eggs can choke a man to death. The kidnapper, er- eats too fast, or something, chokes, and dies. Neeson tells the waitress to give the kidnapper the eggs.
At that moment his daughter's kidnapper walks into the diner (with the daughter, of course), wanting breakfast, in particular, eggs. The cook turns to return to the kitchen to start cooking the order, but suddenly a 2nd cook (who was revealed to have shown up there 5 minutes ago, due to a mix up with the shift roster) shows up with a plate of eggs, which he had just now made for another customer, who had to leave the diner. by a scene of the cook giving Neeson a 20 minutes explanation on why he cooks eggs the way he does. Neeson gives the waitress a 30 minute lecture on the origin of eggs. The waitress walks to Neeson, puts down a glass of water (with two slices of lemon), and then writes down his order of eggs. Imagine if the actual movie went like this: - After his daughter's kidnapping, Liam Neeson's character goes to a diner to get breakfast. To explain what I mean without spoiling the book, I want you to imagine the movie "Taken".
If often felt like the author had random elements he wanted introduce and a few serious loose ends to close off, but didn't know how to make a great story out of them, but thought he would just randomly throw them in there anyways. However the book itself I thought was poorly written, a contrived mess strung together by a series of long boring repetitive lectures from the characters, and constant uses of the Chekhov's gun and the deus ex machina mechanics. I loved the characters - always have, and always will, and it was a rush seeing Richard and the rest in this new book, as well as cameos by characters from previous books. Having been a huge fan of The Sword of Truth series over the years, it really breaks my heart to admit that this last story arc just isn't very good. For fans of the Sword of Truth series only.
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