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Several things I find making this book the least in the series. First the first half of it felt like a rereading of the previous book and utter filler that accomplished more on getting from point A geographical location to Point B while the plot never moving beyond Point A in the first place. Second, have the characters forgotten everything they had when dealing with a pristinely ungifted army? Is Richard, the Seek of Truth really so much of a idiot to forget loopholes he and Zedd abused in the past to get around magic immunity? Third, a character suffers the ultimate humiliation of a scripted death scene. Meaning they were handed a script and told to die, end of story. No recourse and nothing of matter results from it. It felt utterly a waste. How can such a death be utterly flat? Word of warning there are two major deaths and they are both flat as pancakes and not nearly as tasty. Fourth and finally this book is filled with cliches that aren't even used in a innovative way. Nothing was expanded upon or reinvented in trying to make them interesting. Instead we get old and tired. Fifth, one of the newest characters who I happened to like was alienated because of Richard's idiocy being played to ten so he had no choice but to act even more stupid. Richard is the Seeker of Truth. Thinking with his head is what he's supposed to do even when he's half dead. If your going to alienate someone at least make the action and the causes the led up to such believable. The book had potential and for that it gets one star above the base, but that doesn't make it excusable. And by potential I say that in the same breath of Twilight and the Hunger Games having concepts that could have been so much more but were instead executed poorly that it had me screaming at the book. Some cases literally. I could have excused the first half filler if the second half of railroading the characters down a fixed course like a bad RPG had been done away with for something more natural. That would have netted it two more stars. Ultimately I can't see myself reading the series beyond this point if the next book is anywhere near as bad as this. I've never been this disappointed in a book before. Sorry Terry Goodkind but for once... I can't see the truth in this story. Best of luck and wishes on the next book. It may be my last.