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Summary: Disappointing
Review: After 2+ years since the last, I was practically salivating for this book to come out. Like many fans of W.O.T., I reread the whole series to prep for the release of "C.o.T." And what we've ended up with is a book, the contents of which could have been summarized in a forward. There is virtually no movement in any of the storylines. There are far too many pages describing the outfits that everyone is wearing. The first 2/3 of the book takes place at the same time as the last 1/3 of the last book. Mr. Jordan, some resolution please.
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Summary: One of the worst books I've ever read
Review: I've been a fan of Robert Jordan for over 10 years. I started reading his books as a junior in High School. Now over 10 years later I find myself barely able to finish his latest work "Crossroads of Twilight". The book has several problems which range from; focus on minor characters, not hearing from Rand until 500+pages into a 600+page book, and no forward movement in the storyline to speak of.By book 10 you would think that Perrin could have gotten Faile back, Some of the events from book 10 (the cleasing of Saidin)
would be talked about more, Matt and the circus he's with could have moved further than 30 miles away from the Seachen especially when he holds the daughter of the 9 moons, The white tower could become whole rather than camped outside the white tower for the entire book, and Hamila could have been caught as an agent for the dark lord. All in all I hope, I pray, that something happens in the next book to get the series going again. The first two books in the series kept things moving, but now we're lucky if 20 days pass in one book. Maybe Jordan should give up now and save all of us a lot of time!
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Summary: A Book About Nothing
Review: This books was indeed the worst of the series. Absolutely nothing was brought to a close. If you are a fan, then I would suggest getting a copy off of IRC (#books) and wait for the remainder sales. There is no reason to support this ...!
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Summary: Lost his touch!
Review: Robert Jordan has lost his way, he's lost a commitment to the story, and he's lost a commitment to his fans. How long is this tired story going to continue. Where is he going? It's a really shame, because I've come to love most of the characters. This may be the last book of his I ever buy. Which is really very very sad since I fell in love with the story with the first book. Those of us who have followed you and this story from the very beginning deserve better from you Robert Jordan. We really do!
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Summary: Crossroads of Twilight? More like Winter's Heart Part 2
Review: I love the Wheel of Time series... or at least the first six books. The first six are wonders of plot advancement, detail and excitement.... Crossroads of Twilight goes nowhere. It is, literally, two weeks, book time. The characters continue what they had been doing without any real conclusion, just working on their plans with nothing more than filler. In fact, the majority of the book is based on reactions of the Aes Sedai to what Rand and Nynaeve unleashed to cleanse the taint at the end of Winter's Heart. It would have made far more sense, and made far fewer people upset, to combine the two books. As it is, this book is fluff and filler, and I closed the book feeling like I wasted [money]. The only action occurs at the very end, and encompasses maybe 20 pages. The rest is generally talk, and a very few (small) accomplishments. Robert Jordan needs to go back to the first six books and remember the beautiful writing style that hooked so many people in the first place. ... Or if it actually advances the plot, MAYBE I'll buy it. If it wasn't for the fact that I love this series, I wouldn't have bought it at all.
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Summary: Wait for Book 11.
Review: Big Battles, Conquests, Action & Intrigue are not to be found here. The book catches up our favorite Aes Sedai, Elayne, Egwene, Perrin & Mat from where we left off on book 9. VERY SLOWLY!!! Over half the book is dedicated to this goal. This was an awful slow read, no action, much plotting and finger pointing. The plot moves forward about a week, with little activity, with only one stupid ill-conceived action by one of our favorites for a new cliffhanger. I'm sure Robert Jordan put some foretelling in this book, and some plotting has taken place, but from my view, you probably can skip it and wait for book 11. The time taken to read this book was a complete waste.
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Summary: 600+ of No Action-Very Disappointing.
Review: What a disappointment. After such a long wait for Book 10 of the Wheel of Time series, readers are stuck with nothing moving the story forward. If Robert Jordan has forgotten who his characters are, his readers have not. Spending over 600 pages to endlessly review the characters clothing and the societies details is tedious at best. The book places the characters laying siege or under siege without any resolution. Two sentences stating who was camped outside Tar Valon and for how long would have been enough. Lets move along!
