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Title: Okay plot, awful writing
Review: I purchased this book and its sequel at the same time on the strength of the back-cover blurb. I won't ever make that mistake again. The writing is deeply, deeply terrible. The character's actions are completely at odds with the way they are described - the battle-hardened Lukien, whose life is war weeps every time a minor character dies - and we are constantly told, not shown, how we should be perceiving characters. If you have an extremely high tolerance for Terry Goodkind's worst, most pedantic writing you could conceivably enjoy this book. If you're looking for an intricately plotted, well-written work of epic scale to rival George R. R. Martin or Raymond E. Feist...look elsewhere.
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