Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: I could not bear to finish this one....

I really enjoyed the first volume in this series. There were one or two places where I winced at the obvious "borrowing" of characters and concepts from other fantasy series, but there was a lot of creativity there to counterbalance those minor lapses.I cannot say the same about this second volume. I was shocked at concept after concept that appeared to have been lifted directly from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, shifted slightly in context, then placed into Goodkind's storyline.Eventually I became too distracted by the large amounts of "borrowed" material to be able to enjoy the creative and original aspects of the story (which were less in evidence here than in the first volume), so I am sending this one off to the used book store -- unfinished.