Kristine N. (krisjnic) reviewed on 10/14/2010

Helpful Score: 1

Obviously by all the reviews this series creates pretty diverse responses in readers. I picked it up because I was curious about the Legend of the Seeker TV show, which I never actually watched. I read the first three books in the series and agree that it is compelling reading - for me it was the imagination that produced the world and the background that the story is based on. But also like other reviewers, I found the run-on sentences to be ridiculous, as well as the contrasts between tasteful and honorable treatment of sex versus the gory details of the violence to be rather unbalanced. In fact, a lot of the emotion was quite forced and I found myself laughing or rolling my eyes at some of the descriptions that seemed so teenage-boy-fantasy: hot dominatrices in tight red leather brandishing both torture and seduction, blood, guts, and gore, talking dragons, the strong and beautiful heroine all in white, wizards and sorceresses, ... throw it all in there! For the creativity, I enjoyed reading it, but I doubt I will read any more of the series.

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