[Luvian]

I really really liked the first 3-4 books, but I think the series went downhill after that. It got really repetitive, Terry Goodkind's preeching get old really fast, it's almost copy pasted word for word, and in some novels you barely saw the main characters. When he did it on the novel with his sister I tolerated it thinking she would have a huge role to play later on in the story, but it turn out she's mostly a background character, remove her from the story and no events would change really.

But the novel where for half of it we follow a bunch of teenagers in a kingdom and at the end only one survive and we never see or hear about her again? It really annoyed me. Alright, we understand you want us to know more about that place, but spending half the book to establish the setting of an unimportant country we probably won't hear about ever again is ridicullous. I've read reviews of certain books where people said thing along the line of "Read the first 50 pages, then jump to page 350-500, then read from 700 to the end, and you won't miss anything of the plot". And the sad part? I agree with them.

And then I got pissed off at the end of Naked Empire when I read the preview for Chainfire and found out Richard and Khalan got seperated AGAIN. That's it, I'm not finishing the series. Is there even one book in which they did not get seperated? And also, how many times did Richard have problems with his magic for one reason or another? Repetitive.

[ 08-27-2006, 06:14 PM: Message edited by: Luvian ]