Rating: Summary: The woman wear colorful dresses though Review: I hate to say it but, if you have any reason to like this book, you need to read the others first. The women wear colorful dresses though. Having said that, I feel the necessity to warn you, this is just another in Jordan's long-winded typewriter finger poundings, and "The Crossroads of Twilight" is just that. The decisions are made for future books, and yes your future money, are just a little too lackluster for your average reader. Yes, the decisions made are important, but not 600 plus pages important. Dragging it out the way Jordan has, left me with nice material to go to sleep by, but little else. The women wear colorful dresses though. As complicated as the series is, you could just skip this book and move to the next one to catch up, and save about 25 bucks. Rand the main character is only available for about 20 pages and then he's gone with movement in the shadows and out side of the main story. The women wear colorful dresses though. The bottom line is any book I can put down with only a page and a half left wasn't worth all the poor trees it took to get it published. The women wear colorful dresses though. Jordan needs to stay true to his series and listen to less of what his publisher and bank account say.
Rating: Summary: Who's Kidding Who? Review: I don't care if this ever ends. Everyone's got their favorite characters, we get the postcard size updates on what's happening with them. Some we don't care if they live or die, boring drugery is their fate, and in this series, living to the next installment is a good thing. I've given up on Jordan ever actually wrapping things up, but it'll happen eventually. When it does, I have my bookshelf of the series waiting and I'll re-read it in sequence without having to wait years between the books, probably several times, and I'll get more pleasure each time I re-read it. How many series can you say that about?
Rating: Summary: A painful experience really, with few bright points Review: I wish Mr. Jordan never wrote this book really. The first 6 books were great, the 7th book was fine but it had to grow on me. The 8th book did not have a great ending at all, but it grew on me too. The 9th book was not that great, but it still had a dynamite conclusion which gave us hope the story would start going at a reasonable pace again. This did not happen. I understand that Mr. Jordan wants to get the little plots a lot of time, but this book was not well written at all. A book should hold your attention from page one and give you a conclusion that is satisfying and wanting more. If this wasn't the WoT series, I would feel I had nothing to look forward to in the future. If he keeps writing books like this, I surely don't. My major complaints are: 1. Time slowing to a crawl since Dumai wells. 2. Way too many subplots. Some are fine, I was interested in Ideralde in this book, but he gave it almost no face time. Some just touch on characters that deserve no face time like the Grey woman (cant remember her name). 3. Some of the main story plots are running in place, especially since book 8. Perrin's story and Egwene's stories are really in the trenches. The sad thing is, they were both very promising and may end well, but for now they are driving me nuts. 3 books+ to tell them. They were interesting last in book 8. 4. Rand's story just went NOWHERE in this book. After the end of book 9, it was cruel of the author to not do more with Rand. 5. Elayne needs killing :) Ok I am not being fair, but her storyline is weak, and I never liked her anyway, hehe. 6. Worst of all, the pacing and selection of stories just stunk in this book. With different mixing and slightly more movement on at least one story, this might have been a different book. Ok, I liked Mat's story somewhat, but it was still weak. Mat's a fun character and I like Tuon, so hopefully that story will move a bit more in the books ahead. In conclusion, I will continue to read his books. Why? I am too invested in them to give up now, but unless things change, I will start going paperback, then library for my next fix. My advice to Mr. Jordan is get a objective author who isn't afraid to say no. You need it, badly.
Rating: Summary: Sad ... just sad Review: I must agree with all of these reviews (95% of them are negative). In fact I was thinking that ever since book 6 Robert Jordan should have started on page 500, then we would have had a really good book or two since then. I used to think this author was the next epic, the next tolkein, but now I see him as just another shepherd, shearing us like the sheep we are. BBAAAAHHHHHH...
Rating: Summary: Wonderfully Written, Jordan Does not Disappoint Review: By this time, Jordan expects his audience to know the story of the archetypal battle of the light and dark. True to his previous novels, Jordan has once again out done himself. He has used all ten of these novels to create much aprehension for when the climax of the series comes. Rand, Mat, and Perrin are three characters that all mature throughout the series and grow attached to the heart. Where the story will go from here, only Jordan knows. The one negative comment about this book is that it doesn't advance much in time. Like book 6, this was a book that does a great job of preparing you for the future, and helps create a complex and intriguing plot, but can seem to take a bit of time to get to the exciting parts of the story. All-in-all though, this was a great book to help set the stage for Tarmon Gai'don, bring it on. Thank you Mr. Jordan
Rating: Summary: Robert Jordan's Book 10 Review: Slooooooow is the best description I can give this book. Too many characters are added unto each succeeding books that it becomes difficult to keep up with who is doing what, especially since the time lapse between books is much too long. I don't believe Mr. Jordan knows how to end this story. I no longer enjoy reading it and wish he would "nail shut this coffin" while he still has readers who are intrested in finding out how this lengthy saga ends.
Rating: Summary: The Wheel Turns...Much Too Slow! Review: What a colossal waste of time and money. I should have waited until the book was on the bargain table. By now, Jordan should be aware of the fact that he is losing readers in droves. I kept reading and reading and reading and nothing much happened that couldn't have been covered in two chapters in the FINAL installment. Mr. Jordan? Are you there? Finish, already!
Rating: Summary: another lost reader Review: This is really too bad. The first six or seven in this series were phenominal. The eighth & ninth were getting dull but I assumed Jordan was ready to start bringing together the hundreds of characters and subplots together. Instead he releases this book full of nearly 700 pages of nothing happening. What happened to all the great battles that the earlier books used so well? I am so dissappointed with this book. After reading book nine, I was disappointed, but hopeful. Now I am dissappointed and have no desire to finish this series. It had so much potential, and Jordan has let a potential masterpiece turn into a boring, dry and uneventful story.
Rating: Summary: Winter's Heart Version 1.5 Review: While this book has a great deal of information in it, it does not really tell a story of any kind. It fills in details from Winter's Heart (hence the title of the review) but moves the overall story not at all. At the end of COT, Jordan's characters are a little older, in a little more danger, and have done little else. Please Mr. Jordan, wrap this up now!
Rating: Summary: You bought the book and i know you will finish it Review: The book was good so just shut-up and wait for the next one. You bought it and read it so I know you like Mr. Jordan's books
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