Review: I love it and hate it all at the same time
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
I have read every book in this series and will most likely read the rest.  The heroes are heroic enough that you cheer for them.  But the bad guys are so bad it makes for hard reading.  Good always triumphs so far, but the cost to Alexander continues to take it's toll.  It reminds me so much of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth books.  Good people with good magic are continually trapped, injured, bested sometimes by the simplest things.  Richard and Kahlan hardly have a moments peace before another truly evil being is trying to end their lives.  Same with Alexander and Isabel.  For me, evil and cruelty for its own sake is hard to read.  The madness of Phane Reishi is just chilling.  You cannot reason with a madman and yet Isabel keeps trying to do just that.  And is appalled when he doesn't respond.And it is so long between books that I forget who is who and what their contribution to the story is.The Linkershim were truly wondrous and all the magical beings that Alexander is setting free should make the Seven Isles a place of breathtaking beauty once this is all over with.  Mr. Wells??  When all the evil is done and the Seven Isles are restored to its original magical brilliance, can we have a book about that?  The Wizard's Keep restored?  All the good things that will happen because of Alexander's stand for the Old Law?