Where was Rand for 600 plus pages?
Perhaps Jordon doesn't know where he wants the story to go and he needed Crossroads of Twilight to get his bearings. The next time he needs to spend numerous pages explaining in tedious detail how the Aes Sedai Hall comes to order, he should keep it in his working outline and spare his readers.
I would recommend reading the book just to get a taste of the wonderful world that has been created in this series but save your money because it isn't worth buying.
Perhaps Jordan will eventually remember who his main characters are and get them put in motion once again.
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Summary: Jordan finally lost me...
Review: Let me start off by saying that I have thoroughly enjoyed every book in this series up until now. I am not one of the band wagon Jordan haters and people who have been bitter for over half a decade now regarding this series... But, having said that, you can see where I'm going obviously. This book was simply terrible... Oh, don't get me wrong, it was well written, had the usual attention to detail and amazing character depth we all are familiar with. The problem was simply... nothing happened. Nothing at all. Despite wide criticism, the previous books in the series all had at least one major event, a notable climax even if not much else. Crossroads of Twilight consists of these(and don't worry aobut spoilers, nothing to spoil)... Mat kills one sul'dam and goes slightly(a few days!) further away from Ebou Dar. Perrin goes a few days closer to the Shaido. Rand... sits there. Cadsuane... sits there. Faile... sits there. Egwene... whines a bit and sits there. I can't even remember if Elayne and Aviendha are even in the book or not and I just finished it about 10 minutes ago if that tells you anything about them. The only decent chapter in the whole book that even takes a single step forward(not including the half assed ending which I'll cover in a second) is the short section on events covering Elaida and the White Tower. Now... As for the ending... Well, near the end of the book I started counting pages left. I kept telling myself, something will happen. Something has to happen. ... It didn't. What was presnted instead was trash. Utter trash. It would have been decent at the beginning of the book and presented as the main storyline perhaps, but as it was... ugh. The book amounts to what should have been quite literally a few paragraphs of recaps for each character if that, with the one White Tower chapter worthy of actually being called a chapter. It is one step of short of being "*insert character name here* walks here. Then they walk over there. Then they walk back. They walk around again. Walking, walking. Stop to say something about foods they like! (Seriously, there is more ranting about various foods than anything else.) Walk around a bit more. Sleep. Oh look theyre snoring. Snoring... still snoring! The End." On top of everything else, Jordan basically ignored the events of the last book. In book nine, the male half of the source was finally cleansed... The inner flap of the jacket has more about the aftermath of that than the book itself does! And I am being 100% literal in that statement, it is just flat out disgusting that it is not brought up except for one or two lines over the course of the near 700 pages! And minute references to a single Asha'man smiling(in one of the Perrin chapters) doesn't count in the least as suitable acknowledgement. So basically, Jordan not only offers nothing in this book at all, he actually takes away from what happened in the previous installment!
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Summary: Yawn
Review: Prepare yourself to become utterly mired in minutia. As always, RJ does a fantastic job of making his world seem real. However, as has been suggested here and other places, most of this book could have been edited out without any loss to the series as a whole.
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Summary: Somebody Save ME!
Review: i must be brainwashed or something. i keep telling myself that i wont pay for another one of these books, but.....WHY CANT I STOP? its called curiosity. when you start reading TWOT series you kinda get into it and you really wanna know what happens to the characters of the story. But it never is enough and then you have to wait years for the next one to come out....it really is rather painful. These books suck you in like some kind of bizarre soap opera and here in hawaii, things usually come later then in any other place in the US. i HATE IT. bUT OF COURSE I'll probably buy the next one...Unless i die, or Robert Jordan dies...hey thats a thought, i wonder how old he is. WILL IT EVER END? anyway, if you really want to, read it.If you have all the books with you when you start, they really are rather interesting...but oh so painful when the story is cut off.
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