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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 4021900" data-attributes="member: 20741">I actually liked Wizards' First Rule a lot. For fat fantasy fiction, it was reasonably original and engaging.My problem with Goodkind is in the sequels which follow it. Wizard's First Rule was not written with an ongoing storyline in mind. The sequels accordingly had retconning in terms of world construction and you could SEE that Goodkind had no frigging idea where the story was going as he was writing it. The man famously does not use an outline to write this series - and it shows. It shows BADLY, imo.So the sequels - not my cuppa tea. Others will disagree of course. I think the greatest weakness in the sequels, apart from the above problems, is that Goodkind becomes quite derivative in his characters, organizations, and plot flow. That's a very hard thing to avoid in the genre, so as a sinner he is in good company. Still, that does not make the observation any less true - or obvious.That said, the first novel is a good one and the characters work well. It's well worth reading, imo.</blockquote>