They seem to remember that the pages should not be blank but can’t remember what was originally written there. However, Goodkind does it so often that it’s become more tedious that anything else. He fumbles around, not really sure what he’s doing, strains, trying to force it, and then gives up. The premise of the book, that a spell has caused memory of Kahlan disappear from everyone’s minds except Richard’s, is new for Goodkind. There is a part near the end of the book, right before the climax where Weeks weaves two scenes with very contrasting tones and tempos together. I don’t even know what to call it, where he just describes what Richard plans to do and why for about 9 pages. You don’t need to have people say the exact same things back and forth for seventeen years to get the point across. Goodkind, the first five books of this series were great fantasy, but now I am tired of chasing Richard and Kahlan. Generally, when you have multiple storylines going on within the larger story, you tend to keep the pacing uniform across all of the storylines. No one is going to pick up book 9 of a series without reading at least a few of the eight that came before it. This is an extremely lazy and incompetent way of telling a story. We are told that Nicci inadvertently fed it some of Richard’s blood. Shota utters the words ” Chainfire ” and “The Deep Nothing “, terry that Richard hand over the Sword of Truth to Samuel for this meager information. The ending does not redeem the rest of the book up to it. Chainfire: Chainfire Trilogy Part 1 – Goodkind Terry The arrow gradually becomes a metaphor for Richard’s faults as the book progresses. People are stupid” what kind of fellow Terry Goodkind is. At some point around book five somebody alerted him to the notion of Objectivism, and he’s converted his series to be a mechanism for bad objectivist propaganda. Reading through it now But in these books I feel like I care about Richard and Kahlan way more than those other characters. These are not conversations, or character interactions. vg++ condition In stock shipped from our UK warehouse. Chainfire on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Chainfire: Chainfire Trilogy, Part 1 (Sword of Truth, Book 9) on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.