Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.
Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history.
When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.
Confessor (2007) 757 pages by Terry Goodkind.
Confessor is the eleventh and final book in the Sword of Truth series.
I finished Phantom and immediately started in on Confessor, and was at page 143 at 3am before I had to stop. What I'm saying is that Phantom did not finish the story. It wasn't a cliffhanger, but it was engaging.
There were a lot more refreshers, being that it had been twelve years since Wizard's First Rule was written. Enough so that we would remember Rachel, the Temple of the Winds, or whatever. There were a lot of discussions of magic, a couple about prophecy. The obligatory capture of one the good guys, capture of another, an escape of one, another taken prisoner, and so on. This led to Richard playing Ja La. Goodkind named it the game of life, and somewhere in there is a metaphor. He used the game as a mini version of the war, he used it to show Richard's strengths and moral values, he created a brutal game for a brutal people, and I think he just had fun writing those chapters.
And at the end Richard Rahl saves the world. Or does he? I guess you'll have to read the eleven books.
I read the books over the last 18 months, I don't think I would have wanted to wait twelve years especially between the last three, but other than the first two and the last three I read other books in between. Excellent series, there is a lot of brutality, but that is in contrast to Richard's value of life. The reading is quick, and I never got bogged down.