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Title: Some good moments floating in a sea of mediocrity
Review: Glaring typographic errors, repeated phrases, huge plot discontinuities ...Man, but this book needed some serious editing. I don't know how many times Goodkind repeated the same basic thoughts in this book. Over and over, we read how Jennsen plans to "plunge her sword into Richard Rahl's chest." This exact phrase, or something quite similar, must appear ten times in the last part of the book. The book comes off as superficial and amateurish. If JRR Tolkien or Gene Wolfe is a 10 in terms of fantasy prose, then Goodkind is about a 2. On the other hand, there were some compelling moments, and I found the whole People's Palace sequence gripping.
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