Book 38: Chainfire

I started reading Chainfire what seems like forever ago and the beginning is very foggy in my memory. I didn't enjoy it as much as any of the other books in the series. I didn't think it was possible for Richard to be more whiny than he was but alas it was possible indeed.

I really enjoyed Wizards Ninth Rule:

"A contraction cannot exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole. To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy - to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. A thing is what it is, it is itself. There can be no contradictions. " (Page546)

As most of the Wizard's Rules are very applicable to our everyday lives. They aren't just for wizards.

Overall I didn't like the book all that much. I found that Richard was far too whiny. For this reason I give it five arrows out of ten. The story must go on.