Rating: 
Summary: No action. No progress. Very disappointing
Review: I have eagerly anticipated the release of this book and the opportunity to touch base with the characters and story line that I have been hooked on for years in the hopes that Mr. Jordan would take us back to the heart of the main story and get away from the trends of his recent volumes. However, I read the entire book only to find that NOTHING HAPPENS! This latest edition seems to revolve around the characters reacting to one another with none of the action or provocative events so richly portrayed in the earlier books. The story has lost all focus with new characters and situations begin introduced with no resolutions being offered to the ones that we have been so patiently following. There was a time I would have put Robert Jordan just below Tolkien, with Goodkind and the rest just copy cats of their style, but the last two efforts in the Wheel of Time are making me long for a new Sword of Truth release!
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Summary: Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan
Review: After waiting 3 years to buy this book. I bought it the first time I spotted it in a bookstore. I took it home and read through all many hundreds of pages and when I completed the book, I knew nothing more than I knew after I read the previous book. This book was a big disappointment. Nothing was solved, no new details were revealed.Maybe if somebody gives me the next two or three books that it will take before the author finishes this story, I might read them, but not otherwise. Ten books is way too many for a series that builds book upon book.
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Summary: I thought someone had peeled an onion....
Review: ... but they hadn't. There were tears in my eyes at how atrocious this series has become. Lord of Chaos was the last great WOT book and, in light of the last four books, will probably remain so. In the midst of reading this book I kept hoping that the characters were real - not so that I could engage my ultimate fantasy of living in the WOT universe, but so I could wring their stupid, boring necks and tell them to do something... ANYTHING! Sometimes I read Crossroads of Twilight, but only very late at night when I can't get to sleep. I am up to page 278. Currently I am reading four pages each night, after which I feel mentally exhausted by the intellectually-crippling tedium of the proceedings that I immediately fall asleep. I used to listen to lectures on media law when I wanted to sleep, but now I have Crossroads of Twilight.
Rating:
Summary: Sadly disappointing
Review: I really have been in love with this series ever since I picked up Eye of the World at a friend's recommendation and hungrily consumed the next 8 books. I was never disappointed until now. This book is one big prologue to I don't know what. Absolutely nothing happens in it. There are no surprises. It's basically all rehash of things we've already read and already know about. In fact most of the individual prologues (Mat, Faline, Perrin, Egwene, etc.) All take place before the end of the last book. Of course I will buy the next book when it comes out, but if it is disappointing as this one, I'll have to drop the series. In the meantime I'm looking forward to George R.R. Martin's next isntallment in the Songs of Ice and Fire series which so far has not been a disappointment and has far surpassed Jordan in keeping me spellbound and turning the pages.
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Summary: A great addition to the middle of a long series...
Review: ... I don't want to put in any spoilers here, but suffice to say, so much had happened in the previous books, that we had begun to lose some of the multi-character perspective of the Wheel of Time series. Though I too was dissapointed that the story did not advance much, I will reread this book, and perhaps the entire series and appreciate the vast depths of this epic. Lets just hope that in the 18 months or so when book 11 comes out, Jordan takes advantage of our familiarity with the current state of the plot and moves things toward Tarmon Gaidon ever the more quickly.
Rating: 
Summary: The longest mile
Review: This book is interesting, but really unnecessary. It only drags out the series. you could have added the last chapter to the beginning of the next book. R.J. must be contracted for a 12 book series. I foretell 2 more books at two years between. I hope I live long enough to see the end.
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Summary: Crossroads of Boredom and Drivel(Spoiler)
Review: Just like the rest of the lads and lass's here, I have been a faithful reader of Robert Jordan since the very beginning(I even really liked his Conan contributions), but I will have to say this is one of the worst books I have read. This book is a great compilation of all the items that were edited out of Book 9. I'm sure glad he addressed all those burning questions I had in the back of my mind after finishing Winter's Heart such as, "God, I can't believe Rand cleansed the source, that is so unbelievable; but you know, I would have REALLY liked to known what the rest of the world was doing while Rand was busy doing this. I mean, that is way more interesting then how the men and the world would be now that the source is cleansed" and BLAMO, out comes Crossroads of Twilight. Full of all those interesting plots and stories I was really concerned about such as how Elayne chooses her dresses for every occasion, and how yet more "I give a crap about them" characters are introduced and are deftly playing the mind boggling Game of Houses. I think Robert Jordan has written so many different characters and plots, that I honestly believe he can't really remember the direction he was heading. This book should be titled, "The Big Book of Nothing." At no point during my reading did I ever feel engaged to read on, ever. I only kept reading because he has never written a bad book before and I just couldn't accept the fact that the book could be so bad. Not only does this book not move the plot forward at all, it actually moves backward. It's like watching a Discovery special on Raising the Titanic, except it concentrates on the fast pace action of Cook's preparing meals, while the real action takes place somewhere else out of the viewers sight. I would HIGHLY suggest skipping this book, and pray for Robert Jordan to return to his good health, because something was obviously wrong.
