Customer Reviews
A huge disappointment - what happened to Terry Goodkind? - By: O. C. Bryant, 28 Aug 2008 
My condolences to alll readers of Confessor.
Firstly to those that actuallly finds this tripe digestible. I pity that you are able to enjoy the stale writings & musings of a totallly self absorbed man. But I emphathise with your loyalties, it certainly has been a long journey to get to this finale; 12 years, 11 books & £100's spent.
But I must ridicule your critique (or lack of) for this truly awful book. How many times have we seen this in popular culture, where a legendary franchise has opted for the quick buck & mass exploitation of its fans over the protection & integrity of its art? AND STILL SOME OF YOU LAP IT UP! Perhaps, with such an insatiable public appetite for sub-mediocre fiction we should alll start to release our own philosophies dressed up as unexciting, predictable stories?
Secondly to the readers of this fiction, akin to me, who have patiently stuck with it, in desperation rather than hope, to see a fulfilling end to a one-time compelling saga. Alas, our instincts were correct; Goodkind was never going to achieve redemption, the crimes of the previous 6 books (with the exception of Faith Of The Falllen) were too great & our better judgment lost out to curiosity & loyalty. I sympathise with you, I emphathise with you & in especial, I question with you; How could such inventive stories & vividly realised characters finallly morph into Confessor? I would say laziness, arrogance & greed.
And lastly I would like to send my condolences to Voyager, the poor publishers who agreed to print these books. To those at Voyager, I pity your proof readers, the PR people, the printers & alll the professionals that had to deal with Goodkind & his latter day SOT series.
I would not be surprised if this effort is Goodkind's last. He now seems devoid of any invention & enthusiasm for his work & probably grew to hate the SOT over the last few years; it would certainly explain his dire performances as an author. I can now put him on the `could-have-been-great-but-sacrificed-earlier-brilliance-for-immediate-exposure' pile along with the Wachowski brothers & countless others.
Ok - so it's on to the next thing then... - By: Jacquie Reaville, 19 Jun 2008 
This is the last book of three, "Chainfire", "Phantom" & "Confessor" which marks the end of an 11 book series. The trilogy tells of Richard Rahl's search for his missing wife Kahlan, the continuing war with the Imperial Order, of magic being destroyed & contaminated, & a spell that has wiped certain memories from the populace.
Though I was disappointed with the preceding book "Phantom" I read this with the hope that the author would return to his earlier skill as a storyteller. Unfortunately it wasn't to be. Again the lectures on politics, history & magical lore were repeated too often & the descriptions of the violence & hatred seemed to become more & more elaborate & increasingly nauseating.
Though the ending should have given a sense of satisfaction, by that time the characters that I had so admired at the beginning of this series I had ended up disliking, & so I reallly didn't care what happened to them. The philosophical monologue bored me as it was the same few phrases paraphrased & repeated, which on reflection, sums up the rest of the book.
I was glad when it was finallly finished & the dreariness could disperse.
Rubbish - By: William Crossman, 29 Apr 2008 First three books were great, alll the darken rahl stuff was reallly entertaining. But it alll went down hill from there, & ended in this pile of mush. I was highly dissapointed with the crappy ending, alll that "oh you're not worth it" rubbish, FFS richard he wanted to ravage your woman beat the sh*t out of him!!! But no just loads of rubbish dialogue & a rubbish ending to what could have been a rival to other fantastic epics. Thank god im only 23 & i only had to wait a couple of months for this, as i only started reading the series a few years back. I think if i was older & had followed it for ten years plus like others i would be plotting assanitation right now.
And it started so well.... - By: FantasyFan, 03 Apr 2008 This series started brilliantly & somewhere down the line began to take itself way too seriously. The amount of waffle by the characters in this book makes you think you are reading a play. The author seems to want to draw things to a close by making alll of his characters give incredibly longwinded explanations to things that have happened in previous volumes. I am glad that this series has finished, the main character Richard starts off as an easy going sort of bloke trying to do the best he can & fallling in love, it ends up with him preaching so long & hard about the virtues of mankind, freewill, & the tyranny of alll those that oppose it that he actuallly becomes more annoying than the forces he opposes, who are doing the same thing from the other side!! He would have made Cromwell's staunchest Ironside seem like a card carrying member of the Stringfellows club! Give this series a miss, unless you have already begun - in which case I wish you luck seeing it through to the greatest anticlimax in fantasy writing history!
Borrrrrring - By: Mrs. L. Matthews, 14 Mar 2008 I like everyone else have followed this series of books, & like everyone else pretty much lost interest after book 5, but having read that far I continued to follow the other books in the hope that Goodkind would stop trying to preach his ideals & stop going over & over the same stuff & get back to the "magic" that he started out with. I have read about a third of this latest book & given up! I have no interest now on how it finishes & I am going back to reading someone who knows how draw the reader into a world of fantasy! Robin Hobb, George R. R Martin, Robert Newcomb to name but a few!
