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Rent Stone of Tears (Sword of Truth, Book 2)
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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: Aug 1996
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $12.99
Pages: 992
Synopsis
An Epic of Awesome Power
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.
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Reviews
I read this series years ago and liked it. Time to go through the series again, this time in audio. The first book was pretty good all the way around - some comical things in the audio reading, but not bad. This book... well, the book itself fits with the series and it is a good book, but the narrator is absolutely horrible. I've never looked at a narrator prior to adding a book to my queue, but I'm going to have to start now. This one is that bad. Listen to it if you need to bridge between books 1 and 3 in the series, but I suggest you read it instead of listening to it.
The narrating of this book is very dry. With that being said the story was very good, and without that I would not have been able to make it through it.
This review has nothing to do with the Terry Goodkind books. I just wanted to tell people how terrible Jim Bond is as a narrator. I mean - the worst. Ever. So please make sure you get an audio book that doesn’t have HIM as the reader. You will thank me for it. Jim Bond’s voice will lull you to sleep. It’s flat, dull, and most of the time I just had to laugh because he was so VERY bad at reading a story. His voice does not change for any characters or to display emotion of any kind. It’s one very long, albeit clear monotone voice. With Terry Goodkind books - that’s like a death sentence. They are involved and long and the last thing you want is someone like Jim Bond narrating them.