User blog comment:Masa the Seeker fanatic/Review on The Third Kingdom by Terry Goodkind: A Spoiler Alert!/@comment-47.23.64.250-20130920164057

Just finished it. I think it had the potential, "potential" to be the best of all the books. Scary, deep, and well rooted. But Ben died, for no reason, Nicci seems weak all of a sudden, Zedd never figured anything out, and Richard, yet again, is unable to do anything with his gift. What's the point of his being a War Wizard 15 friggin books deep, if he can't do a thing with it?

There was no conclusive end here either. Maybe an epilogue would have helped all of us understand wth just happened. The dead king and Arc are pretty freaky, and debolical as all hell. BUT, the way that it had Richard NOT be put to death by Arc, the time it took for the Mord Sith to get him and bring him to Arc, and the fact that they all left him in the tunnels and started marching away, was a comlete disconnect. All I said above aside, you would think that Arc is now an idiot, and who can respect a dummy villain?

Richard needs to either get back into the Temple of the Winds somehow and get the full monty on his abilities, or the series needs to end. I have been reading this series since the 8th grade, and have always sat at the edge of the chair so to speak. It has been a constant let down. Mr. Goodkind, let him be the badass that he should be, squash all opposition, and make your readers go  "holy crap, that is what I call a War Wizard!!!"

RK

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