I applaud Terry Goodkind on many levels I just don't know where to start with it. The plague and those annoying side characters Nadine and Drefan in book 4 I'd rather forget. I am sure the Jagang/Richard conflict will continue in the next book, frankly I didn't miss it all that much. I love those kind of build ups when two plot lines finally converge, it's immensely satisfying. Remember how Jondalar and Ayla in the Valley of Horses novel are each going about their own story then ultimately meet. Of course you knew from the beginning that eventually the old characters and new would come together in the end which lent a suspense factor. (Think propaganda and Hitler Jugend.) Oddly the story of the chimes really was secondary and though they had irish fairy tale like elements which interest me they were not as absorbing as the Anderith segment. And the clever politician Dalton and penance assemblies reminded more than horrifyingly of what Nazi Germany might have been like in some ways. I found the ease with which the indoctrined youth Finch was able to commit murder simply because he trusted he was doing the right thing fascinating in a terrifying way. At first I was confused, like other readers, by the in depth introduction of characters soley from that realm, but soon I became fascinated by the opressive society and their struggles. Anderith is also protected by an ancient magical death machine. The land of Anderith is the breadbasket of the midlands with endless supplies of grain, making it very desireable to the Imperial Order and their endless armies. The fifth book introduces a new culture entirely and I was fascinated by it. Indeed the fourth book was slow at first, but picked up at the end. I really loved the first 3 books, and felt that it could hardly go on so well.
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