To be perfectly honest I dont like gookind that much couple of reasons
A:his main charecters never ever change Richard is exactly the same, nothing makes an impact, nothing changes the way he thinks, Kahalan is boring beyond belief and I honestly cant say i have even a remotly clear mental image of her.To make matters somewhat worse there painfully good they always go on and on for pages about very high minded MODERN philosophy when the situation would dictate they should think differently( ie get on with the buisness at hand). Charecters should have light and dark, Richard and kahalan are terribly one dimensional as are most of the charecters but there also never wrong its like reading egotistical ravings. Damn but having read robin hobbs farseer trilogy recently and after witnessing the incredible charecter development Goodkind is sickeningly bad. From reading the books Richard and kahalan score all 25s in the abilities and just their endless perfection iritates me
B: The books seem to be written for sweaty palmed 13 year olds, I realise authors put sex into novels to make it interesting but why do we have to suffer through all of the awful mysogynist violence. Most of the sex scenes demean women and dont argue realism after seeing the wax puppet charecters. Its so boring as well i remember this kind of thing being discussed on bgdungeon before and the conclusion was it should be left to the imagination because pornography is for dull People with no minds. I dont object to sex scenes i do object to cruel sexual violence
C: Goodkind suffers from some kind of problem when from book to book the enemey or deadly creature always has to be a million times harder and more evil than the previous ones this might seem aceptable in an rpg for progresive gameplay but in a book it just seems like a series of dick extensions, an example of say the nazgul in Lord of the rings shows that you can keep an enemy deadly and scary throughout a series, but in the sword of truth it goes wizard with subtractive, loads of women with subtractive, and so forth into eternity.
While i could go i wont because im getting bored i will write a good point , some of the minor charecters are good nicci and cara although the way nicci changes in the end should have been done a lot better
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