Review: "WIZARD" GOODKIND IS BACK WITH ANOTHER GREAT SERIES
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2012
A few years ago, I worked my way through "THE SWORD OF TRUTH "series and hated it when I finished reading them.  I enjoyed reentering the world of wizards and the story of how the first confessor was created.  This iis an excellent beginning to the new series that the author is planning.  I hope we won't have to wait a year for the next one."The First Confessor (The Legend of Magda Searus)"  tells how not how and why the first confessor was created but how and why the Sword of Truth was fashioned and how it was named.  We knew from SofT what the sword stood for and "TFC-TLofMS" explains how the Confessor,  Wizard, and Sword are meant to work as one.  Even the boxes of Orden are involved and we find out how Rahl acquired them. One of the things that I liked in this book was discovering that at the beginning the Rahl's were not the evil tyrants that they were in SofT series.In SofT, they were fighting for all people to live the life that they wanted without fear.  It didn't matter if you were gifted or not, you should be able to live without fear of being killed because you have abilities that others did not.  In this series, we see the beginning, when they first started fighting and why it took so many years for another War Wizard, a wizard with both sides of magic to be bornI wanted to thank Mr. Goodkind for going the self-publishing route.  I know that he could have received a huge advance if he went through Tor or another publishing house.  I hope that this is very successful for him so that he continues to publish his own work.  That way if he has it ready in February of 2013 he can put it out instead of the publisher saying that it will be released in July, one year after the this one and as this one is put out as a trade paperback.  Some of his fans are upset because they don't have e-readers but they obviously have computers or they wouldn't know about this book and since there Amazon has free aps for both MAC, PC & others, they have no reason that they cannot read the book.I think over the next decade many authors will follow his example and I believe that in some cases the books will be better.  By publishing their own books, they can take time and write the book they want instead of being on a deadline or having to wait to publish a new book.  This book is proof that self-publishing doesn't equal lower quality.