A review by pam_d
Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind

3.0

To start with I did like this book. However I have some quibbles that bothered me. #1 - Now that we are on book #8 it is really kind of tiresome to do back story in the context of the novel. Just do a prologue or something to get everyone up to speed and get on with the story.#2 - Did we really just spend the entire book #7 developing a character that is going away in the end of this book? Not only that but Jennson's goat had a larger part in this book than she did. I'm just a bit confused. #3 - How in the world did Richard just suddenly discover a new aspect of his gift at the very end that conveniently saves not only Kahlan but also spontaneously becomes a quite talented herbalist (also supposedly a part of his gift)to save himself? And we had no little glimmers of erupting gift along the course of the book to make this plausible. #4 - Getting just a bit preachy Richard!