Then they leave the village to set out on this quest that Zedd urges them to pursue, with such urgency to the task.and they stop and contemplate what they're going to do next for a couple of CHAPTERS.

I couldn't stop laughing, and not in a good way. 'Soul of the Fire' starts out with Richard and the Birdman pursuing the 'chicken that's not a chicken', and though Kahlan thinks they're both crazy, she ends up being terrorized by this monster chicken as well, her life in danger. It's almost as if they said, 'We don't have to edit these books as tightly as we did before. As a writer, I know the editors are key in helping the writer shape the story into something consistent, but I think they may have taken a back seat because Goodkind's books got so popular. I'm not sure what's happened with the stories.either Goodkind got lazy or ran out of ideas OR his editors got lazy not caring about what they put on the shelves.

The only thing that has kept me reading are the characters, whom I have already fallen in love with. However, things start going south when you hit Book 5.

Book 4 is awesome and I couldn't put it down.

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