Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, Jennsen seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin.

Richard Rahl and his wife, Kahlan, have been reunited after their long separation, but with winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, they must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter.

Exploited by those intent on domination, Jennsen finds herself drawn into the center of a violent struggle for conquest and revenge. Worse yet, she finds her will seized by dark forces more abhorrent than anything she ever envisioned. Only then does she come to realize that the voices were real.

Staggered by loss and increasingly isolated, Richard and Kahlan desperately struggle to survive. But if they are to live, they must stop the relentless, unearthly threat that comes out of the darkest night of the human soul. To do so, Richard will be called upon to face the demons stalking among the Pillars of Creation.

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22 hours and 19 minutes
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Terry Goodkind
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Jim Bond
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May 13 2008
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English
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Brilliance Audio
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	22 hours and 19 minutes
Author	Terry Goodkind
Narrator	Jim Bond
Audible.ca Release Date	May 13 2008
Publisher	Brilliance Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B072HZXF3V
Best Sellers Rank	#4,706 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #7 in Sword of Truth #224 in Action & Adventure Fantasy #385 in Epic Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals)

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Leperou Damien

good

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 29, 2023

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Esmerelda

Good moral descriptions

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 18, 2022

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Lots of descriptive prose. Pillars of the earth was not very well shown to be of importance to the story

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Félix-Antoine-Dumont

Missing pages at the end...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 1, 2018

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The book ends abrutly when they start laughing at Richard at the end. The sentence is not conpleted. Thank you

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Cathy M

Loved the series

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 31, 2020

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Another great book

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Keith Peck

The Sword of Truth goes missing in this one

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 21, 2016

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I like the story. On it's own it should be worth a 3-4 star rating, but... I've read the entire Sword of Truth series several times and sometimes I skip reading this book without noticing much of a difference.

If you are a Sword of Truth fan then you'll likely buy it. If you are unsure then try borrowing it from a public library and save yourself the disappointment that the figures who are the main characters in the series (Richard, Kahlan, Cara, Zedd, etc.) all play peripheral parts to this book.

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This book is mostly about Richard's completely ungifted sister Jennsen being tricked by an agent sent from Emperor Jagang. Oba, a male offspring of Darken Rahl is a secondary figure. Like Jennsen, Oba is also entirely ungifted but he provides a bit of twisted humour and insight into Drefan's insanity from book four: Temple of the Winds.

Poor Richard will apparently never have a brother who can resist the evil desires of the Keeper.

Near the end of the book Oba manages to steal the sword of Truth and kidnap Kahlan away from Richard. Richard and Cara then arrive in the last chapter to save the day for a helpless Kahlan, and also save their world from being unmade.

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Amazon Customer

It was great. Now to finish the series

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 21, 2018

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This was the 10 th book I believe in the series. It was great. Now to finish the series.

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David

Awesome

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 2, 2019

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Can’t put it down

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Lynn M

Where is Lord Rahl?

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 19, 2016

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At first I thought this book was just introducing new characters. But as I kept reading on and on, I was surprised to see that the main characters were nowhere to be seen until I was more than 80% through. No Richard and no Mother Confessor? I read all previous books in the Sword of Truth series and was disappointed with this one.

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Kenneth J. McDonald

Not his Best Work

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 26, 2011

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There is always a problem for epic fantasy writers to maintain the standard and at the same time balance the demand from publishers with deadlines etc. It now seems the norm for a good story to be stretched to 12 plus volumes and in the process quality is sacrificed. The first couple of instalments in this series, Wizards First Rule and Stone of Tears, were truly excellent however the standards have dropped as they normally do when a story is dragged out and padded to keep faithful followers on the hook. The author could have created a masterpiece in four or five instalments, instead we have several books in the series which fall well below the mark. Pillars of Creation, sadly falls into this category. Ths book could almost have been a stand alone until the last couple of chapters. Richard and Kahlan do not feature, other than by mention, for the first five hundred pages. The new characters just irritated me and I was hoping that they would be killed off. I felt cheated and just speed read the second half of the book. I seriously thought about giving up about a quarter of the way through the story. I appreciate that writers have to earn a crust and that it is hard to resist commercial demands. This is by no means the first time in the series where I have felt doubts over the direction of the story. Like an addict I will be reading the next book although I am fully prepared to give up if it fails to engage. Fingers crossed for the next instalment or should I just call in at the library for the last book in the saga and save time and money?

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Jen

The slowest story yet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 21, 2013

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I only started reading the Sword of Truth series earlier this year. May, to be exact, and since the first page of Wizard's First Rule I've been hooked on the fast-paced stories. I've been unable to put a book down.

