A review by bogdanbalostin
The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind

5.0

I am surprised at the negative reviews on this website of this book. It's not a brilliant book by no means, it's superficial and with a lot of going around and explaining stuff over and over. But that was unique with the Sword of Truth series. I would say the style is the same as in the other books but the editing is better. Instead of repeating 3-5 times we only have the same thing repeated 2 times. Improvement. The feeling is the same, I instantly knew I'm back in the Sword of Truth universe. My story with this series was hate-hate-love. The first books were so bad that I started to enjoy them. Especially Richard making stupid decisions again and again and using philosophy to justify them. Here, in the Omen machine, instead, we have less philosophy and preaching and more story (which is actually an exposition).