Already I was very disappointed by the last trilogy. I was betting heavily on this volume to still believe the talent of Terry Goodkind book but it was very disappointing. Our author is on a slippery slope. His book is solely commercial. We have a total 497 pages with 86 chapters and between each chapter, there is a blank page and the size of the writing is twice as large as that of his first books. And with all that, it was sold to 25E as his first books but we have twice as much to read. In addition, must be read up to a third of the book to find some rebondisssements. I can not get to experience the same emotions I felt when reading the first books. All the best of Terry Goodkind is well behind us, alas, to my dismay.