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Summary: Great character development but slow action
Review: For fans who felt left hanging after reading Winter's Heart in all the the major plots, be prepared to feel as if you had only inched forward in their progress.The book actually backtracks telling readers what all of the major characters were doing while Rand and Nynaeve were cleansing Saidin. All of the major plots are left practically where they were to begin with with few exceptions. Elayne is still struggling for the thrown; Egwene has yet to lay seige to the White Tower, Perrin has not yet set his band against the Aiel who kidnapped Faile - so no rescue; Mat on still only a few leagues out of Ebou Dar; there is no progression or regression as far as the Forsaken are concerned -they're given around 10 sentences in 2 chapters. Character development has been the best in this book. With the exception of Rand and Nynaeve who get only a chapter or two at best in this book, most of the other major plot protaganist characters get some serious time. It's a nice change of pace in that sometimes Jordan appears to skim over characters in building them up. That's perhaps the best thing about this book. For those looking for a lot of action and resolution to conflict in the addition to several new subplots added in this book, I can only assume and hope that it will occur in the next book. Overall I would have to say I loved this book and am already counting down the days untill the next one is released and would recommend it to everyone who has worked their way through the Wheel of Time series.
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Summary: No good
Review: WHAT WAS ROBERT JORDAN THINKING? Thanks for wasting my time, Mr. Jordan. For all the pages you could have at least advanced the plot.
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Summary: Wheel of Infinite Time
Review: For those frustrated with this series, I offer the following advice:
Quit reading them until the series is done and all in paperback. The series is very complex with lots of characters and details and reading the next book as soon as it comes every 2 years is a waste of your time. After reading Path of Daggers and realizing I had forgotten a lot of the details of the previous books brought me to this realization. I like the series and want to read it, but I refuse to subject myself to agonizing game of creeping along a little bit every couple years. I'll be back when he is done.
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Summary: Crossroads to Nowhere
Review: Jordan has really dropped the ball on this series. What started out as an excellent story line. Has deteriorated into just a big waste of paper and time. This wheel of time seems to have gotten a flat somewhere between book 6 and 7, and even the motor club can't fix it.
Jordan stated that there were going to be "13" books in this series? Well the last three had better be 10,000 pages each, if he's going to drag it out this much.
It's really bad when the actual center of the story(Rand) only gets an honorable (1 1/4 pages) mention at the very end of the book.
Basically this entire book only covers 2-3 days, the same days covered in the last book.
I think Jordan has too many charactors doing too many different things to keep this series rolling along.
If your new to this series, it might be best to wait 10 or more years for Jordan to finally finish it, before you start reading it. Or you'll end up like the rest of us very dissapointed fans and start to look elsewhere for entertainment.
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Summary: Like a thin wire...
Review: First of all, I want to state that I LOVE this series. The story, the characters, everything seems to breathe with a life of its own... the characters LIVE for me. That having been said, I have to ask one thing: Why is RJ drawing this series out like a thin wire? It'll snap if he keeps this up... Not that I don't want to learn more about what's going to happen, but this whole book was a waiting process. It was "We found what we're looking for. We're right outside the town/camp/etc., we can see what we're after... but we'll wait a while and let politics/numbers/honor/etc. distract us for a few weeks."
I'm glad to find out I wasn't the only one 'skimming' the pages looking for quotations. The entire first 2/3 of the book, there were precious few to read. Pages and pages of description... ugh. "Winter's Heart" was much the same way, with the main excitement in the story coming at the very end... unfortunately, it was diluted with a few gallons of "Let's go find Faile." I liked her at first, don't get me wrong... but you get to hate her with that same irritated disgust that you felt for the Princess in all those wretched video games of childhood. Remind me again why I CARE that she's gone, please? Anyway, if anyone who has any influence over the editing process for the next book reads this: Remind Mr. Jordan, please, that we WoT fans are still waiting to find out what *really* happened to the removed taint on saidin - when Moiraine is coming back (I know she will) - when we're going to find out Elayne is really Ilyena reborn (who else saw this coming?) and more realistically - when Mat is going to slaughter the Shaidos and get Faile back (about time that happened anyway) once he finds out he, like his sister, can channel. :) I don't suppose I mind waiting another 2 years for the next book... but I hope Tarmon Gai'don comes before my not-yet-conceived firstborn gets sent to the bookstore in her new car to pick up the last book.
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Summary: Need some sleep?
Review: This has to be the worst book in the series hands down. Only reason to read this book is to put yourself to sleep. If you have read this series up to this book. I'm guessing you will get it. But please borrow it from a friend or find it on sale. and when you do read it. SKIP everything thing but the stuff on Mat, and maybe read the few pages on Rand. This was more of a chore reading then enjoyment.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: With the Wheel of Time series Robert Jordan created and introduced interesting characters involved in the familiar (but with a unique flare) theme of good versus evil. Crossroads of Twilight, however, is not worthy of Robert Jordan or the Wheel of Time. Robert Jordan needs to reread the first 3-4 books in the Wheel of Time series, revive his writing style and retake control of the story. He also needs an editor who will cull out unnecessary details. (Compare the first book in the series (The Eye of the World) to this latest effort -- you will be astonished at the change in style, content, and pacing.) I hope that the remaining Wheel of Time books will reflect Mr. Jordan's work earlier in the series.
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Summary: Maybe in the next one something will actually happen...
Review: I should have known better than to get my hopes up after book 9. This book is 680 pages of nothing. Nothing is resolved at all and you can pretty much skip the first 600 pages of book 10 and be ready for book 11 without much trouble. So do yourself a favor, and wait until your local library gets this in and save yourself the trouble of buying this.
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Summary: Save your money.
Review: I used to be a die hard Robert Jordan Fan and have enjoyed reading the Wot series for almost what seems half my life. Up to and including book 6 things moved forward and you could find action and excitement in almost every chapter. Most times you could read about subtle things that the Characters missed and get a laugh or say "WoW" what is going on. There is little of that in this installment. When I finished Winters Heart I said well I think he could have combined book 8 & 9 together and made one book that was at least close to his best work. I was wrong He could have combined book 8,9, & 10 and maybe come close to how he wrote back when he published The great hunt and The Eye of the world. New characters are great and all it is nice that we have so much detail to immerse our selves into story line. But come on this book does nothing to progress the story more than a few days past Winters Heart. And WH only had 2 chapters that were not more of the same Fluff that we see read in CoT....
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Summary: Far less than it could be...
Review: After reading approx. half the book so far, I'm asking myself if this series will ever find an ending. I've enjoyed Robert Jordan's writing for years(and still believe he is the best writer of Conan stories), but I also find myself skipping paragraphs of material that goes into overdetailed discriptions of what an Aes Sedai looks like, is wearing, or the millions of other little details he spends half a page each on in this book. It seems that at about book 8 or 9 the series started slowing down, dragging out the story and only giving the reader some excitement in the end. Is Mr. Jordan mad at his readers or just coin operated(hoping to continue selling books simply because the material of the story, if not the writing style, is fascinating). I'm still going to finish the book. But so far, after 300+ pages, I honestly believe I could have skipped those pages and still know whats going on with the story...I keep waiting for something to happen, but it doesn't. It's similar to the feeling you get from going to see one of the new Star Wars movies. You have great expectations, but after watching it, you want someone to take the rights to Star Wars away from George Lucas and give them to someone else that won't ruin what was basically a good story.
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