Great addition to the story line. I love this series, this is one of the first TSOT books that I didn't feel like every chapter had an explanation from previous books and flowed really well. I get tired of reading reviews from people who hate on Goodkind. His characters are well developed and likable. If you can get past the rehashing of history from the other books and get the meat of the story, they all are brilliant.

A great prequel to the Sword of Truth series :)