Until The Pillars of Creation. My memory is taken back to Soul of the Fire: I at first thought the side story in said book an irritable distraction from the main story, but it soon turned into excitement and, ultimately, a worthy and interesting side story.

This is not the case with The Pillars Of Creation. Over a third of the way through the book and I'm wondering if this is really a Richard and Kahlan novel. Not a single main character has made an appearance, and only Richard has been remotely mentioned. I wouldn't mind if the story occupying such a length of the book was interesting, but it is not. It's slow, predictable and the characters have only made me yawn.

You'd think the Imperial Order had ceased to exist, their threat extinguished. A poor, boring addition to a previously addictive and action-packed series.

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Andrew Simpson

Very disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 23, 2001

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After reading all the other books in this series and finding almost every one a great book I expected a lot from this book, unfortunatly I didn't get it.
The book barely mentions the main characters from previous books and while it is nice to be introduced to a new character I really wanted to know more about what had happened to the main characters since the last book.
The book is as well written as any of the previous books, it has a style to it that I find very easy to read while not making everything sound too simplistic. It managed to make me want to keep reading to find out what happened next, something that meant I read the book as fast as I would read one half its length.
The story itself isn't that bad either, although unbelievable at times due to just how stupid many of the characters act or how unbelievably they are treated at times.
What really lets it down though is the ending which seems very rushed and far too "easy" considering how drawn out the rest of the story seemed. I'd even go as far as to say this is one of the worst endings I've ever seen in a book with some of the characters acting in a very unbelievable way while others barely being mentioned despite the fact that the book had been building them up since the beginning.
I just hope the next book is better.

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A. J. Roberts

Looks like he was persuaded to go off at a tangent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 28, 2001

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So after six great books and several thousand pages of epic fantasy I can only assume Mr Goodkind has been persuaded to prolong the day of the inevitable showdown and conclusion of this series by a book (and I hope only one book). Unfortunately it appears his heart wasn't in this delaying tactic, so the new characters, in this diversion are thin and un-likeable. Unfortunately the plot is even thinner; to such an extent I can more or less summate the first 380 pages in the following paragraph:
Introduce some new characters; play with them for a few chapters; get board with them; send them somewhere where you can introduce a few more characters. Get a character to enter a swamp, get the character to exit the swamp, get someone else to enter the swamp, get the someone else to exit the swamp, get yet another person to enter the swamp and exit, so you've guessed it; another person can enter the swamp, but this time while they are in the swamp, persuade someone else to exit the swamp.
It's only in the last hundred or so pages that you get anything like vintage Goodkind.
I just wonder how long he can hold the readership he has build up over the last six books if he produces another book of this ilk.

Ms. C. G. Lisle

It's not THAT bad!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 13, 2010

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First off, I have to say, I've really been enjoying this series, it gave me faith that not every huge fantasy book would be overly long, descriptive and dull. It's well thought out, interesting, and continues to delve deeper into the problems in Goodkinds fantastic world. Admittedly, This wasn't my favourite book of the series so far, for the following reasons:

1. Jenssen's character is irritating. She is very naive and ignores her instincts most of the time - something we know Richard would never do! But surely that is the point, she was sheltered from the world by her mother. She's hardly going to be the sharpest tool in the box is she!?

2. A lack of the ongoing story with Richard and Kahlan was frustrating, but purely because there are so many plotlines from the last book that I couldn't wait to continue! However, the break from the series was actually quite refreshing, seeing a different viewpoint of the world and seeing Jenssen's journey and thoughts. If she'd have just turned up in the next book with little explanation everyone would complain about that!

3. I didn't feel that it carried quite the same substance as previous books, it almost felt like a short story as a subplot to the main series, not so much a book in its own right.

These factors aside I still enjoyed it immensely however - probably because I was expecting the worst after reading bad reviews! Goodkind writes some wonderfully evil characters and Oba was no exception, a truly stomach churning character. It was interesting seeing the Order's point of view from an 'insider', to see how misdirected they are. The battle in the palace was briliant fun, I had to slow myself down from jumping ahead and despite having an inkling that Jagang will probably see it through to the end of the series, I was still willing him to die!

If you are reading and loving the series, stick with it just don't expect quite the same pace and interest in this book as Faith of the Fallen, which I loved. As I'm half way through Naked Empire, the next book in the series, I can definitely tell you that the plotlines, concepts and characters from this book continue to be important in the series, so it is a must read. This book doesn't make me like the series any less at all, it's just one of those books that is more aimed at continuing the story and adding some additional characters, than a standalone excellent story as many of the others.

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