Review: Wonderful but Wordy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2012
I enjoy Terry Goodkind"s books and I enjoyed this one. His control of language is superb and the characters are well defined and believable. It is easy to identify with Magda as she battles the loss of her husband and the insidious evil seemingly everywhere. I gave this a four star review because I had trouble in the first half of the book where there are endless monologues and conversations (overly broken up into paragraphs) that did not progress the story, build an environment or in any way explain the magical context - it could be crisper without detracting from the book. The second half was much better and moved along quite smartly, eventually reaching the hoped-for conclusion. The characterization of her eventually-defeated antagonist, Lothain was wonderfully evil.Cheers to Terry Goodkind for publishing an ebook, bypassing the strictures of a traditional publisher. Would the publisher's editor have improved it?