Hmm...I don't think it was that the power was evil, but that the path they were following with it was evil. Which doesn't negate your point (power found on your own=evil isn't a lot better than power=equal)

There were so, so, so many problems with this book, but I couldn't stop reading it. I think some Twilight fans feel the same way. (Except that I couldn't read more than one page of it, and everything i've ever hard about it just sounds awful...this one actually has some merit buried insode...)