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Granted, in a series this long, one needs to repeat things that the reader may have forgotten. Undoubtedly Goodkind gets paid by the word, because he keeps repeating things. I'm still committed to finishing the series, but this is beginning to get tedious. In between, Goodkind could use a good editor, to cut out his anachronisms, shorten the interminable conversations, and slash out all the frustrated teenager wet dream fodder. The last one does a good job of setting up the next novel as the culmination of all this mess. The first chapter does a fairly good job of setting up suspense. This reads like a draft at times, not like polished copy.

The characters use a great deal of twentieth century slang that pops me out of Goodkind's world every time. As usual with Goodkind, his lovingly detailed portrayal of the depravity of his villain is so over-the-top as to be comical-when I'm not wondering why Goodkind loves to focus on rape so much.Īs for the quality of the writing itself, the most annoying thing here is Goodkind's use of anachronisms. In this novel, where Kahlan is invisible to most people, she is sexually assaulted or threatened by virtually every man who sees her! And the thirty pages of buildup to Jagang almost raping her should be wonderful reading to all the social misfits reading this series who can't get a woman into bed with them willingly. I'm not the first to point out that every single novel in this series centers on Richard struggling to avoid losing his freedom and Kahlan struggling to avoid being sexually assaulted. At one point, they spend, no exaggeration, 133 pages on one single conversation! Seriously! Go count! 133 pages on just how evil the Commun-er, the libera-I mean, the Empire is.

I don't need the same conversation to take place between different sets of characters in each book. We've all heard of "Show, don't tell." Someone needs to tell Goodkind to "Tell, don't show." I don't need all this plot recounting. They tell each other things they've already told other characters. Goodkind imitates one of his characters, Jagang the Just, as he tortures this story and rapes his plot to the point where he stretches this one hundred page novella into a 673 page brick.Īlmost nothing happens in this book.