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A publishing event— #1 New York Times–bestselling author Terry Goodkind turns in a new direction and delivers a stunningly original thriller.
Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the midwestern United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him—and everyone he loves—into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence . . . In Alex, Terry Goodkind brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of high-octane thriller.
- Sales Rank: #542115 in Books
- Brand: Putnam Adult
- Published on: 2009-08-18
- Released on: 2009-08-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.00" h x 6.30" w x 9.30" l, 1.95 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 512 pages
- Great product!
From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Goodkind (Confessor) ventures into thriller territory with results sure to please fans of his fantasy fiction. In the opening pages, Alex Rahl, the book's unwitting hero, saves the beautiful Jax from being run down on the street in Orden, Neb., by a plumbing truck flying a pirate flag. Jax, who turns out to be from an alternate reality where evildoers are attempting to seize control of her civilization, has traveled to Nebraska to seek Alex's help in saving her people. In Jax's world, magic takes the place of technology, but on earth she's stripped of her powers and forced to fight armed with only her trusty dagger. The author takes his time setting all this up, but once the story gets rolling, it's a gripping ride as the bad guys whoosh in between their world, which remains unseen, and ours. Fantasy and thriller readers alike will find themselves swept along to the final confrontation and looking forward to the next installment. (Sept.)
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“Fast paced, riveting and scary. It will leave the reader breathless.”
--Nelson DeMille
“A gripping ride”
--PW
"Astonishing”
--Kirkus
About the Author
Terry Goodkind is a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
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110 of 129 people found the following review helpful.
Glad I borrowed it...
By A. M. Davidson
I was a big fan of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series... well let me qualify that. I was a fan of about the first five books and "Wizard's First Rule" is probably up there with a few others as an all-time favorite of mine. The Mord'sith were probably the single truely original idea in a series of rehashed quasi-Star Wars/Wheel of Time cliches. That being said, I was looking forward to a new Goodkind book, especially since he would be exploring a different genre. I love thrillers. When I heard there'd be a bit of magic. I was even more thrilled. I love urban fantasies and combined with a thriller, that's even better.
Sadly, Law of Nines is awful.
It's a rewrite of Wizard's First Rule except this time we're in the modern world instead of a fantasy world. Alex Rahl is Richard all over again. Jax is Kahlan. Some of the character descriptions and dialogue sound like passages from poorly written fan fiction. Furthermore, I really REALLY hoped that Goodkind got his fascination with Ayn Rand off his chest with the Sword of Truth series, but noooooo. We have to hear about it all over again in LoN. Here Goodkind had a chance to really start with a new idea, a fresh idea, a new hook, new characters, but he didn't.
If you are a rabid fan of Goodkind, you'll probably love this book, but if you just want a good story regardless of its author, you'll realize there are far better options out there. Brent Weeks "Night Angel Trilogy" is awesome and well written. I hugely enjoy Robb Thurman for her urban fantasy and clever, fast-paced dialogue. For something fun and different try "The Lies of Lock Lamora" by Scott Lynch (although I didn't like the second book as much, but the first is definitely stand alone). Carol Berg and her two-book series "Breath and Bone" and "Flesh and Spirit" are beautifully written and the story is fresh.
As much as I wanted Law of Nines to be a new Terry Goodkind story, it isn't. It's just another retelling of The Wizard's First Rule.
104 of 125 people found the following review helpful.
> Numbing
By Stoney
THE SETUP
"The Law of Nines" is a fantasy thriller, a sequel to "The Sword of Truth" series but set in THIS "real" world. It isn't necessary to have read the "The Sword of Truth" series, but if you have, you'll understand the rest of this paragraph. The thesis of the novel is that, in the ancient past, the people of the world of "The Sword of Truth" who did not have the gift of magic were expelled into THIS world, including a few members of the House of Rahl--the hereditary rulers of THAT world. Specifically that the process of magically "walling-off" the unmagical closed a connection between the two worlds, or perhaps split one world into two. "Parallel realities" or "alternate dimensions" if you prefer.
"The Law of Nines" begins when almost 27-year-old Alex Rahl, an artist, living somewhere in Nebraska, saves a mysterious woman, Jax from a truck which tries to run her down. A few days later on his birthday, Alex inherits a vast tract of land in Maine. That's the setup.
DEVELOPMENT
We later learn that the portal between the worlds is located on that tract of land in Maine, and that Alex is the only person who can open it. A new tyrant, Cain, in the "other" world has launched an essentially religious movement to eradicate magic, in order to gain power, but will need weapons and other technology to maintain his control (since he will also be deprived of the use of magic), and therefore wants the portal opened.
CRITIQUE
Numerous major and minor flaws in the novel demand considerable "suspension of disbelief". Unfortunately, "suspension of disbelief" is like stretching a rubber band---there are limits. When the limits of credulity are exceeded, and the rubber band snaps, the story ceases to entertain. Until now Goodkind has had the luxury of a "very stretchy rubber band". Logic is less expected in a fantasy (alien) world. In the same way, "aliens" on Star Trek can get away with terrible acting and stilted dialog, and come off as convincingly "alien" instead of simply awful. Alex and Jax simply do not show the same normal caution of even very adventurous normal human beings--they do irrational things, without considering the consequences.
The most obvious logical flaws flow from Goodkind's flawed premise: The "other" world is abandoning magic, which will require adopting technology from "this world". That means that "they" will need simple things like farming equipment, food preservation technology, medicine and virtually everything else we take for granted in "this" world. However, acquiring that technology (knowledge) would not necessarily require use of the portal. Cain already has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of "resident" agents in "this" world, who are able to easily travel back and forth between the worlds, WITHOUT using the portal. They can take any knowledge with them from "this" world to "that" world. More importantly, how could Cain have paid the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of "this world" merchandise that would be needed for the transition?
