Liz E. (peartree4000) reviewed on 3/9/2010 + 29 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

First of all, I have to state, for the benefit of my husband, that he HATED this book. He hated it within the first 5 chapters, however, due to the annoying trait that we both share he had to follow it all the way through and finish the book.

What did I think.... Well, I picked this book up to read at the end of August 2009. I finished it February 2010. 7 Months. 6 of those months were spent slogging through the first six chapters. It was painfully hard to read this book.

The writing is not that great. The characters are laughable and don't evoke me to care about them at all. The villains are less than impressive and not a bit threatening or scary.

Richard was such a ninny. Crying over everything. I couldn't be more disappointed in a lead male character if I read a million books. I was so sick of him by the end of the novel. The only person who had any type of potential at all was Kahlan but she came off as being so weak at times when she is supposed to be this great Mother confessor whom everyone fears. and Zedd. Gads! awful! the only thing he had going for him is that he actually USED his magic unlike wizards in other books.

I liked the idea of the story. The idea behind the plot is good, but it is lost in the telling and it just dragged on and on and on and on and on and on... you get the picture.

After five chapters of this I finally gave up and found the novel in MP3 so I could listen to it and just get it over with. I listened to the book while at work, and while listening to it I only had to devote half a brain to it. I got the important parts and anything I didn't find important I could just zone out for a while and it made no difference to the story.

There was so much raping and murdering of men, women and children. I did not approve of this, and I understand that the author was using this to show the evil of the villains, but there is a line that must be drawn on how much a person has to read.

I want to read good literature. I want to learn something and be uplifted. I want to feel for the characters in the books. This book left me wanting for all of these things, the only thing I got out of it was disgust.

I don't know that I ever would have finished this if I had had to READ the whole thing. Listening to it really is the only way I was able to finish it.

I will never recommend this book to another human being. I cannot support the author or his books.

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