Carole's Reviews > The Omen Machine

I'd advise fans of Terry Goodkind and The Sword of Truth to not bother to read this. I'm not even sure that Terry Goodkind wrote it. Apart from the fact that some of the major plots in the book didn't even come close to a conclusion, Terry Goodkind seems to have forgotten everything that made us love the previous books. Richard just makes up the answers as he goes along as his longtime advisers (Zedd, Nicci, Nathan) all appear to have been struck with moron disease. Kahlan, who was possibly the strongest female character to ever emerge from fantasy fiction, seems to have forgotten how awesome she is as she becomes on of those female characters we would all like to slap. The book takes place immediately after the events of the last Sword of Truth novel so how the characters are so different, I don't know, I don't think they are supposed to be but the fact is they are. The ending was perhaps the most disappointing of all. It was rushed and not explained properly. I can only assume that there are more books to come since the main bad guy didn't even make an appearance toward the end. Which only makes it more of a cop-out.

I think Goodkind has disrespected the fans big time with this half hearted attempt. I'm not saying every book that came before was awesome (we all remember Pillars of Creation, right?) but this one didn't leave me wanting more as I believe the terrible ending was supposed to.

Thoroughly disappointing and if I could give it less than one star I probably would.