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Summary: I wasted my money again!
Review: I finally believe that Robert Jordan is lost to the commercial word and is selling his novels by the word. He needs to get back to the story that has intriged millions for the first 8 novels. His lack of focus and story line in this novel is boring. I could not finish the book. I am absolutely sick of the endless facial and positional posturing of every single encounter and conversation in the book. Four and a half pages to describe climbing a hill... and then did nothing once they got there!
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Summary: A great night-time sleep aid!
Review: My feeling is exactly as I read read in other reviews... NOTHING happens, Rand makes an appearance for about twenty pages, and oh yeah, just how much embroidered silk do we need to hear about?? I think his overly detailed descriptions of what people were wearing took up a combined total of 450 pages! All the pertinent happenings could have been told in 100 pages. The first few books of the series kept me up to all hours of the night... this one put me sleep before night even came.
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Summary: Where is the editor?
Review: I'm also one of his bigger fans, even going to his book signing on 1/7 in NYC, and have NO problem with a book filled with follow up and set up to what came before and what's to come. And I actually even appreciated the relatively constant point of view. In the past RJ jumped from character to character nearly every chapter. Here is stays with the character for 3, 5, or more chapters in a row.Problem is, the writing is really sloppy here. In the tenth installment and with the 100's of characters running around, his descriptions no longer stand out. Who can remember if someone's dress was crimson or blue? Which of the 100 Aes Sedai who seem to "smooth their skirts" is doing so this time? The writing isn't strong enough in this book to differentiate all these actions, characters and descritpions in a meaningful way. Its also hard to imagine that every character in the book is passive agressive...what happened to "show don't tell"? Can't RJ give us some credit by letting us figure out what the characters are thinking just from their words and actions every once in a while? He did this a little bit with Mat and Tuon, but not nearly enough. Sometimes its nice to be able to come up with yoyr own possibilities instead of having the character run through all 10 conceivable explanations for why someone was looking shifty for you.... And it would have been nice to have at least SOME reaction from one of the characters that could tell what Rand accomplished in Winter's Heart. Maybe even Rand himself? Or Logain, Taim, one of the Foresaken, our tall friend Hand of the Shadow, anyone, someone, please! Its hard to imagine that Logain wouldn't have at least THOUGHT about it when the writing was from his perspective.... Twice as much could easily have been put in here, still with plenty of rich detail. For the first time this book made me feel that RJ was just trying to get my dollar - that he isn't respecting his readers at all. If the first book had been this sloppy and slow he'd still be only in paperback.
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Summary: ugh
Review: Wait till this book comes out in paperback -- and then buy a used copy. Alternatively don't buy it at all and borrow it from some poor sap who paid good money for it. This book is more of the same as the last two -- with none of the major plot adavancement (good vs. evil, Rand and his followers vs the Dark One and his)that made the first books so good. You could take the last three books (including this one), get rid of a 1000+ pages of fluff (Crossroads is 90% fluff and 10% content in my opinon) and have a book at the caliber of the originals. This series has really gone downhill.
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Summary: Disappointed Customer
Review: I'm a ling time fan of the Wheel of Time series, but this book has to be the worst. This book has little story of its own, mostly borrowing from the previous book, Winter's Heart..
I will probably buy the next book when it comes out, but another book this poor will lose me as a fan of this series.
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Summary: Great Prologue - Horrible Book
Review: I started reading "Crossroads of Twilight" hoping that the publisher or editor or somebody at TOR got the message from previous reviews that "Winter's Heart" was not what we Jordan fans expected. Alas, no such luck! Mat's dice in his head would fall out for lack of action. Let me start with the good point - it is a wonderful (wonderfully long) prologue to the next book. Lots of descriptions and insight. Having said that, the reader will still find the innumerable subplots, the unnecessarily similar names, and little or no action. There were steps taken but nothing towards any kind of sub-conclusion as in previous books. The cliff hanger ending is unthinkable given the amount of detritus the reader had to wade through to get to it. I want my money back. Save yours and borrow this from a library just before book 11
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Summary: Stop dragging this on!
Review: It seems Mr. Jordan's main concern is money nowadays. Here is yet another book in which ABSOULTELY NOTHING HAPPENS! 600+ pages of nothing! Stop dragging this on just to collect more money!! Dont waste your money on the hardcover, please take my advice. I am considering going to the library from now on in protest of Rob Jordans selling out.
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Summary: A crossroad going nowhere
Review: 100 pages into the book, and nothing happens. 200 pages into the book, and nothing happens. 300 pages into the book, and nothing happens. 400 pages into the book, and nothing happens. 500 pages into the book, and nothing happens. 600 pages into the book, and nothing happens. 700 pages into the book, and nothing happens. End of book. Any questions?
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Summary: Like WH without the ending
Review: Well, I'll try this again since it looks like my first review didn't make it past the thought police. This book is bad, just plain bad. This book is like WH without the wam-bam ending. Nothing happens worth reading ..... You've heard this in many other reviews with the usual motive of milking the cash cow. Well, I don't buy the cash cow motive. I'll try and define his motive leaving out some of the terms that I think got my previous review rejected. I think Mr. Jordan likes to watch his readers struggle with many of the clues hidden in his books (half the light of the world, give up the ax or the hammer, will the song be found , who killed ....). You get the idea. Many of these issues were introduced in the first book 10 years ago !!!! Why bother with this foreshadowing unless it has some relevance later. At first, I think it did. I think Jordan had a plan for where he wanted to go. Then came the book signings, web sites, fan adulation ....... . Jordan has been asked 'Who killed ...' hundreds of times. Why not answer this question unless Jordan enjoys watching his readers squirm. I think he has even admitted this in some of his interviews. I can't and don't respect this. COT is the end for this reader.
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Summary: Save your time and money!!
Review: This book could have been knocked down to a forty pages and not lost a thing. The writing is slow and boring, the action non-existent, and the main character (the one who this WHOLE story is about) is in all of about 10 pages.
Disappointed does not begin to describe my feelings. The only reason I finished this drivel was on the off chance something interesting would happen at the end. (It doesn't).
Mr. Jordan & TOR books owe a big apology to all their fans.
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