Rating: 
Summary: A really good book once again
Review: Ok. I have read the other reviews and considering thier mindless bladdering i take the time to write this one so all sensible Goodkind fans get a trustworthy review.The story is in fact not so much about the chimes as many seems considering the book dedicates only a small part to it. It is in fact a more political story than the earlier books. The book open ways for introducing more characters (Dalton, Beata, Fitch etc) whitch in fact play small part to overall serie but gets the reader more sides of the world then just the world through Khalan and Richards eyes. Here are some points way the book rock so much 1) The strange feeling that everything is going to straight to hell is a fantastic thing that gets the reader to wonder whos going to die and not. 2) Increased knowledge about the world 3) The end is juuuust great, it shows that our dear Richard got a more human side then just plain boring hero 4) it just rock! some bad things accur in all books, this had one. 1) it IS a bit slow the first 200 pages.
Rating: 
Summary: When you think Terry Goodkind has hit rock bottom....
Review: Somebody throws him a shovel. A really heavy-duty one. I always finish my series. Always. I read Wizard's First Rule and I thought it was pretty good, despite the blatant copying of Robert Jordan. The second book was mediocre, but I always excuse the second book in a series... after all, Star Wars was good, The Empire Strikes Back was not as good, but Return of the Jedi was fantastic. Terry, quit while you can still get a profit. I will never read another one of your books because they are so disgusting. Frankly, age-old "commies-are-bad" rhetoric died with the Cold War. Soul of the Fire was the most poorly written, pornographic, disgusting and idiotic piece of literature that I have ever read. A five-year old could write better. In the words of the Simpsons, I could puke in a fountain pen and mail it to the monkey house and get better writing. Hope this constructive criticism helps, Mr. G. ;)
Rating:
Summary: I don't see what the problem was...
Review: I don't see what the problem was... I liked it. I can't understand how a bunch of whiney people who haven't got an ounce of creativity would have cause to complain about it. You hate cliche, you say? Well... Richard was handed a crushing defeat. The good guy didn't win. Hate to see the good guys lose? Well, Richard banished the Chimes so in a way, he didn't totally lose. You hate people who churn out book after book about the same people? Call them "bad writers" and "hacks"? I liked the characters introduced in this one. They were devious, greedy, ignorant, innocent... they covered wide varity of character types. I loved that Goodkind revolved this book around the secondaries. This book was so far away from cliche that Mr. Goodkind couldn't have travel further down that path even with a gun to his head. Everyone lost in this book. Both sides were delivered defeat, and THAT is refreshing in itself. This book is so full of intricities that I feel it is worth a second read to see what I may have missed. I'm not one to think I could have done better and deserve a say in what Mr. Goodkind does with his vision. Good job, Terry.
Rating:
Summary: Very good book
Review: While reading the first book of the series, "Wizard's First Rule" I couldn't help but notice that their were many similarities between that book and Robert Jordan's WOT series. This book I thought really broke away from the WOT series, and I enjoyed all the plotting from the different characters. What I did not like about the book was all of the Republican ideology put in the book. If Mr. Goodkind could concentrate more on the characters in the book and less on the ideology in this world he could be a fantastic writer. Overall though very good book, and I can't wait to read the next one
Rating:
Summary: This series is seriously lacking
Review: I began the first book of this series with high hopes. I thought it had an interesting plot and it was fast paced and kept me interested. However, as the series progressed I found myself more and more frustrated with it. The character of Richard went from a believable everyday guy to this Uberhero who slaughters thousands of people and gets called "great" for it. The way Goodkind interacts his characters is annoying. In one of the books Khalan and a Mord-Sith patronizingly (and for 5 pages) describe their views of loyalty while a would-be assasin lays on the floor in semi-conciousness! Don't you think that conversation could have waited until afterwards? Goodkind writes as if his readers were 5 years old and slow, spending countless pages describing a miniscule point then backing it up with 3 pages of gut-wrenching and unexplainable gore. Also, NO ONE EVER CRITISIZES RICHARD, EVER. He will do something incredibly stupid and someone will say "You shouldn't have done that". Then Richard replys with a vague (yet still chapters long) and thin explanation why what he did was right, and his would-be critisizer ends up saying "Richard, you are a very special person, and what you did was absolutely right" It is very unbelievable and frankly very annoying. His world-building also leaves much to be desired. It seems as if, once Richard completely wipes out one threat to his home, Goodkind says "Oh, and there's this place that's really famous and evil even though I never mentioned it before now, and there's this guy with a big army and he's bad, and, um, he wants to take over the Midlands" And of course Richard runs in there, slaughters the evil and innocents alike, explains why that was a good thing and moves on to the next slaughter-fest. This series definately needs to be better thought out.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing...but the second half is good.
Review: Soul of the Fire was a bit of a chore. The first half of the book kind of plods along like T.G. wasn't really sure what he wanted to write. However, the story really picks up in the second half. (It took me three weeks to get through the first half of the book and two days for the second.) By the end of the book I was a believer again...and then it abruptly ended, leaving me panting for the next book. I am still trying to figure out what Goodkind has against Kahlan and Richard. After book four I sort of expected him to find new ways to advance the story, other than torturing the main characters AGAIN (and from the reviews I've read it doesn't improve in book six.) I did catch some of the political references mentioned in the other reviews, but it didn't bother me all that much, a lot of writers do that (even good old Tolkien.) If you've been following the series and liked it so far then you have to read it, just be prepared for a slow start.
Rating:
Summary: Good, but a notch behind rest of series
Review: Having just finished Robert Jordan's latest, which I avoided for awhile due to the bad reviews, and having been horrified at the meandering pace and pointless novel, I was a little afraid to go back to this series, too. I originally thought the Sword was a more traditional, not as enriching series, but Robert Jordan has sure begun to get annoying as the series meanders and the characters do often incomprehensible things that seem to relate only to male-bashing. This latest Sword episode is also a step back from the quality of the rest of the series, but on ly a small step, unlike Jordan's fiasco. I still enjoyed all of this book, and in fact, I wanted it to continue longer. my only complaint is that very little of the plot lines were resolved. It is very much an "interim" book. I will say one more thing: these guys need to resolve these series SOON.
Rating:
Summary: Kind a liked it.
Review: Granted, it led the reader into a new direction. Away from Richard and Kahlan but it also tied the entire series together. We now know what is the next pivital event that must take place in order to save the free people.
Rating: 
Summary: Blah!
Review: The First 3 books of this series were very good. I thoroughly enjoyed the 1st especially. With the fourth, however, there was pretty strong indication that the following works could be sliding. Unfortunately that was the case with Soul of the Fire. I was truly hoping never to hear about the "Mud People" again. But we get 100+ pages about the "Chicken that's not a chicken". Kahlan is becoming very high maintenance - what happened to the testical eating babe we came to love in Book One?! And what happened to the Gar and the Dragon; I have an idead, bring them back to wipe out the Mud people!...Well anyway, I'm going to bite on Book 6...I just hope the Mud People are completely and utterly destroyed for all time by the Order.
Rating:
Summary: If you haven't read this....DON'T!
Review: Although Goodkinds started out with a good series, it has been declining ever since the third novel. The majority of this book focuses upon new, uninteresting characters three quarters of the time causing me to feel as if this book were a chore instead of pleasure reading. The uninteresting characters in the novel receive an abrupt end which gives me the sense of frustration after trudging through 500 pages about them. If you want a series which is still interesting at book 8...read Robert Jordan.
| 
