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I finally bought a copy of Terry Goodkind’s lastest book: Phantom. It’s book 10 of The Sword of Truth series and book 2 of The Chainfire Trilogy that will bring an end to The Sword of Truth series. Does that make any sense? Even though many elements of The Sword of Truth are similar to Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, this series hasn’t become as boring and as full of fluff as The Wheel of Time. There hasn’t been a bad book in the series…except for book 7…book 7 was just annoying.

The only thing that bothered me about this book was all the technical jargon that wizards, witches, and sorceresses used when speaking of their craft. I never knew that spell casting was so math-oriented.

I did notice a trend that I liked. It seemed like whenever I was expected something tragic to happen, the good people usually turned out on top. It may have been an unrealistic string of good luck, but I can live with that. I’m tired of all the good guys falling on hard times in the books that I read. Of course, the good guys do have some bad luck, just not all the time. It wouldn’t be interesting if everything went their way.

I won’t give away the plot, but Phantom has a lot of the attributes that made me a fan of The Sword of Truth in the first place. Many incidents from the previous 9 books in the series tie directly into the plot of this one. Once I started I had trouble putting it down. After reading Phantom I’m really looking forward to reading the final book in the series. Currently, it’s expected to be released in 2008.