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Nest: A Thriller
Nest: A Thriller
Nest: A Thriller
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Nest: A Thriller

Written by Terry Goodkind

Narrated by Elisabeth Rodgers

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Kate Bishop is in a world of trouble. In the wake of several inexplicable and brutal murders, Kate is thrust into a police inquiry that reveals shocking family secrets. Suddenly exposed to a shadowy network of global evil, her life takes a dramatic turn with the arrival of Jack Raines, an author with a mysterious past, who says he has the answers to her questions. What's more, he suggests that Kate herself might be the solution.

But hot on their heels are a force of super-predators, vicious and bloodthirsty killers who will stop at nothing until Kate and Jack are eliminated. Like Jack, they've realized just how special Kate is, and now she's marked for death.

An explosive mix of action and suspense, Nest is a landmark new novel from worldwide bestselling author Terry Goodkind, and a complete reinvention of the paranormal thriller. Travel with Goodkind on a dangerous journey to the back alleys of the darknet, to the darkest corners of our minds, and to the very origins of what it is to be human, a place few have ventured and fewer still have survived.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 15, 2016
ISBN9781681685236
Nest: A Thriller
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Terry Goodkind

Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series has sold over 26 million copies in 20 languages. Before becoming a full-time writer Terry worked as a wildlife artist, a cabinetmaker and a violin maker. terrygoodkind.com @terrygoodkind facebook.com/terrygoodkind

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Let me start by saying it’s rare I give a full 5 star review. This is my first Goodkind book and I’m astonished it isn’t rated higher - it well earned all of my stars. I so appreciate the detail he puts into his character building and descriptive way he is able to paint his readers into the story, watching every breathtaking scene take place.

    The book delivered a range of true emotion, from shock to horror, anguish to anger, and heartbreak to hope.

    If you enjoy a thrilling, page-turning mystery, do yourself a favor and listen to/read this book. I would have sooner were it better reviewed, but we can’t always judge a book by its cover (or by other people’s judgements)! :)
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    An interesting book to read, will recommend it to anybody who likes fiction
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I should have known. I suppose I did know. I had just hoped that Goodkind had gotten out of whatever funk he's been in. Seriously, this bad writing is beginning to make me second guess my love for his Sword of Truth series. Did I really love it like I remember loving it? I'm going to have to go back and check because his writing now could not inspire the awe I held for those earlier books. What happened? I'm beginning to become truly concerned. As for this book, the premise is interested and it did introduce me to some topics I've never come across before. There was even a small part of the book that really got me thinking about life and morality. There, at least, I could see a sliver of the old Goodkind writing. But other than that the book fell completely flat. The action and fight scenes were not realistic, the writing too repetitive, the dialogue too long winded, the characters flat, the romance ridiculous... you get my drift. I got a little excited when the story diverged into some genetics, but while the idea presented here is interesting, it's full of holes, which makes it seem unbelievable. This is supposed to be a thriller, and I spent 400 pages wondering when it was going to be over. Frankly, I am surprised at all the reviews I see for this book raving about how they couldn't put it down. Me? I had to work to keep reading. :/
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The eye is the lamp of the body. If your vision is clear, your whole body will be full of light.
    But if your vision is poor, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
    ? Matthew 6: 22-23


    The pros:

    Nest: A Thriller was my introduction to the authored fiction of Terry Goodkind. As a matter of fact, the said novel is the only one of Goodkind's literary creation that I've read to date. And with the understanding (per quite a few members of his fandom) that Mr. Goodkind is a novelist relatively new to the Thriller genre (his standard genre being Science Fiction), I must applaud the author on this particular effort: The gruesome narrative revolving around Kate Bishop, its protagonist, who was born with the remarkable and hereditary ability to identify evilly depraved, and ruthless, cold-blooded murderers ? just by looking into their eyes.

    Nest: A Thriller is a blood-curdling tale that kept me up way late into the night?every night?until I completed it. And though the bloodlustful thriller is just a bit too "drawn out" in frustratingly long chapters for me, still, it is a work that held my interest, duly. Besides the irrelevance of too much unnecessary and boring detail, hence the horribly prolonged chapters, Goodkind means well with Nest: A Thriller. For overall, it is a very good achievement.

    The cons:

    Despite the fact that this story is set in Chicago, absolutely nothing about this book "felt" like Chicago ? if that makes any sense. The setting of Nest: A Thriller did not "feel" like Chicago. And I would know, what considering that the Second City is my Nativity. Save O'Hare International Airport, one of Chicago's greatest landmarks, there had been no mention, whatsoever, of any other Chicago landmarks, neighborhoods, streets, public transportation systems, parks, establishments, citizens, or otherwise. Not even the city's glorious and legendary lakefront received a mention. And THAT is one helluva no-no. His failure to truly capture the city of Chicago, in its essence, had been only one, among many, of Goodkind's offensive bloopers here.

    A word to the wise: If ya gon' bring in Chicago, ya betta bring it in right, or ya bet not bring it in at all.

