title: Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, Book 6)
author:  Terry Goodkind 
description: Fantasy series fans may argue over the relative merits of Terry Goodkind's <a href="/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/11678/${0}">Sword of Truth</a>, George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, but in a world of middle books that go nowhere and endless waits between episodes, Goodkind is certainly still serving up some of the best fantasy on today's menu.
zlib_text: **Faith of the Fallen**
  
  Sword of Truth 06
  
  Terry Goodkind
  
    
  
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  **Chapter 1**
  
  She didn’t remember dying.
  
  With an obscure sense of apprehension, she wondered if the distant angry
  voices drifting in to her meant she was again about to experience that
  transcendent ending: death.
  
  There was absolutely nothing she could do about it if she was.
  
  While she didn’t remember dying, she dimly recalled, at some later point,
  solemn whispers saying that she had, saying that death had taken her, but that
  he had pressed his mouth over hers and filled her stilled lungs with his
  breath, his life, and in so doing had rekindled hers. She had had no idea who
  it was that spoke of such an inconceivable feat, or who “he” was.
  
  That first night, when she had perceived the distant, disembodied voices as
  little more than a vague notion, she had grasped that there were people around
  her who didn’t believe, even though she was again living, that she would
  remain alive through the res