Katherine 's Reviews > Faith of the Fallen

3,5 ✨ This volume felt like a meticulous and grand filler if such a thing can exist, but still a filler.

It was basically an opportunity to fully dive into the Order and show what it is that people need to fight against. Richard very strongly expresses that he does not want a faceless army marching against Jagang, he wants each of them to understand the importance of their lives and fight for them to the death.

Terry Goodkind took an incredible swing at communism from its start, its foundations, values, methods and finally its destruction.

The only other times I have seen this kind of mastery of a political system was in George Orwell's works Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm and Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.

The reason why its not a fully 5 star book for me was because the end was annoyingly cheezy and I wish Nicci's fate was different.

I mean, I understand Richard using his gift into his statue without realizing it but aren't all overacting a bit? I mean it’s just a fucking statue.

Also, having reached book 6 in the series, I wonder if at some point before this all ends if Richard will actually ever use magic??? Like real magic, not just his sword or self-discovery of wizard's rules? Otherwise please stop telling me every 5 minutes how rare it is to be a war wizard.

Finally a question I seem to be asking ever since the second book....Where in the old and new world is Nathan????