*spoilers ahead*
The second entry of Terry Goodkind’s sequel novellas to The Sword of Truth,
Children of D’Hara, continues where its precursors left off, with the
revelation that Kahlan, the Mother Confessor, is pregnant with a twin boy and
girl, having back in the preceding books lost her first pregnancy, and she
doesn’t want her husband, Richard, the Lord Rahl, to know, for fear that her
unborn would be vulnerable. The gifted of the People’s Palace are gathered in
hopes of combating the forces of the Golden Goddess, specifically the
phantasmal “scribbly men” and what are identified as “the Glee.”
One of the gifted’s ungifted daughter, Dori, proves significant among them, and
plays a role in the twists on in the story, which ends with the need of
Richard, Kahlan, and their gifted companion Shale, to use the sliph, which
helped Richard plenty of times back in The Sword of Truth novels. Ultimately, I
found this a fairly enjoyable, quick read, decently continuing the storyline of
Richard and Kahlan from the prior novels in which they starred, although there
are some odd stylistic choices such as referring to adversaries as “the Glee.”
Regardless, I will definitely read the next Children of D’Hara novellas.
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