Soul of the Fire
Sword of Truth • Book 5
by Terry Goodkind
Narrated by Buck Schirner
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Strip a war wizard of his magic and his sword, then watch what he does — that's the whole tension of this 24-hour ride.
- Great if you want: epic fantasy with high stakes and stripped-down heroism
- Listening experience: sprawling and slow in stretches, but builds to real tension
- Narration: Schirner's steady, grounded delivery suits Richard's everyman origins
- Skip if: you're fatigued by long mid-series fantasy volumes
About This Audiobook
Soul of the Fire, the fifth Sword of Truth novel, introduces a new crisis for Richard and Kahlan: their wedding has accidentally unsealed a spell locked away in the distant land of Anderith, and the power now releasing threatens to drain all life from the world. Stripped of their magic and separated from the Sword of Truth, the two must traverse dangerous territory while the political machinations of Anderith's ruling class work to prevent them from stopping the catastrophe. Goodkind writes the series with unapologetic scope.
Buck Schirner narrates the substantial twenty-four-hour audiobook with the gravitas the Sword of Truth series demands. His voice for Richard carries the character's characteristic moral certainty, which is the series' double-edged quality — powerful in action scenes, occasionally tested by the philosophical passages. Schirner's command of the large ensemble cast keeps the political plotting legible.