    Readers should feel as if they've been transported to the setting of whatever book it is that they happen to be reading. But within the pages of Terry Goodkind's Nest: A Thriller, the same will not sense that they're in Chicago ? especially not if they're already familiar with the city ? be he or she a native or a visitor.

    Next, unlike the so-called "genetic breakdown of humans" that Jack Raines so eloquently described to our protagonist, Kate, to better her understanding of the human nature, where killing is concerned, reality, or the truth, if you please, is an entirely different matter. For one, Mankind was not inherently murderous. Human beings do not have an "inborn genetic mandate for killing." The potential to kill is not a part of our "genetic makeup" as human beings. It's simply the desire for evil that wars in our members, the result of evil temptation courtesy of Satan, the Enemy of All Mankind.

    Father God gave Man free will: Good or evil, period. Serve the Lord, or serve Satan, period. And since Satan, the Enemy of All Mankind, an infiltrator from the spiritual realm, was a murderer from the beginning, well, there you have it. Humans who are tempted to murder other humans are doing the will, or "bidding" of Satan. For HE, and he alone, is the only tempter.

    Cain was the first human murderer. He had murdered his brother, Abel, because Abel had offered up to Father God a more pleasing sacrifice than Cain's own. For Abel had offered the Lord his best, unlike Cain. And with his witnessing his brother's approved offering, Satan entered Cain: First with envy and hatred, then with a murderous spirit.

    Satan was only allowed to do this because the two brothers' parents, particularly their mother, Eve, had been deceived by the voice of Satan, speaking from the spiritual realm through that of a physical being, namely a member of the reptile family, tempting the woman to disobey a direct commandment from her Creator?the Lord God?during her husband Adam's and her dwelling in the Garden of Eden.

    Adam, too, had been tempted (by Eve, after her mind had been captured) to follow suit with his woman. And the dire result of their combined disobedience had been Death. On cue with Father God's judgment, Satan now had himself a place in this three-dimensional physical realm. And the Serpent of Old, who has waged a relentless war on Mankind, Father God's very own creation in the first place, continues to tempt those humans who are "open" to his demonic lies to do Earthly evil, on a daily basis, in the sight of the Lord Thy God. Even to this very day.

    The battle was never physical. It was spiritual...from day one.

    If one ever loses sight of that truth, then the same will find themselves misled by propagandic rhetoric. And much of what I read in this novel, in my own personal opinion, was propagandic rhetoric.

    One should never allow themselves to be concerned with the physical surface, but rather with the spiritual, first. Because the spiritual is what begets the physical. If the spiritual is in error, then the outcome will be evil, and vice versa.

    Satan, the Devil, who is an evil spirit, and not a physical being, tempts humans to carry out sin, and that would include committing murder. Killing is not part of our "genetic makeup." We are not natural born killers, but we were all born into sin because of Adam's disobedience to Father God. Adam because he was the head of the woman. Therefore God held him accountable.

    For that reason, Satan is allowed to tempt humans to mimick his ungodly nature. And unfortunately, there are many who do not resist him.

    What Terry Goodkind focused on in Nest: A Thriller was the physical. He did not explore the spiritual. And there is where he got tripped up. The natural order is always the spiritual first, then the physical. Spiritual warfare begets human chaos, in this, the three-dimensional physical realm. Take Satan out, and peace will dwell. Allow Satan in, and you'll have continued chaos. Period.

    That said, Terry Goodkind still deserves a desireable rating for this literary attainment. Nest: A Thriller is not at all a bad read, but where it falls short (pun for fun) would run along the lines of a huge section of misguided information, not to mention chapters that are simply too long, bloated with a lot of boring and unnecessary information that could've been left out.

    Also, the plot, however captivating, took way too long to unfold. And that was torturous taking into account how lengthy the chapters were.


    The cons may outweigh the pros, but Terry Goodkind gave the
    highly suspenseful ending his all. And despite the cons, such an ending cannot be overlooked. So for that reason being, I am giving Terry Goodkind's Nest: A Thriller a satisfactory rating of four stars. And for those of you who love dark and brooding thrillers, smothered in chilling suspense, with plenty of gore for presentation, I would favorably recommend it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Special Talents Make For Deadly Consequences

    Unique story plot gives this book it's strength. The protagonist has special talents, and the listener (reader) is drawn in with slow tugs revealing her true nature, and the imminent danger her talents presents. I enjoyed the various twists and the unusual characters, most good but jaded with a haunted past. Much of the story was "in her head" and perhaps a little too much, but there was also a good balance of action. Some scenes of dialogue between two characters seemed like a teaching episode, but I admit it was interesting material, so I remained fixed to the story. Perhaps reading the book may be a different experience than listening, though the narrator's performance was excellent. The ending was very good and leading to the next book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Good storyline, book was pretty much the same as "The Girl in the Moon" which I should not have read first but did not realize was part of a set.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was my second Terry Goodkind book. It started off like gang busters but then started to lose steam.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Meh, it was ok but there was far too much exposition and explanation and far too little action. There is a setup at the end for a possible continuation of the story, I would probably read it but this ios one to get from the library, don't waste the money or book credit to purchase.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    while it was not his best... for the most part I did enjoy the book. Oddly enough, the part I liked the least was the contorted efforts to explain what 'nest' meant. I'm sure it had great significance to the author... but for me, it distracted from the otherwise pretty decent story.

