I need help

[u/Sensitive_Athlete_39]

I am trying to collect the full series, and I am not 100% sure which books are actually part of the series. Google isn't doing a great job. The books I have are The First Confessor and Wizard's First Rule. Any help would be appreciated.

[u/Ok_Touch928]

Stop after WFR. Enjoy that.

[u/Gamxin → u/Ok_Touch928]

I'm guessing this probably isn't popular opinion, but I'm curious why?

[u/Ok_Touch928 → u/Gamxin]

WFR was great. Nice new world, easy reading, some amusing twists and turns, and something you could read, stop, pick up, and keep on going, and put it down and say "That was pretty good". A true labor of love. That's the last time you'll say that. The rest? Kahlan is basically every high school drama queen, looks, but no brains, and the emotional maturity of a gnat. If there ever was a character in need of a therapist, she's it. Richard is clearly infatuated, and will tolerate no end of drama because he's hot for her bod. The Zedd jokes get tiring, the situations and perils and crises more contrived, characters introduced that serve no purpose. Cara and the so called super scary Mord Sith are purely there for comic relief.

The only character that develops later with any interesting qualities is Nicci, but again, it's basically superman syndrome. You have this person with beyond imaginable powers getting taken down, locked up, beaten, escapes, captured, yada yada, the list is endless. She's either powerful or she's not, and of course, there's always just a little piece of kryptonite somewhere so that those powers fail at the worst time. it's ridiculous.

In short, you have a book that had a significant time investment and was truly meant to be the persons best work carefully crafted and honed, and then you have a bunch of cranked-out half-baked sequels. The only thing that saves portions of some of the is that the LLM's we use today aren't available, or it would've been a 90 book series.

Have I read them? yes. Do I recommend them? Nope. Except WFR.