Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, Book 1)

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Summary: exciting, absorbing, thrilling fantasy adventure
Review: This book is fun to read right from the beginning. The characters grow on you and you really feel their plight. The sense of doom that is part of the plot is very clearly conveyed. Once I started reading this book, I had to take it everywhere I went.

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Summary: The first of a great series!
Review: I read this book in about a week or so. It's one of those books that flows right through to the end. My teachers would yell at me in class because I was reading it while they were lecturing. I'm surprised at some of the reviews that gave this book a one or two star rating. I'll have to try out some of the books that they mentioned and see what the fuss is about. Anyway, I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good epic fantasy series.

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Summary: Possibly my favorite book ever
Review: This book was an amazing read, I cant believe that some people didnt like it. Well I loved it. It had all the things that are crucial to a fantasy book, a strong hero, a wise wizard, a very beleavable love intrest, a powerful weapon, and pleanty of magic. I loved it. I loved the plot and how the story kept you guessing to the end. I recomend it to all fantasy readers

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Summary: Could'nt put it down
Review: This book was great i have read many fantasy books and this is one of the best i feel in love with the characters right away. from beginning to ened i could'nt put down this book. I read 4 books in the series in under two weeks.

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Summary: Wooden and badly written
Review: Reading the reviews of this book leaves me mystified. Don't you people have any exposure to decent fantasy literature? Anyone who has ever read Tolkein would find this stuff pathetic and wooden, with characters that are one dimensional and plots that play like bad melodrama. There is so much good stuff out there, old and new--Ursula Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Elizabeth Haydon, even Rowling, who writes for kids, writes with vastly more depth than this. Ickk. It's like pouring refined sugar in your brain.

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Summary: Excellent character setup , non-stop reading till the end
Review: First off I cannot give a full review for I am not done reading the whole series, but up until this point I am quite inpressed with the reading.I think the characters and story line are wonderful.Sometimes Goodkind wonders a bit far and creates to much.I am currently working on finishing the third novel in the series and I cannot put the books down. If I can say one thing it would be that the books hold my interest with all the different plots going on all over the world new and old. a truly magnificent adventure that I would have never have thought to begin.

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Summary: A WONDERFULLY WRITTEN FANTASY EPIC
Review: This book is incredible. It has everything a person could ask for in an epic fantasy, and more. After reading the Wheel of Time, I thought I was prepared for fantasy. After reading this, I knew I wasn't. Terry Goodkind writes towards a more mature audience than Robert Jordan. The characters experience all emotions: love, happiness, anger, rage, terror, hope, and everything that can be asked for in such a perfect fantasy. Terry Goodkind has written quite wonderfully, and I definitely give him five stars. His detail is outstanding, and it is obvious that he put hardwork into his book. And don't be frightened by how long the book is, you will wish it were longer.

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Summary: Overrated
Review: Why do all the books reviewed here get four to five stars? I really don't understand it. Certainly, I don't think it's deserved here. I suffered through this book because my husband said that the second book was much better. I will probably never get to it. I think Mr. Goodkind has a few interesting ideas, but I found his characters to be too annoying to live. Ah, the self-sacrificing Kahlan. What a saint. And Richard, our pure-as-the-driven-snow hero. Ugh. I just didn't care at all about them (except to wish them a violent end...hopefully within two chapters). Secondly, the dialogue was the most boring, stilted dreck. To make it even worse, I had just finished reading George R.R. Martin's, Guy Gavriel Kay's, and Vernor Vinge's latest. Now there's characterization and dialogue.

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Summary: Not bad but certainly not a masterpiece
Review: The book is not a bad debut but certainly not the masterpiece I had expected. Some of the players fall into the story from nowhere and out of it and right back in again. Furthermore the writer tried to impress us with the fact that his hero is human by making him cry at the end of almost each chapter and if he is not crying than the female hero is. Like I said, not a back book but the story is not as logical and sound as we would expect from a masterpiece and making the hero human by just making him cry is a shortcoming. Nevertheless I bought the sequel just to see if he is improving because the talent is there.

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Summary: Don't usually read fantasy, but...
Review: ...I loved this book! Goodkind's character development is incredible -- I really cared about Richard and Kahlan. Another great feature is how the author creates a parallel world and includes real history (did you notice that the Darken Rahl re-education camps have cult/Communism links?)