Temple of the Winds

Sword of Truth, Book 4

By: Terry Goodkind

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 28 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Book Four of The Sword of Truth, the series first begun in Wizard's First Rule, returns listeners to the world of Richard Cypher, a simple woods guide who never dreamed he would be named the Seeker of Truth and become caught up in magic, war, and dangers so extraordinary that the fate of his entire world would hang on his actions and decisions.

The dangerous, fanatical Imperial Order, under the leadership of the power-mad Emperor Jagang and his multitude of demonic underlings, unleashes a deadly plague. To find a cure, Richard Cypher and his beloved Kahlan Amnell must seek out the legendary Temple of the Winds, a fortress of evil sealed away for 3,000 years. But the path of the Seeker of Truth is never an easy one - even if he can reach the Temple at all, there is no guarantee he'll ever return.

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Great read!

Best book in the series this far. Much better narrator than the last two books. Satisfyingly addresses many unfinished story lines in the previous two books.

Best read than listened to

This is unfortunate to say because of my love for audiobooks but more research should have been done by the narrator or the producer should have stepped in to introduce character name pronunciations. It took several chapters to discover that "Collin" was actually Kahlan which continues to the end. Fortunately Adie was a minor character in this volume.

Dick Hill is a very talented narrator. The voices he gives to each character and his story telling skills are above average. Unfortunately for this series the mispronunciations where impossible to overlook for such an iconic story line that Terry Goodkind has developed.

learn the names

how can you just make up names and get away with it Collen? for 32 hours? really

narator issue

narator miss-pronounced the names of significant characters and that was a distraction, otherwise really liked

Everything but that

I love this book I looked the narrator other than the pronouncement one of the main protagonists names. it took me out of the story almost everything he uttered it. Everything but that was great.

Lacked Consistency

The performances lack consistency in proper names. however, it was still amazing! thank you

Mispronunciations drove me crazy

Overall it was good and the story was excellent as expected with the same rich characters becoming deeper and the addition of new characters with the same signature complexity I have come to expect from TSoT series. I loved this story so much. The narrator didn’t do a terrible job all in all. His range of voices and ability to remember and stick to using the same voices for the same characters was very good. However, I really wish he would have at least listened to the previous book just for consistency sake for the readers of the series as his new pronunciations for key characters was very jarring and painful to listen to throughout the book. I will say that at least it was only a few and not every single one. He is a good narrator, but just a little research would have made this an excellent reading.

names.

dude reading uses the wrong name the whole book for a main character. the k in kalin is hard not soft. hard to look past being the 4th continuation.

Not super impressed

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Yes because I like the seires!

What other book might you compare Temple of the Winds to and why?

The sword of truth: wizards first rule

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Dick Hill?

Not sure but one of the reasons I didn't particularly like his reading of this book is because of his pronunciation/interpretation. One of the main characters of the series, kahlan amnell, has her name mispronounced throughout the reading & I can't help but find it severely distracting! Most of the time I'm listening I'm trying to figure out who he's referring to when he's talking about when he refers to "Colin" (which is what I am hearing when he refers to "kahlan"). Though overall I do prefer his reading over the previous book I listened to in this series, it is very distracting for me!

great reader

did not appreciate the mispronounced names, but everything else was great. really made the story come to life!