Soul of the Fire

Goodkind introduces a new group of people and characters in order to work within the larger plot. At times, this book did not even feel like part of the series. The new stories and characters are engaging in their own right. Oddly, there is a lot of repetition in the book, where a character might think the same thing two sentences apart or tell someone the same thing more than once in dialogue. That, and the typos in my kindle version were jarring to me in that they took me back out of the story with the realization that I am just reading a book.

This book in the series started to try my patience with the series. As much as I liked the characters and wanted to know what happens to them, I found it hard to get past the same story of the 2 main characters being torn apart by magical forces and coming up with complicated ways of dealing with them (that usually involves Richard being ‘super' smart to figure out what no one else knows or has figured out in the last 1000 years). Can't say I was overly impressed.