First few books are great but Goodkind is a lunatic libertarian and he spends WAAAAYYYYY too much time spouting drivel. He doesn’t even attempt to be sneaky about it, to the point that I consider everything after book four to be propaganda.

I read the whole damn series when I was much younger. It turned into a slog and the end of the series was really bad. It went on far too long and quality went off the deep end. The last book in particular was terrible, even worse than the prior four or five. It seemed to me that he had a contractual obligation to finish but even he got bored with his own political ideology, story, and characters.