Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I have finally finished this mostly terrible, sometimes entertaining, always opinionated epic fantasy series.

Confessor (The Sword of Truth, #11) by Terry Goodkind

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Nothing happened for 70% of this book and then everything happened at once. I’m still not sure how I feel about this ending even though I finished it back in October, but it feels good to be done! I started reading the Sword of Truth in the summer of 2009, and have now finished it in fall 2020. That is a long-ass time. I’m sad to say for the corner of the internet that has looked forward to my reviews of these books, I will […]

It has taken me eleven years to get through this book.

Phantom (Sword of Truth, #10) by Terry Goodkind

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I mean, I’m being hyperbolic, because reading this felt like it took forrreevvver, but I’m also being literal. I started this series in summer 2009. It has never taken me so long to get through a series. I did the Wheel of Time in three years, and there are more books in that series, and the books are longer (mostly). So it is slightly weird that I’m so close to the end now. I’ve only got one more book left! I’m not doing any of […]

Only two more of these books to go! I hope someone gives me a medal.

Chainfire (Sword of Truth, #9) by Terry Goodkind

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Much to my surprise, this was actually pretty okay! Aside from the painful writing style, of course. After the past two books in the series have been not great (#7 was almost pointless in terms of the long-term arc, and #8 was one of the dullest things I’ve ever forced myself to finish; I couldn’t even bring myself to write a review), I wasn’t really expecting much from this book. Prior books in the series, even if I didn’t really like them, were always at […]

A 700 page detour away from the main plot and characters of the series.

The Pillars of Creation (The Sword of Truth, #7) by Terry Goodkind

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For those of you who started following me because of my reviews of this series, I apologize in advance. I finished this book over three months ago now, so my initial impression of the book has faded. Also, despite this being overall not great, I have very little ire for it. These two stars aren’t a result of outrage or ickiness like usual; they’re more the result of this book seemingly have very little relevance to the main plot of the series. But, good news […]

This is a series I am still reading.

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I have SO MANY THOUGHTS. For most of the time reading this book, I was pretty sure I was going to give it three stars. I haven’t given a Sword of Truth book three stars since the first one, which I read way back in 2009. (Knowing how the series turns out from there, I think that may have been an optimistic rating, and if I read it again now, I might round it down to two stars.) Then somewhere around the middle I was […]

The least terrible thing I’ve read from Terry Goodkind in years.

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Well, this was kind of clumsy, but I actually liked it? I’ll be honest, I’ve had such poor experiences with the last couple of Sword of Truth books, I expected more of the same here, and went looking for it. But this ended up being pretty harmless, and by the end, it actually had me engaged. Well, as engaged in this series as I have ever been, (which, by the way: engagement peaked in book one). So: haven’t enjoyed anything in this series this much […]



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