For the first time in all the books in this series I found myself not enjoying this one. The original series with the first 11 books is my favourite of all time and I just speed through them and wish for more everytime Im done with one.
Then came the after series with these 4 books. I debated if I should read them or not, as the Sword of Truth had a great ending and I was happy and sastified as it was. But I just love this world so I decided to read them.
The first 2 books in this second series of Richard and Kahlan, book 12 and 13, were decent. While they lacked a bit and had a lot of repetition in them and felt a little like he was pushing the story when it should have ended, but I still raced through them and loved them.

But this book I just simply cant love to its fullest. Half the book is repetition. The word Occult is being used way too much, to the point where I started skipping every line with it in and finding myself annoyed. Many places he could have easily found other more shorter ways of xplaining something, yet he repeats, writing the same thing only in different words. A lot.
It feels ilkes he's simply trying to fill out the pages with as many words as posible. Either because hes grown tired of this story and is running low on ideas, or because he has a deadline he wants to keep, more than creating quality like we know it from the previous books.
We are used to perfect detailed clarifications after an event that one of the main characters have missed. This time though, those recaps were either too short in some places, or too long and dreary in others.
Near the end of the book it finally starts to catch my attention and I raced to the ending like I always do with his books. Then came the ending. Its great in itself, and makes sense to those of us who understands this world. However it is way too short and lack details and feels a bit like hes skimping over events he would normally have spent longer on.
Until near the end of the book I had decided not to read the last book, this one just ruined the world for me. But after reading the ending Im going to finish this series and Im looking forward to the last book.
I would overall recommend to everyone having read the first 11 books who havent yet started on these 4, to leave it be. Let this world end after Confessor. Keep your own imagination from there on.
2 stars for the first 3/4 of the book, 3 for the ending.