Severed Souls

Sword of Truth, Book 14

From Terry Goodkind, author of the Sword of Truth series, comes Severed Souls, a New York Times best selling novel of Richard Rahl, Kahlan Amnell, and their world.

From the far reaches of the D'Haran Empire, Bishop Hannis Arc and the ancient Emperor Sulachan lead a vast horde of Shun-Tuk and other depraved "half-people" into the Empire's heart, raising an army of the dead in order to threaten the world of the living. Meanwhile, far from home, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell must defend themselves and their followers from a series of terrifying threats, despite a magical sickness that depletes their strength and which, if not cured, will take their lives...sooner rather than later.

"Richard saw the point of a sword blade sticking out from between the man’s shoulder blades. He spun back toward Richard after throwing the woman out of the opening, ready to attack. It seemed impossible, but the man looked unaffected by the blade that had impaled him through the chest.

It was then, in the weak light from the fire pit off to the side, that Richard got his first good look at the killer.

Three knives were buried up to their brass cross-guards in the man’s chest. Only the handles were showing. Richard saw, too, the broken end of a sword blade jutting out from the center of the man’s chest. The point of that same blade stuck out from the man’s back.

Richard recognized the knife handles. All three were the style carried by the men of the First File.

He looked from those blades that should have killed the big man, up into his face. That was when he realized the true horror of the situation, and the reason for the unbearable stench of death."

©2014 Terry Goodkind (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Great book

Everyone for complaining about pronunciation you all missed the worst one. N i c c i is pronounced Knee-cee not Nikki! Other than thst awesome!

Cliff-Hanger much?

I do not want to give any spoilers aways but it ends in a cliffhanger and I am heartbroken.

Ugh

Loved the book but hated the ending. I hate cliffhangers with a passion! I can't wait to get to the next book. I won't say much more or I am fully likely to spoil it all!

Terrible start for narrator- smoothed out at ch 10

Where does Severed Souls rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The book and characters were good, but the narrator really drops the rank.

What did you like best about this story?

They finally killed of Abbot Drier, and the story shows the trader. I thought I figured it out in an earlier book, and I am glad I was correct.

Would you be willing to try another one of Sam Tsoutsouvas’s performances?

As I have said in previous reviews - I really have no choice if I want to listen to books in the Sword of Truth series. There is a few by other narrators that are not too bad, but Christina Traister is the best.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Yes, I was very shocked the first time I read that Zed (Richards grandfather) was murdered.

Any additional comments?

The Same as usual. I would really like to hear Christina Traister do the whole series.

love it!

I didn't want to stop listening. Kept me on the edge of my seat for hours.