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Sent in by: Nick Beckett
This series has so far been littered with ups and not-so-far-ups.
It seems that Terry Goodkind's work can sometimes fluctuate in its quality and this latest
offering is unfortunately an extreme example.
For one, it just does not have the scope of previous instalments, nor does it possess any true
sense of menace.
Second, in many ways, it is a very 'personalised' volume. This isn't on its own a bad thing,
but the genre does not usually support such outings, and quite frankly, it is not particluarly
Mr G's forte.
The writing also suffered from a quite slapdash approach, although I suspect that the editor was
asleep at the wheel on this one. This reads like a draft to me.
There are examples of poor prose, rambling sentences and questionable grammer throughout.
On top of it all, VERY LITTLE SEEMS TO HAPPEN (an unforgivable sin in books of this type).
My apologies to the author for the harsh words, but he can do a lot better.
I know he can do a lot better because I've followed him through a previous four volumes and, by
and large, have loved every minute.
Let's look forward to book 6 and forget this one pretty darned quickly!
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Sent in by: Michelle Schneider
I have read a lot of negative reviews for Soul of
the Fire. Many people think that not much happened.
I believe that Terry Goodkind must be working up to
somthing big. Richard has learned a lot more about
using his gift in this book. I will reserve judgement
until I see how this book works into the next.
