I figured that since it was the last book of the series, I'd reread the entire series from the beginning, and finish off with the three that I hadn't read before. Several years passed and I was surprised to find that Confessor was about to be realeased and that I had missed Chainfire and Phantom. I was so disgusted with Naked Empire when it first came out that I pretty much just stopped paying attention to Terry Goodkind and the Sword of Truth. So, I figured I'm not reading anything at the moment, might as well knock out another Sword of Truth review. It's a very lazy and mind-numbing book that I cannot recomend to anyone. It's like he's forgotten how to write action, or a compelling story, and substitutes recaps of his better work, and cheap descriptions of action scenes after the fact. Goodkind has a real problem with telling instead of showing here. The vast majority of the action scenes that take place in this book are told to us after the fact by characters recounting what happened, rather than allowing us to experience them ourselves. The ending does not redeem the rest of the book up to it. The problem is that the 650 pages before them are soul-crushingly terrible, full of a ridiculous amount of recapping previous books, Goodkind telling us things we already know, endless technobabble about prophecy that might as well be giberish, and an absolutely insane amout of repetition in the dialog. TL DR - The last 100 pages of this book are very good.

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