Thry start off okay, but God do they go on. I made it through to the end, so did my wife, but both of us regret wasting so much time on the last half of the series. Just read the first 3 or so and you'll have read them all, at least in theme, as the author just goes back the same well over and over again until it's dry, then when the horse dies of dehydration he starts just kicking and kicking and kicking the shit out of that horse. If you think this analogy is being stretched a bit thin then you will think the premise of Sword of Truth is stretched even thinner.