Onward through my hate-read of The Sword of Truth series.  I get to tell my favorite retail customer asshole story.  And I get to talk about my time on Atlas Shrugged II.  Also, Goodkind gets tired of his main characters, so he tells a tale of two bad guys who think they are good guys — par for the course for Objectivists.  Also, more rape.  Because women are THINGS.  Sexy leg lamp THINGS.

The very last of the full series of the Nightside books.  John Taylor must take one final case.  And then one more.  I was really digging this despite it going all Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.  But the ultimate few chapters were kind of disappointing and the series became a letdown.  Only three more series sets to complete the full Simon Green!

The almost-kinda penultimate book in the Nightside series. John Taylor finds himself wielding Excalibur, and even though he’s not worthy, he has to stop the impending elf wars.  He ends up having to track down King Arthur to restore him to greatness and lead the London Knights into battle to save the world. Green once again starts leaning a little heavier on his other series to get help.

For all the events that finally transpire in this, book ten of the Nightside series, it all ends up coming off rather castaway and anti-climatic.  It actually introduces a few elements from the Shadows Fall book, but only in brief passing and again, just sort of casually.  Where it ends is right where book eleven begins, and hopefully with a bigger splash considering HOW it ends. CBR #32 – Elf Yourself

A horrid mishmash of what seemed like a short story collection blended to oblivion and forced into a huge narrative novel.  It just keeps kind of going without really adding much to the massive canon.  Read this to mark it off the checklist.  It’s always a bad sign when the front cover blurb is the author telling you he thinks it’s his best work. CBR #31 – The Literary Equivalent of Rachel’s Trifle

Richard quits to go be a hobbit, but a weird Sister of the Dark kidnaps him with a MacGuffin spell and forces him into Atlas Shrugged.  No, seriously.  Goodkind isn’t even fucking trying to be subtle.  I’m surprised someone wasn’t trying to build a goddamn train from Altur’Rang to Aydindril. CBR #30 – Vacation, All I Ever Wanted, Vacation, Time To Get Away