Phantom

I wasted a selection and HOURS of my time choosing this Highly-Praised 4 Star book...I guess I'll be more careful next time, not basing my selections so heavily on other members' ratings. This book seems like it was written by a 13 yr. old Dungeons & Dragons fanatic who's two greatest interests are cooking up elaborate Witchcraft incantations not into it, personally, but willing to read thru it in the hopes of a good plot line and conjuring up the most vile forms of torture and degradation and describing them...ad nosium...until the reader either liking this stuff, presumably satiates themselves or, as in my case, almost falls asleep with the inane, constant, boring, decrepit descriptions. There isn't much of a plot line, here, just Good Guys slowly plodding from one scene to the next describing just HOW bad the Bad Guys are. Hitler would've envied this authors reach for the morbid, though. If you're into that sort of thing, you'll love it! I've got better things to do then immerse myself in the suffering of fictitious characters if I have to listen to that much bad stuff, the STORY should be worth it...it's not.

Richard and Kahlan are captured by the d’Haran forces It's difficult to say whether CHAINFIRE is the opening book in a trilogy or the ninth book in the now aging SWORD OF TRUTH series. In any event, to briefly summarize, Lord Richard Rahl is the sole survivor of a battle in which a troop of soldiers......more

To my everloving shame, I seem to have waylayed my reading of these books for a bit more than a decade. Oops. But apart from a few minor quibbles I had with the series from before, I really did enjoy them. Their direct and not-so-direct homages to WoT, the traditional feel of quest-laden fantasy and......more

I'm still committed to finishing the series, but this is beginning to get tedious. Undoubtedly Goodkind gets paid by the word, because he keeps repeating things. He repeats things over and over. Granted, in a series this long, one needs to repeat things that the reader may have forgotten. But one do......more

Over the course of the last year I've been enjoying my reread of the Sword of Truth series. Phantom was me finally hitting a fresh and new instalment of the series as the first time around I caught up with publication and lost track of the series after I read Chainfire. It is good to finally be push......more

It has taken me eleven years to get through this book. I mean, I’m being hyperbolic, because reading this felt like it took forrreevvver, but I’m also being literal. I started this series in summer 2009. It has never taken me so long to get through a series. I did the Wheel of Time in three years, a......more