Sword of Truth series< By Terry GoodkindFollow

I must say that Terry Goodkind got me hooked, it was first introduce to me when I was like.. geezes still in high school, Wizards First Rule.. awsome book.. soo awsome that I bought like 5 copies and gave them to my friends to read too... This first book is a great intro to the entire series and how everything comes to be. Its not too fantasy like and its not too sci-fi, its just perfect. Excellent and detailed, very capturing and entertaining... Its a slow start but read the first 50-100page in one sit-in and you wont put it down.. read the book in about 2days non-stop, so if you feel like being anti-social the weeken read this book you'l really enjoy it. Actually cried too = (. Good book well written! Buy it! or just borrow it = )

Terry goodkind is a good writer, that's for sure. Some of his earlier books I found a little on the strange side initially, but they get better the more you read.

I've enjoyed the series as well. Yeah. It suffers from "Drag things out to get more money" syndrome, but at least each book actually focuses on a different thing, with a new threat, and new concepts introduced. Unlike a certain other author who just seems to write the same story every book and just change the names and places... :)


The only negative I really have is that the bad guys just keep escalating. It starts with a "OMG! This bad guy is the worst thing that's ever happened! He must be stopped, or the world will end". Then it's "Ok. Now that you whacked that guy, you've opened the way for an even worse bad guy who will do even worse things to the worled!". Then it's "Oops! You stopped that threat, but now there's an even worser (hehe) threat...". I understand why that's necessary, but it gets just a touch old after awhile. I do think that's more then balanced with good writing and a story that actually moves well. There's enough time spent on the characters for you to understand their motives and their actions, but no so much that you feel yourself snoring, or skipping whole sections. Also, the new threats at least have a logical connection to eachother instead of just being the bad guy of the day. The world is logically laid out, and the actions that occur around the main characters make sense in the context of the world.

Most importantly, it's just a fun read. Sure, the "farmboy/orphan with the great destiny and unique magic" bit has been done a zillion times in both fantasy and sci-fi, but there's enough other stuff in there to make the series a really good read.

His characters are too rigid. They do the right thing because it is the right thing, always. They don't ever seem to do the right thing because it is what will work best in the situation they are in, and I don't recall any of them ever doing something wrong or bad to reach thier overall goal.

It is an okay read if I am out of other stories, otherwise it just sits on my shelves.

I liked the first couple books when I read them but the last 2 or 3 books in the series were booooorrrrriiiiinng.

Great series...I'm on the Naked Empire right now. Goodkind uses incredible detail...yeah, he drags some things on, but so do most authors...he's kept true to his style throughout the whole series.