Stone of Tears

I'm loving my winter break simply because I get to read a lot. I'm currently reading three books. Fifty Shades of Grey, The Casual Vacancy, and Stone of Tears. Fifty Shades I plan to write it's own little post whenever I finish it, so there will be more on that later. Same with The Casual Vacancy. But Stone of Tears I have read before, and am rereading it. Why? Because the books I bought at Barnes and Noble with my gift card were the rest of the series that SoT belongs to.

Stone of Tears is the second book in the Sword of Truth series. They are like the best fantasy series I have ever read and I really really recommend them to anyone.

So here is a somewhat review of it.

After the events of the first book, which is called Wizard's First Rule, the main characters Richard and Kalhan, who are in love think the battle is won and finally over. With plans to marry they soon realize that won't happen. The events of the first  book led to what is called the veil( a sort of wall) to the underworld to break. And the Keeper, (which would kind of be the equivalent of the Devil) is plotting to be released from the depths of the underworld. Richard realizes he is a wizard and wizards suffer from horrible headaches that will eventually kill them. So when three women who call themselves Sisters of the Light, who are like bad ass nuns who yield magic and train wizards to control  their gift appear they want to take Richard with them. The catch he has to be separated from Kahlan for an indefinite amount of time, he has to wear a collar that will have the Sisters controlling him and bringing him horrible pain (read the first book as to why this is a million times worse than it sounds) and soon Richard and Kahlan are separated.

The veil is breaking. Evil is loose. Richard has to be trained and he soon finds that within the Sisters of the Light who worship the Creator(who would be like God) there are Sisters of the Dark (who worship the Keeper), they are plotting something evil.

There is so much more to this story and this lame summary of it will never do it justice. So just do yourself a favor and read the series. It really is soo much cooler than it sounds!