More fundamentally, the assertion that technology does not exist in "that" world is false. The level of technology in that world is the equivalent of the about the year 1800 in "this" world. They know metalworking, textiles, shipbuilding, fairly sophisticated construction, etc. That actually represents a fairly sophisticated level of technology (knowledge), accumulated over thousands of years. That's about the same level of technology in rural China in the 1960s. Beginning about 1980 China began serious importation of western technology (technical knowledge), and within 30 years have become an industrial giant, capable of manufacturing anything. The "technologicalization" of "that" world would have necessarily followed a similar path.
Nor is it realistic to believe that Cain could have extorted weapons and merchandise from "this" world. Note that all the material would have had to be exported via the portal, probably requiring highway construction, etc., which would have quickly revealed it's location. The U.S. military could have simply seized the mountain, and de facto, closed the portal. At best, Cain would have been faced with a stalemate.
I find it very strange that Goodkind (otherwise a proponent of rational economics) apparently has no understanding whatsoever of technology. Technology requires on a large population of technicians. Laugh at us geeks as much as you want---but you'd be living in caves without us. Technology cannot be "seized" or even bought by a non-technological society. Ship a laptop computer to someplace in the Congo, and it will be a worthless piece of garbage within a week. Ship modern weapons to "that" world, and they would jam up, gum up, and malfunction within days.
During the "Cold War" the U.S. freely sold very advanced military technology to 3rd world countries. The weapons were no threat to the U.S., because they could not be maintained without U.S. manufactured spare parts, tools, and technology. A billion dollars worth of military aircraft could become worthless within weeks of displeasing the U.S.
I was very intrigued by the initial premise (the connection between "this" world and "that" world), and even captivated by the first several chapters (which I found to be well-paced and captivating, not "slow" as another reviewer complains). I hoped to write a rave review, but I was sadly disappointed. The story had great potential, which Goodkind failed to realize.
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152 of 185 people found the following review helpful.
A thrilling page turner for both fantasy lovers & the non-fantasy lovers
By ChibiNeko
I'm going to be honest from the get-go. I've never read any of Goodkind's books before and I've never seen the tv show based off of his works. I'd heard of him but I've never had the time to pick up any of his works.
The reason I mention this is because I've heard two things about this book. One is that this book was supposed to be accessible to all people (even the ones who haven't read anything of his before). The other is that there is supposed to be a slight tie in with his Sword of Truth series, despite this book being a stand alone novel from his other works. Apparently it's supposed to be a nod towards the other series but as I've never read any of the other works I have no way of verifying this. Now if you were one of those people like me who was worried that you wouldn't be able to enjoy this book, put your mind at ease. For the most part you can easily read this book and enjoy it without reading his other works.
Now for the story itself. The story follows a young painter named Alex Rahl who discovers that his 27th birthday is going to bring him more than just another year older. He discovers several things- the first is that he has inherited a huge amount of land. The second is that a beautiful and mysterious woman named Jax is desperate to keep him safe. The third is that many different people also desperately want him dead. As Alex tries to save himself from danger and uncover the mystery surrounding the Law of Nines he'll also discover that his life isn't the only one on the line...
Now I know what everyone is thinking. Is this a fantasy or what? To be honest, it's a book that spans more than one genre. It's very much the thriller it makes itself out to be but it also contains several elements of fantasy in it. The book focuses more on the thriller elements than the fantasy elements, so if you aren't really that big of a fantasy fan then don't worry that you won't get into it. If anything the book somewhat resembles an urban fantasy novel than any of Goodkind's previous works.
The only complaints that I have are somewhat minor & really don't deter from the enjoyment of the novel. The first one is that it took a bit for me to get into the flow of the novel. Since the book straddles both thriller and fantasy it took me a little while to get used to the different elements. It was almost as if at times it couldn't decide what it really wanted to be & was a bit off putting at first. After I got used to the writing style though, I was hooked. The second complaint that I had is that I really wished that I could learn a bit more about the characters, especially the enigmatic Jax. The characters were for the most part well fleshed out, but there were so many unanswered questions that I wanted to know about. (So here's hoping for a sequel!) The third complaint really isn't a complaint at all, to be honest. It's just that at times I really felt as if I was missing out on something that I would have gotten if I'd read Goodkind's other works before reading this one. You don't have to read the other books to get & like the story, nor is the work constantly referencing his other works, but I get the impression that the experience would have been greatly enhanced if I did. Again, none of these are really complaints- just things that I wondered about as I was reading.
The only thing that really & truthfully got in the way of my book enjoyment was the slow beginning. It just seemed to take a little too long for anything to really get started & the book's flow just seemed a little muddled at first. Since this is Goodkind's first attempt at a non-hardcore fantasy, I'm willing to overlook that. It's not easy to write in a different genre, especially after you are used to one specific type of writing style. It just means that any future books like this will just get consistently better (or at least I hope so). It doesn't entirely excuse the clunky writing but I'm willing to overlook that for right now.
So in short, I liked this book. It took me a while to get used to the book's flow but once I did the book was great. I really recommend that anyone starting in on this book keep reading for at least the first 100-150 pages. It takes Alex a while to realize the danger he's in & act, but it's in keeping with the character. All in all, I think that it's a pretty darn good first attempt at writing a novel that isn't predominantly fantasy. Some may argue that this book isn't fantasy, but like one forum poster said on Goodkind's site- do we really need to label books by genre? Can't we just enjoy the ride & let the book take us where it will? I do have to say that I'd like to see a book by Goodkind that wasn't fantasy related.
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