Stone of Tears

Sword of Truth, Book 2

By: Terry Goodkind

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 38 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

An epic of awesome power from Terry Goodkind, the second installment of the bestselling series A Sword of Truth

Kahlan has at last gained the one goal she had always thought was beyond her grasp...love. Against all odds, the ancient bonds of secret oaths, and the dark talents of men long dead, Richard has won her heart.

Amid sudden and disastrous events, Richard's life is called due to satisfy those treacherous oaths. To save his life, Kahlan must forsake Richard's love and cast him into the chains of slavery, knowing there could be no sin worse than such a betrayal.

Richard is determined to unlock the secrets bound in the magic of ancient oaths and to again be free. Kahlan, alone with the terrible truth of what she has done, must set about altering the course of a world thrown into war. But even that may be easier than ever winning back the heart of the only man she will ever love.

War, suffering, torture, and deceit lie in their paths, and nothing will save them from a destiny of violent death, unless their courage and faith are joined with luck and they find the elusive...Stone of Tears.

Epic edge: listen to more in the Sword of Truth series.

©1995 by Terry Goodkind. (P)2004 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Great book but the narrator is terrible.

The first book, Wizard's First Rule was narrated by Sam Tsoutsouvas. He did a fantastic job. I didn't notice when I had bought this one that they had changed the narrator to Jim Bond. As any audiobook 'reader' knows the narrator can make or break a book. I am not at all impressed with this narration. Bond's normal reading voice is halting like being read to by a small child. He pauses in the middle of sentences then runs the last part of the sentence into the beginning of the next. His voices for the characters is also not the best. Zedd, the wizard read by Sam was funny and intelligent. Zedd, by Bond sounds like a Irish pirate who is unlikable. The book is great. I love Terry Goodkind and read the hard copies years ago. I am however struggling to make it through this narration. I actually stopped to check if he was the next narrator. Thankfully, he is not. Love The Sword of Truth series but this was a bad choice of narrator.

Horrible narrator

while I have read this book a number of times and enjoyed it thoroughly the narrator in this instance really does the book no justice. he has no inflection his timing is horrible the characters all sound the same it's as if he was bored and did not want to read this book. if you are not a fan of sci-fi fantasy then don't take the job to read a book you do not enjoy. I highly recommend you buy the hard copy to read.

A different narrator?

I'm not a huge fan of the series changing narrators. The story is amazing! But it took me a couple of weeks to forget how much more I enjoyed the first narrators voice over Jim Bonds. About to move on to the 3rd audiobook and yet another narrator!

Good book, didn't like the reading.

Love the book, reading sounded very monotonous at times and the pacing would vary making some parts and dialogues harder to follow.

great story

the reader has you hooked into the story line and always wanting more hard to put down.

Sounds to have been performed by a robot

The story is good. The performance, however, seems to be an effort to emulate the monotonous tones of robots from early science fiction stories.

great book

I did not like the new narrator but I absolutely love these series onto the third

Narration sucks

I absolutely love all these books! The narration was total crap... sounded like an electronic voice, didn't stop properly at commas and other punctuation and lacked almost any inflection. I will never listen to another book series that is narrated by this person.

horrible narrator

absolutely love the books but I can't stand this narrator's voice, he sounds like a robot 90% of the time

The narrator

I don’t care for the narrator that they got for this book. His voice sounds like he should be narrating a history book.