    And very nice set up for the next story in this series!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Imagine you could spot a murderer just by looking at a photograph of his face? Not only recognise him, but know the intimate details of his crime. Kate Bishop discovers she has just this ability – as did her recently murdered brother. Author Jack Raines is an expert on evil, with unique abilities of his own: he and Kate make a formidable team, posing a real threat to the world’s ‘super-predators’, but becoming targets themselves. Terry Goodkind is famous for his epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth and although Nest is not fantasy, it is the first in a series and not recommended for anyone who likes a Beginning, a Middle, and an End.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is the first book I have read by Terry Goodkind, I really don't care for fantasy type stories, but when I was offered this one and read the blurb I thought, this is just my kind of story, scary, speculative type story. "For the past three weeks, John Allen Bishop had been keeping the devil chained in the basement" John Bishop is a young man with developmental issues, who can "see the evil" in people's eyes. A series of events end up taking this young man's life.Kate Bishop is John's sister who is just a normal woman, living a normal life and becomes involved in the investigation into her brother's murder. She finds that she has the ability to identify killers just by looking into their eyes. Now that is pretty scary in and of itself, but there are other people out there with the same ability and they can tell when a person has the ability like Kate does. That puts Kate in great danger. She meets Jack Raines, an author, who actually works for Mossad, the intelligence agency for Israel. What Jack does is find people with Kate's abilities and try to protect them from predators out to kill them.These predators go to the Dark Net, a part of the internet used for computer hacking, pornography, and other nefarious acts. Jack and Kate must find these people and kill them before they kill her. This proves to be a terrifying task and they both may end up dead.I have to say that this book was a real page-turner. Just the very idea that you could have the ability to see evil in a person's eyes and see how they are going to commit a horrible crime would be overwhelming. The author has indeed a vivid imagination and an enormous ability with the written word. If you love a good thriller, this one is for you. This review is voluntary.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    A fascinating premise, a riveting opening, and then endless pages of monologue, explaining and re-explaining, over and over.This book is marketed as a thriller. It is not. It's not even particularly suspenseful. This is more an exposition on society and killers. The plot revolves around humanity's propensity toward violent crime, our evolution (or devolution), the darknet, and a unique ability to recognize a killer. Goodkind bases this all in real science. I've read a lot of nonfiction on these topics, and I could tell that Goodkind did his research. But the story's execution winds up reading like his research notes, and the leaps Goodkind takes from conjecture to fact are troublesome. With the exception of Kate's brother John, whose part is quite small, the characters are flat, one-dimensional, and dull. They lack even the slightest spark of life.Most of the story is told through dialogue, which is largely one-sided, with Jack Raines expounding uninterrupted for pages at a time, as he explains every single nuance of every single research point, along with his subjective conclusions, to Kate. Then he rearranges his words and explains again. And then Kate sums up what he said and regurgitates it back to him. At best, this comes off like a college lecture, with Jack being the kind of professor who speaks in monotone. At worst, it's tedious and ridiculous. An example: At one point, Kate and Jack are in a computer store using a store model for access to the darknet so they can't be traced from their personal computers. Jack emphasizes that they need to be quiet and not call attention to themselves. Then they proceed to stand there and look at the horrors of the darknet on this store's computer, while Jack lectures Kate about humanity's evils. His monologue goes on and on... and on. Seriously, they'd have had to be standing in that spot, looking at that computer, for thirty minutes. All without drawing attention from salespeople or customers. Try that in Best Buy and see how far you get.Then we have the interspersed political rants, where Jack tells Kate how we've been beaten down, as a nation no longer feeling we have a right to defend ourselves, and so we allow countries like North Korea and Iran to flourish with evil and control us. These passages are intermingled with Jack's warnings about how we've allowed police to steal our rights and, yes, control us. Oh, and the only people who play those first-person shooter video games are would-be killers. This gives the book a self-serving, alarmist feel, cheapening the actual research basis for the story.When the story does move into action, the violence is intense and the details are graphic. This has the unfortunate feel of a bad horror movie, with the gory scenes tossed in to impact readers and force-feed the opinion that humanity is on a fast track to hell and, eventually, extinction. And, so, when I at last got to the final page, I could only breathe a sigh of relief that it was over, along with a groan of irritation that I'd wasted my time.*I was provided with a review copy in exchange for my brutally honest opinion.*
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I cannot even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this book. It definitely kept me on the edge of my seat. The characters are well developed, the plot was engrossing, and the action was all that it needed to be. I will admit yet I shed a tear or two while reading this book. The author did a marvelous job of making you care for the characters, and of allowing you to feel so much of what they were going through. When the book ended I was left wanting more. I hope that the author might revisit these characters in another book. While I did receive an Advance Reader's Copy of this book, I was not required to leave a review. I loved the book so much that I immediately came to review it here as soon as I read the last page. I highly recommend this book to anyone that enjoys a tense, sometimes a little gory, action-filled thriller with believable characters and a lot of emotion.