Chainfire (Sword of Truth)

This series is the best 1,000 paged books I've read to this point.

I give this book one star simply because the setting shows a little creativity. The rest is horribly written jingoistic drivel that shows the author's disregard for the reader's intelligence. I couldn't even finish the book since it was such ham-fisted, long winded objectivist nonsense filled with one-dimensional characters who only see the world in black or white. Avoid this...more

I give this book one star simply because the setting shows a little creativity. The rest is horribly written jingoistic drivel that shows the author's disregard for the reader's intelligence. I couldn't even finish the book since it was such ham-fisted, long winded objectivist nonsense filled with one-dimensional characters who only see the world in black or white. Avoid this book at all costs unless you enjoy reading Galt-style speeches every few pages or so.   hide

Chainfire started off with three hooks that could have been interesting (One about prophesy, one about Kahlan, and one about Richard being in danger). And that was about as interesting as the book got. We had to sit through hundreds of pages full of essentially nothing. What was already a long-winded argument was repeated in 3 (or four, I lost count) different places...more

Chainfire started off with three hooks that could have been interesting (One about prophesy, one about Kahlan, and one about Richard being in danger). And that was about as interesting as the book got. We had to sit through hundreds of pages full of essentially nothing. What was already a long-winded argument was repeated in 3 (or four, I lost count) different places throughout the book, with the exact same conclusions being drawn each time. A conversation that I ranted about to almost everyone I knew because it was so maddeningly repetitive. Ironically (and this is a minor spoiler) the conversation was about there being blank pages in books of prophesy. This conversation, and others, seemed only to have been written to fill otherwise blank pages. Goodkinds heroines have been relegated to nothing more than weeping girls who all happen to be madly in love with him. And Richard. Oh Richard... you become as flat as a Ritz cracker. The only reason I was able to finish this book (on th third attempt, I simply couldn't force myself through it before) was because I was reading it at work on my lunch breaks, where I am held captive, and there's no electronic entertainment to be found. And because I've been told that Phantom is much better. It's certainly hard to be worse. I think this book is the worst of the lot. Phantom had better be better, or I don't know how I'll make myself read Confessor.   hide

Better than the previous book in the series. Not quite as preachy.