Sword of Truth Series

Book #7

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Jennsen is considered a hole in the world. She has been running with her mother since she was six years old. She is the daughter of Darken Rahl. The Lord Rahl, from then, kept all the offspring from him that wasn’t gifted dead. He knew that there was something wrong with them and that magic couldn’t touch them in any way. Jennsen is now 20 and she thinks that Lord Rahl has found her again. She came across a D’Haran soldier with a note in his pocket that had her name on it.

Oba is also a hole in the world. He has lived a much altered life compared to Jennsen. Oba’s mother was resentful of having an ungifted child from Lord Rahl and Oba was the one she reacted to. Jennsen was loved more than anything by her mother. The one thing they had in common was they both heard a voice in their head. For a long time Jennsen thought that it was Lord Rahl. Oba just thought that he had a friend.

When Sebastian came along and helped Jennsen, she felt compelled to have him stay to relieve his fever. While there enjoying a fire, some D’Haran soldiers came in and killed Jennsen’s mother and Sebastian helped her kill them. She grew to trust him and knew that she needed to get to a sorceress to have a spell put back on her to hide again. One thing that Jennsen didn’t do was give into the voice in her head.

Oba did listen to the voice and felt invisible. He didn’t have to listen to his mother complaining and making him take concoctions made by a sorceress that made him sick and also being locked in a cage. He did whatever the voice told him to do and was well rewarded. He found out that he was an important person.

Jennsen travels around looking for a way to live her life with the help of her new love, Sebastian. She learns more and more including that Darken Rahl was killed by his son, Richard Rahl and that Richard, her half brother, has taken over the hunt for her. She holds so much rage and contempt for Richard and hasn’t even laid eyes on him. Sebastian fans that flame and takes her to the Emperor and the Imperial Order.

This book is my least favorite of this series. I like the story itself but it doesn’t have Richard in it or Kahlan for that matter until the end. Of course I can’t tell you the end but they are there. I did like some of the new characters like Tom and had a good surprise at the end when everything came together. I had a easy time of putting this down and a hard time picking it back up. You should read this in order to have read the entire series but not the greatest book. I just enjoy Richard more than any other character, so I was disappointed to have so little of him and going through the majority of these pages without him.