Malheureusemùent for me, I was captivated by the story and became addicted Richard, Kahlan and Zed brave! Goodkind is also wonderful storyteller lamentable moralizing. Pages and pages, whole chapters almost unnecessary Manichean philosophy to the story, where evil is complacently and sadistically described. Vouchers must exterminate without mercy or remorse the wicked: any weakness, hesitation or negotiation would be complicity. Long live Bush and the CIA! What molasses coats this luminous tale! Also depending only exquisitely drugs, I will buy the Volume IX. Marion Zimmer Bradley, a sensitive woman author would have been well advised to read the following before issuing his praise now highlight of each volume.