Very disappointing 41

Bitten by the Sword of Truth saga and after 4 exciting tomes, I bought Volume 5. Extremely disappointing! While there was material to develop ever exciting plot, the author leaves completely drop the story line qq after dozens of pages to lose ourselves in stories without interest that take anywhere. Kahlan, Zedd and Richard our heroes are left out in favor of a long description of banquets and customs of a new country, while the end of the magic and the world is going on from the beginning. Exhausting, we expect the action to the end, and finally all the intrigue and drama unravel (or are created to prepare the following) in a few pages, not to say that the author just dump it in few lines. There are 500 pages of rest in this novel. I'm not sure to continue the saga tome as it seemed to me to make fun of the reader, the author sell us empty. I throw in the towel if the volume 6 is of the same ilk.