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Summary: Standstill - no progress
Review: I am amazed that Robert Jordan (RJ) and his publishers are unable or unwilling to smell the coffee. Witness the near unanimity among Amazon reviewers that the recent Wheel of Time books have deteriorated badly. Books 1-5, maybe even 6 were top drawer. RJ painted his world in bold strokes, we got detailed descriptions, the main characters were developed, the story clearly progressed. Most important of all, these books gripped the reader; it was a real struggle to lay them aside for food or rest! After that, some taint (!) seems to have struck down the writer. The pace of events has become glacially slow, the plot line seems to meander in a sluggish maze, the very quality of the writing seems to have become sloppy. The characters do not grow and develop further; instead they seem almost to regress. What happened to the RJ who wrote that fascinating time slice view of Aiel history, who expounded the meaning of ji'-e-toh, who described for us the testing of the Accepted? Don't get me wrong. I love doorstopper sized books and revel in sub-plots. But sub-plots are called so for a reason; they are incidental to the main storyline and get resolved soon. Yet RJ now dwells obsessively on the sub-plots leaving messy loose ends and as a result, the main plot line suffers in the sea of sub-plots and cannot progress. Book 8 ended with Egwene's Aes Sedai and Gareth Bryne's army poised to attack Tar Valon. Now at the close of Book 10, Egwene was just about ready to get the attack moving! Perrin appears for a few brief pages in the beginning of Book 9 searching for Faile, and disappears; now back in Book 10 he is still at best slightly closer to finding and rescuing her. Book 8 ended with Mat trapped in Ebou Dar, by the end of Book 9 he had barely started his escape and by the close of Book 10, he is still to cross the border! Huge discontinuities tear the fabric. Rand is now mysteriously in Tear and still playing silly games with Cadsuane, all while the Stone is somehow besieged. Mesaana is in trouble for ignoring the Dark Lord's summons; when was this summons anyway? And the rest of the Forsaken are mysteriously absent. I could go on. Apart from the story elements, again Book 10 sticks with the same pathetic scrap of a map which is so lacking in detail that it is useless (just try figuring where exactly Perrin or Mat are located and where they are heading with any degree of precision). How can you have a fantasy novel without a decent map of the fantasy world? And the wretched excuse for a glossary is so paltry and incomplete that I wonder why RJ bothered with it at all. I still think it would be instructive for Tor / RJ to run an analysis of sales of each book in the series. I will stick my neck out and predict that the Books-1-6 sold more in hardcover as well as paperback to individuals, the last four will have been bought by proportionally less individuals and more by libraries. Many of RJ's readers, who earlier would have given his WOT books pride of place on their bookshelf are getting disillusioned and falling back on the public library. I for one still want to read how the series ends, but not another cent of my money will RJ get unless he works for it. Contempt for his readers is coming back to bite RJ.
Rating:
Summary: One star is too much
Review: One star is too high a rating for this book. It is one of the
worst books I've ever read. I used to be a big fan of this
series and I think its sad that it has come to this. All the reviews that talk about how bad this book is bring up
valid points so if you are thinking about buying this book read
them. I thought the bad reviews were more entertaining than
the book anyway. If you want to read something good check out
George R. R. Martin instead.
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Summary: Last gasp of the X-Files of Fantasy Series? What do I mean?
Review: Well, I'll tell you. Just like the X-Files, this series started out great, had good characterizations, good story thread, but the creator eventually lost his way. Just like by the 5th season of the X-Files, I am totally confused and bored. I have to spend extra-time looking up WOT FAQs on the internet to try and remember who the hell this woman or that man was or is. There are too many characters with similar names, all of whom remind me of one of my great aunts (even if they are "ageless" looking Aes Sedai). I really am not interested in the details, moralizations and political views of one of my great aunts. Dreadful stuff. Cut the ..., already, R.J.
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