<human>: So, I'm a huge reader. I've read a metric buttload of novels ranging from Harry Potter to A Brave New World and all the way back to ASOIAF.

I went to r/booksuggestions the other day and asked for a new book to get into, someone pointed me to Terry Goodkind's The First Confessor. I read a brief intro and thought it sounded exciting, so I picked it up. (Kindle edition.)

Good god, this is awful. But before you rage, hear me out. 

Reading this book is like going to the Botanical Gardens with Mr. Goodkind. You walk through the entrance and immediately to your right is a beautiful, red rose. Terry says, "Hey, (reddit user), I think we should stop to look at this rose." So you do. It's a nice rose.

You walk on a bit and spy an orchid. Now Terry says, "Hey, (reddit user), I think we should stop to talk about that rose back there." So you do, after all it was a quite nice rose. 

Now you walk on a bit more and come across a daisy. Once again, Terry stops you to say something. "Hey, (reddit user), we should go back and look at that rose again."

It's quite aggravating. The worst part is that I like what I see, I just get tired of hearing it. He will refer to something and then allude to it with the heaviest possible and probably like thirty times a chapter. And then the next three chapters are all about the same thing. 

I am a third of the way through the book and a total of five events have happened, excluding the death of her husband because it happened off screen. 

I don't know why I posted this here, other than I needed to rant at someone and this is a reddit (good for ranting) about books (the subject of my rant).

Anywho, feel free to argue with me. I would love a counterpoint.

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<bot>: I think Terry Goodkind's The Last Confessor is a brilliant exercise in the necessity of an editor/publisher. Fite me irl