Pillars of Creation is definitely a good book. But the thing is, it is actually worse than previous books, which are masterpieces. Pillars of Creation is just not dynamic.
The story stops developing after a while, characters just stop learning facts. They just run from Richard Rahl, then they run for Richard Rahl. And only with appearence of Richard himself, storyline begins developing again.
Secondly, characters are less developed. Sure, the book is short (Stone of the Tears was twice longer) and there is simply not enough time for them to fully develop.
Thirdly, there is absolutely no intrigue. Goodkind's philosophy has completely developed in Faith of the Fallen and the story is completely predictable.
Lastly, Terry Goodkind is still obsessed with rape.
But, as I already said, Pillars of Creation is definitely a good book.

I started reading Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth by a recommendation of a friend. At first I wasn't quite sure what I would think of the book. I went to the library and amazing enough, they had just received it not too long ago, the first book of the series, Wizard's First Rule. First page of the first book had gotten me hooked and ever since then I had been pouring over all his books the moment I can buy it. When I had gotten to Pillars of Creation, it was not what I had expected. I do not mind having subcharacters inside the book, but I found myself getting bored quite easily with it. A rare thing when reading Terry's material. I kept on checking to see how close I was to the ending in hopes of finishing it. I was even tempted to just stop right there and then and start the other. But, I hate quitting and reading the next book would leave holes in parts of the story I know I wouldn't understand. It was not his best work in my opinion. I'm sure others would greatly disagree with me. I just could not read it too much and it took me three times as long to read the book as the others. All his other books are great, apart from severe mushyness, and addictive as ever. I hope that is the last book of his that I read that becomes disappointing and boring.

I am very surprised at some of the reviews for this book. I came across this book by accident and did not realise it was the 7th book in a series until I was almost done reading this extraordinary story about a young girl's adventure. After I finished reading this book I could not wait to go to the book store and pick up the Wizards First Rule so I could enjoy more of this captivating author from the beginning of this journey. I understand that people in general do not like change and I know now this book is completely off the path but I guess I was lucky to find this book first and enjoy this story without any preconcieved notions. My advise to you is pick this book up, forget for the first few chapters there ever were six previous books and just enjoy the adventure of a girl. You will find that this book is just as great as all the rest.