Sword of Truth series?

[Captain Stern]

6. I'd skip it....there's way better stuff out there.

The series actually starts really well. Goodkind isn't a bad writer. He builds a good fantasy world, and actually creates a few characters that you can emphasize with. He moves the story along pretty well, and I felt that I was getting a rewarding read for the money. This feeling lasted for all of five books.

The sixth book (Faith of the Fallen) takes a complete side track from the main story. 'Faith of the Fallen' should be called 'Atlas Shrugged- Fantasy Style......or 'Richard Shrugged'. I wish I was kidding. It's not like the author is sneaking a little Objectivism in, like he already had......this is actually the book Ayn Rand would write if she wrote Fantasy. It's embarrassing.
I could have lived with that, if Goodkind had gotten back to telling the main story in the subsequent book, but he didn't. The next book focuses on entirely new characters, and barely touches on the central storyline developed, and left unresolved, in the first five books.

At that point, I accepted that Goodkind had found a cash cow, and was milking it for all it was worth. I haven't read any of the subsequent books in the series.