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Summary: filler at best
Review: I own all of the Wheel of Time books, but this one is one of the worst. Rand doesn't make an appearance until about 2/3 into the book. If you like boring details about the minutiae associated with the rebel Aes Sedai, then this book is for you. The series should've ended a couple of books ago, but he's still making gobs of money so I expect the Last Battle around 2050.
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Summary: Jordan's fans are shallow
Review: Apparently, while the admiring minority of Jordan's fans have been enjoying his rich character development, everyone else has just been waiting for him to throw some more action at them, then finish the series. These are his characters, so trust him to treat them properly! He has reached a moment of intense resolution and clarification of many subtle plot lines; in my opinion, the story needed "Crossroads of Twilight" to slow down the frantic forward pace of action, and become richer. Amazing.
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Summary: Great taste, less filling
Review: As an escapist reader, I rarely find myself frustrated with a work of fiction. I greatly enjoy reading the WoT series. This most recent book, Crossroads of Twilight managed to do so. At the end of Book 9 we are left with Rand having just finished cleansing the male half of the Source. One might think that this would mean we'd make significant chronological progress past this point, and perhaps have some meaningful or descriptive passages detailing the HUGE importance of this event. To my knowledge it is mentioned two or three times, none of which are given much import. Also, the entire book, 680 pages, in a very short amount of time. If the Last battle is a month away we still have another 3 books to look forward to at this rate. I will say that it was.. a fun read, but look only for more questions and more subplots which really don't add much and indicate that either the conclusion is FAR off, or that the conclusion is going to be fast, short and leave lots of loose ends. Unless you have already started collecting all the hardbacks, wait until this one comes out in paperback, or better yet get it from your local library.
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Summary: The Long Drawn out Process of Jordan
Review: Ok Ok Mr Jordan you have written some really good books # 1 thru 7 then you wrote 8 and blew it in my eyes. Out comes 9 after waiting FOREVER again and I can say I enjoyed it. Now here is book 10 and we spend 90% of the book in the past before the end of book 9. Hello.....I'm not a 5 year old and I didn't need half of this explained to me! Sixhundredeighty pages and we advanced what??? maybe a week from the time they clean the taint??? And it gets mentioned what twice? I think it's time to write for story and quit writing for money. I won't buy more
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Summary: God it hurts...
Review: The first 5 or 6 books of this series is great. They are fast, characters are developing and there is lots of new stuff to see and learn about.
Ever since then it has been very very very slow. The characters and people haven't changed. All I read about it is what everyone is thinking all the time, I have heard it again and again. I know how everyone thinks. All the woman are the same, all Aes Sedai are the same, everyone's thoughts are the same! Nothing changes! 10 books of this, we don't need anymore character insight, we need action. Give us some good hardcore battles, more the story along, tie up loose ends. Quit writing about stuff we already know and have heard about, after 6 books you can ease back on the same old stuff, we get it! This book is filler. It's so painfully obvious this book and the few before it were just written to extend the series and make money as it offers almost nothing new.
My new favorite author is George RR Martin. Read his stuff, it's excellent!
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Summary: Wasted potential part 4
Review: This book is now, unfortunately, cementing Robert Jordan's legacy. After 5 volumes of the most amazing fantasy ever put to page and a sixth that, at the time, seemed to be a bridge to the end. We have now read the fourth book in a row where very little to nothing happens. In fact in this book nothing happens but talking and more talking. I think I am as fond of these characters as anyone who reads these books but it is extremely frustrating to wait for two years for a new entry and then to be treated to, yet again, nothing. The book is well written but that is not enough. The characters are talking about doing interesting things but by the end they do nothing. The saddest commentary I have on this book is that I think I can tell any future reader of this series that you can just skip this book, nothing of any importance happens. The sadness comes from watching the most promising author since Tolkein fritter away the possibility to make something great due to his total inability to keep his story moving forward. As I think on the future, and I hope Mr. Jordan will eventually decide to finish things up. My greatest fear is that despite what Mr. Jordan says he doesn't know how to end this series and is now irreversibly mired in writer's block. An aside for those who might not know, Mr. Jordan has said on a number of occasions that he knew what the last scene in the series was from the moment he started to write it and the series would be as many volumes as it took for him to get to that scene. I wish I felt we were making progress towards that final scene instead of aimlessly wandering. I realize when I recommend this series there's going to have to be one huge warning to a new reader. It will go something like this; the first six books are amazing but you're going to have to slog through the next 2500 pgs. (and counting) of repetitive conversations and plot that moves at the pace of a glacier before it picks up (I hope!) in the last 2 or 3 books. I thought it inconceivable that I would ever give a book in this series one star, but that is all this deserves. The most polite term for this book is filler. The unfortunate reality is, it is an example of a writer deteriorating before our eyes. More's the pity.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: I agree with the majority of the customer reviews about this installment...a let down. I kept hoping for something to happen, even to the last page, but it was a complete disappointment. Very few, if any, significant events took place. The best that can be said about this book is that a little more light has been shed on some mysteries, and that both Mat and Perrin had some noteworthy character development. Otherwise, it seemed almost insignificant.I was looking forward to the release of this book with a great deal of anticipation...but if this is what I have to look forward to for the next book, I'll probably wait for the paperback; if that.
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Summary: I thought it was good.
Review: It is a typical robert jordan book. I have to admit that the first ones were the best but i enjoyed this one just not enough Rand. All around a robert jordan book.
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Summary: I waited a year for that??
Review: Normaly I love this series but this book was such a major disapointment. It basicly was nothing more then a very long prolouge. How the hell did Robert Jordan's editors let him pass this off as an installment to the series. Well I'll defiantly be leary before shelling out $[amount] on the next one to come out. I cannot express how disaponting this book was. 30 odd chapters of women drinking tea and having conversations. I want my money back!
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Summary: No, 1400 pages of practically nothing
Review: With the exception of Elayne getting pregnant and Rand cleansing the male part of the source, nothing happened in the LAST book either. All this book does is introduce so many meaningless characters that Mr. Jordan has run out of original names. They are all beginning to be the same, save for a letter missing or one or two letters transposed. I was SO disappointed. Trust me, you can skip this book and read the next one without missing a beat.
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