The Law of Nines
The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a stunningly original, high-octane thriller.
They watch you through mirrors…
“Your mother was twenty-seven when it came to her. Now you’re twenty-seven, and it’s come to you.”
The skin of Alex’s arms tingled with goose bumps. By her twenty-seventh birthday insanity had come to his mother...
Turning 27 may be terrifying for some, but for Alexander, a struggling artist in small-town Nebraska, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land in Maine 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...
Where do you turn when your own reflection spells doom?
In Alex, Terry Goodkind brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of thriller.
Terry Goodkind
Terry Goodkind (1948–2020) was an American writer. He was known for the epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth as well as the contemporary suspense novel The Law of Nines (2009), which has ties to his fantasy series. The Sword of Truth series sold 25 million copies worldwide and was translated into more than 20 languages. Additionally, it was adapted into a television series called Legend of the Seeker, which premiered on November 1, 2008, and ran for two seasons, ending in May 2010.
Goodkind was a proponent of Ayn Rand's philosophical approach of Objectivism, and made references to Rand's ideas and novels in his works.
Book Reviews
When I began to read The Law of Nines I was a bit worried about its quality, because I was very disappointed with the amount of philosophical preaching in the last Sword of Truth books. I hoped this book would be good and interesting, but unfortunately Terry Goodkind repeated the same old things and the book turned out to be a big disappointment. The Law of Nines was basically a new and modernized version of Wizard's First Rule. The main characters were almost exactly like Richard and Kahlan and that was very annoying. This book has been called "stunningly original", which is quite amazing, because in my opinion this book is "stunningly repetitive" (Goodkind recycles almost everything in this book). I also have to say that I wouldn't call this book thriller, because it's much nearer to urban fantasy than thriller genre. I can't recommend this book to anybody, because there are much better urban fantasy writers (for example Rob Thurman and Jim Butcher write good urban fantasy books and they don't preach about certain things). I honestly hope that the author of this book will try to write something new and original in the near future, because I've had enough of this kind of books.