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Summary: Sloooow
Review: I've been a Jordan fan for years, the first five books hooked me. This book, however, is incredibly slow moving. Get ready for minute details: the color of a random Aes Sedai's dress, the trim of her shawl, the hair color of an unknown Aiel... the list goes on. Plot advancement in almost nil, new characters come and go, never to be heard from again. What's the point? I hope Jordan gets things moving once more; it will probably take him two years to write the next book and my patience is wearing thin.
Rating: 
Summary: Good, but not up to expectations
Review: Being the hardcore Wheel of Time fan that I am, I bought the Prologue "Glimmers" when it came out in September. I was thrilled upon reading the author interview: only a few more books! Surely Jordan will HAVE to pack a lot more action and plot conclusion into one installment than he has been doing. With a big silly grin on my face I wrote down a list of predictions of what might just end up happening in Crossroads.The shattering of illusions really hurts. The 680-page tome that is Crossroads crashed with the weight of a wrecking ball into any hopes I had of a repeat of the killer action scene found at the end of Winter's Heart. In retrospect, I must be more naive than I thought to actually believe that Jordan could actually wrap more than one plot up in a book. Heck, he proved in Crossroads that he can't even resolve ONE, for crying out loud. Yes, I was entertained by the political manuevering and the important decisions made, BUT...I crave some action. Now, I know some people out there will jump all over that last statement, accusing me of having a two-second attention span that can only be held by violence. That's most certainly not true, as I finished the book two days after it came out. I absorbed page after page, secretly harboring the belief that gripping, riveting narration was just around the corner. Even when it was clear I was down to the last few chapters, hope burned ever eternal in my breast. Nope. The dice stopped spinning in my head I guess, since my luck completely ran out. All this book gave me was frustration and more questions. In short, Crossroads was a half-hearted addition to the massive WoT saga. Two more years...:-(
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Summary: Wheel Has No Beginning And No End...Kind Of Like This Series
Review: Well, I won't be fooled again. I will not be reading another Robert Jordan book, ever. I'm so disappointed it has come to this, after so much time invested and such a promising beginning. When Jordan can't even get 3 stars from his most loyal fans (the only ones still reading), you know something is very wrong. The warning signs have been there for him for the last 5 books or so, and yet he can't seem to take the hint. I'll stick to George R. R. Martin from now on for my epic fantasy, a man who seems to still know how to put together a complex world AND make things happen in it that keep your interest page after page and book after book. Sorry Mr. Jordan, you blew it.
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Summary: Finish It
Review: Arrrrrrrrggggggh. For the love of the light finish this story. I was actually enjoying the soap opera until now. This book could have been written in 300 pages or less and wouldn't have compromised the beauty of the tale. This however, has gone beyond the pale. I would almost think he has writer's block. My god there isn't any resolution to anything. Egwene is a coward. Rand is stupider than dirt (be connected to your leiutenants for chrissake). And as for Elayne... to quote the Wise Ones "she will be very formidable when she realizes that she owns her pride and it does not own her." Crush your enemies. I can't believe it has taken nine books and six hundred plus pages for the Aes Sedai to realize they can't stand alone against Shai'Tan. Silly twits deserve the leash. Saddly the Asha'aman will probably spare them that fate only to be turned into little dogs. This was not the tale it was in the first six books. Fires of Heavan and Lord of Chaos were brilliant. But there is a distinct lack in the rest of the books. I'll read one more before I write my own ending to this tale and consider it done.
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Summary: Lethargic, at best
Review: This book read like the poetry my teachers made me read in high school: wonderfully written, but it never really went anywhere. It takes a good two thirds of the book to get chronologically past the end of "Winter's Heart" and even after that the plot barely moves. As another reviewer already said, you could simply read the last chapter and be up to date. There are no real shocking plot twists, and no real character development. I would reccomend checking this out from a library when they get it, or at the very least waiting until it comes out in paperback. I certainly wish I hadn't wasted my money.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY
Review: This has to be the worst book I ever read. Nothing happens! You can sum up what happens in a few paragraphs. I understand 700 pages is hard to write and Jordan does use filler material in his books, but a filler book in the series? Oh well at least there is George RR Martin a far superior writer.
Rating:
Summary: Worst of the series
Review: Well, I am finally done with Jordan...Wasted my last penny on him...quitting cold turkey, at least until the last battle...though its questionable whether jordan has any intention of ever getting there...this book fails to advance the plotline to such an extent that I would question the ethics involved in its writing/publication. It is becoming obvious that Jordan has nothing left to right about, but is trying to squeeze a couple more volumes (and a couple million dollars) before the climax. I may come back for the climax but feel no need to read anything new in the series until then... DONT BUY IT
Rating:
Summary: Dissapointing - very little plot advancement
Review: I'm a big fan of WOT, but this book is very dissapointing. At least in the last book, we had something big happen with Rand cleansing Saidin. In this book, very little happens with the plot and a lot of it is just people who can channel noticing Rand wielding a ton of the One Power and their reactions. One of the few good things in CoT is that we get to see more of Mat.
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Summary: Don't bother reading this book
Review: I thought the series would get better. I was wrong! Why doesn't Jordan just finish the series? When I was younger I used to love his books, but now they are not even worth buying.
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Summary: RJ - please start paying attention to your fans!
Review: Up until a couple of days ago, I thought I was a diehard WoT fan. Sure the last few books have been a little bit slower, but there has been something interesting or exciting happening in all of them. The last book ended with one of the most momentous developments in the entire series....but it was barely addressed in this book! Almost nothing happened in this book. No single storyline was even close to resolved. Rand had about 20-40 pages in the entire book and that didn't even come until past the five hundred page mark. I'm sure that Robert Jordan is doing exactly what he wants to with this series, and that's fine. It's HIS series. But after this book, a think that there will be a lot of fans who no longer have the patience or the desire to follow him in what has become a long-winded, irrelevant hollow shell of what could have been a great saga.
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