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Submitted by Bryan Widstrand 
(Jun 04, 2002)

I was on vacation in Colorado when my older brother began reading "Wizard's First Rule". When he away from the book, I picked it up and started reading. From the first, I loved the characted Richard. He was a noble hero in times of trouble. The tension between him and his closest friends kept me on edge the whole book. I stayed in the hotel room, faking sick, to read the book while my family went rock climbing, a hobby of mine. I continued to read the entire day, and all that night. I finished the book just as we were up to go. I was about ready to continue my vacation when I saw my brother had the second book...

Note:Thank you Terry, for the inspiration you have given me. I look at the world differently and with more understanding for what you have wrote. Keep it up!

Based on recommendations, I picked up this book. After the first 10 pages, I began to wonder why I was recommended this book. As I progressed, I became increasingly aware of how BAD this book was. The characters are shallow, the feeling is non-existent. The author tries to create an emotional scene (the speech) and instead we get this sense of the pathetic... Don't read it.. Try Martin's Ice and Fire series or Jordan's Wheel of Time instead.

Personally this book gave me hope. As I've read it once and finished it, I felt like I needed or had to read again. Never before have I been lost and taken to that world! The paper and text didn't matter because somehow I felt to soaked in the story, that everything around me disappeared and only reappeared when I let it to. Terry Goodkind found something to which he could put his imagination and what came was a seriously top-quality story, it moved me in more ways than one. I cannot explain the feeling (because I'm not supposed to. This is a book review!) so I won't. Wizards First Rule is about Love between Ricahrd Cypher and Kahlan, and how they connect to one-another, I can't redeem the fact that this book is somewhat magical and to the climatic point becomes unputdownable! You'll read until you (literally) fall asleep.

I completely loved this book. I bought it one summer on the way up to the cottage for a weekend, and I
finished it that weekend. I'd read 100 pages per read, and I am not the kind of guy who sits and reads all day. Never before had I read the first two chapters of a book in a row. I just love how Goodkind gets into the characters' heads and tells you what they're thinking. Throughout reading this book, I got that feeling that you get when you finish a really amazing book, but I had it the whole time. It felt so good to read it after reading all the edgy crud that I was use to. It was like eating eggs and bacon for breakfast after eating only corn flakes for a week. Anyway, a damn fine book, probably about #2 on my list, next to Tolkien.

I just want to start off by saying that Terry Goodkind is remarkable, and captured my mind with this book. To this date I have only read Wizard's First Rule, and Im starting Stone Of Tears today. At first I read 5 pages, and I didn't think I would be able to get into it, but all of a sudden I was over a hundred pages in, and could hardly put it down. My boyfriend bought me the series, because his copies were in a different city, and thought I might enjoy them. WOW, was he right. The romance, the suspence, just the whole drama of it captures you and puts your right in with the charecters. I can't wait to find out what will become of Kahlan and Richard in the rest of the books, oh ya and good ole Zedd. Hope everyone else that gets the chance to read this book will enjoy it as much as I did. -Contessa