Rating: 
Summary: another good book
Review: this is a very good SOT novel. If you read this book you will enjoy the whole thing. Though i must say the ending was not as strong as it could have been but it is still a very good book. If you have never read one of these books i urge you to start from the begining or you will be lost. All in all a very good book
Rating:
Summary: another good book
Review: this is a very good SOT novel. If you read this book you will enjoy the whole thing. Though i must say the ending was not as strong as it could have been but it is still a very good book. If you have never read one of these books i urge you to start from the begining or you will be lost. All in all a very good book
Rating: 
Summary: A disappointing and repetitive addition to a gripping series
Review: While I very much enjoyed the first four books in this series (particularly books 1, 2, and 4), I was very disappointed in this one. The amount of regurgitation of previous material seems to be increasing in each book, and is getting ridiculous. I'm not sure why the author inserts 3 page synopses in random locations in the storyline -- if he feels the need to explain the previous 4 books, why doesn't he write a prologue for people who haven't read them?The main flaw in this book is that it does virtually nothing to advance the overall storyline of the Sword of Truth Series. It takes far too long to deliver a rather obvious parable about a politically correct and morally corrupt America, where victimhood is used as a weapon. I'm not saying such an allegory is a bad idea, just that it shouldn't take hundreds of repetitive pages to set up, and ultimately lead nowhere. Basically most of this book is an unsatisfying sideline to the main thrust of this series. It lacks the pacing and tension of the earlier books, and one of the most interesting characters, Kahlan, seems to be gradually turning into a petulant child. Overall, I'd say the Sword of Truth is showing alarming signs of degenerating into the kind of endless soap opera that Robert Jordan churns out. I hope I'll be proven wrong with the sixth book; I enjoyed the first four enough to forgive one disappointing entry in the series.
Rating:
Summary: A good read!
Review: While violent, certianly not unimaginative. I quite enjoyed this book. The concept was quite interesting and definately a bit different... I liked it overall.
Rating: 
Summary: Get ON with it, will you?
Review: WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS:
If you're enthralled with the Truth sequence, go ahead and read this book. It satisfyingly extends some of the characters and one might find revisiting them refreshing. As scifiguys noted, though, do not expect serious advancement in the sequence. Do not go out of your way to buy this book in hardcover. Save it for some sort of "rainy day" when nothing better is going on and you're looking for reasons not to clean the house.
WHY YOU SHOULD PASS:
You want something more than a new episode in a soap opera? Then pass. If nudity, sex, violence, and Murphy's Law realized in several coincidental cruelties across hundreds of pages are not, by themselves, going to do it for you, then definitely pass. Goodkind, despite imaginitive flaws, still has plenty of that to offer.
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