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Summary: Don't bother
Review: I used to love the WOT series and recommended it to all my friends, but I can't recommend this book at all.Basically, nothing happens, the plot isn't advanced at all. You can basically skip this book and read the next one and not miss a beat, so why pay the money and suffer the tedium.
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Summary: Long, Boring, It might be another Age before he finishes it.
Review: I am a fan of this series. I have bought and read book 1-10.
The first four books I give a 5 on the Amazon[.com] rating scale.
Books five & six I give a 4.5. It all goes downhill from there.
Books seven-ten are all mediocre (for Jordan standards) and I give them all a 3. Jordan's series started out with fascinating characters and ideas and fairly fast paced plot-filled writing. The Latest books (including crossroads of twilight) are long, boring, and filled with so many characters I can barely keep track of them anymore. I won't buy any more WOT books. I'll wait for the free library version instead of wasting my money.
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Summary: Nothing Happens
Review: I was very disappointed with this book of WoT. I can't even think of a single battle in the entire book. Almost next to nothing of any large importance happens. Its basically a boring setup book. I can't imagine too many people liking it. You are probably better off just reading a small summary of the entire book and going on to book 11 when it comes out.
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Summary: Don't buy it, this is definite library book material
Review: Overall, I was quite disappointed with the content. I had a hard time getting into the book, and it wasn't till the last quarter that it really got rolling for me. I need to think on this for a week or so, but I think that CoT is right up there as RJs weakest performance in the series. To me there just isn't that much to discuss in the rest of the book. After I read Glimmers, there was dozens of points that I wanted to go over. But the rest of the book just doens't have them. I was bummed about this. There just aren't many revlations-- just alot of filler. RJ really startled me with this book. I thought he was a much better writer than this. This book was like the middle of a chess game. A lot of pieces were moved around, but absolutely no pieces were captured. Apparently, the captures will all take place in the take book. I will still bear with RJ, as I have been reading the series for 7 years. However, I don't think I will recommend this series to my friends anymore, at least not until RJ picks the pace up again. I am very hopeful for the next book, however. There is no way, unless he wants to lose all his fans, that he cannot have a good book. There is just too much posed right on the edge of action right now. I really felt like RJ could have squished this whole book into a couple hundred pages. I used to be an editor at my university so I have some experience in these matters. However, I really did like the last quarter-- I loved Rand's chapters, I loved seeing Tuon's courtship with Mat, and there was some good evil Povs. I wasn't too enthralled with Perrin however. It just seemed so redundant. There wasn't really a dramatic plot. Because there were no climatic points in this book, no character resolution. Everything just kind of stayed the same. In my opinion, this is the worst book of the series. Even PoD had some big events that happened, and not necessarily all of them were battles. I liked ACoS, and even WH was good, but if you make a list of what happened in WH or PoD and compare it with CoT, you will see that CoT is sorely lacking. I was made cause there was way to much filler description, and not nearly enough plot advancement. Fantasy is supposed to have battles, and struggles between good and evil. But this had no fights, none. Evil hardly appeared. This book was more like a soap opera than fantasy. I really felt that RJ needed a good editor to trim down some parts- cause this easily good have been 300 pages. Then he could have actually made some stuff happen. I don't care if there are battles or not, but this book just is not a good stand-alone. Finally, one crucial element missing was info to theorize on. This had almost no good info. I felt like the prologue had more material revealed then the whole rest of the book. That is very, very bad.
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Review: Years ago this was said to be a 10 book series. I entered the picture when book five was just written. I found the books to be of the highest quality, but I found that waiting a year and a half for each book difficult. I couldn't remember all of the details. So after reading book seven I decided to wait and purchase all of the ten books and then reread them. Now it appears that Mr. Jordan is not limiting the series to ten books. I am dismayed. Am I supposed to purchase an unlimited number of books before the story is told? I think not!
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Summary: From Fantasy to Soap Opera Writer
Review: Well, quite frankly, I am at a loss for words. I can't stop wondering what happened to the writer of the first four books. Generally I am not pessimistic, but I think this series is done. RJ had his chance to redeem himself after the book eight disappointment but really blew it on this one. Would be readers who are looking for a good story should look elsewhere; this is no fantasy story, it is pure soap opera. RJ has taken "Days of Our Lives" and converted it to RandLand.
NOTHING happened in this book but conversation between unknown characters and far flung plotlines. I think the story has taken a life of its own, and RJ is not in control anymore. I am shocked that TOR let this book get out to the press. Nothing important happened in this book that could not have been written in one chapter.
I shall repeat, 680 pages of diologue... if I wanted 680 pages of worthless dialogue I could have turned on CSPAN.
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Summary: good read for fans but fails to satisfy
Review: Those who borrow or purchase this book in hopes of finding some sort of resolution are going to be sorely disappointed. The mass is devoted to twists upon twists, and while some minor points of contention are resolved here, the lack of any sort of major resolution is something of a disappointment. Now please do not mistake me for the one of the reviewers clamoring for Jordan to finish with the Last Battle and be done with this series. I am still astounded by the sheer scope of the world he has painstakingly created for us. Characters are wonderfully dynamic and marvelously complex. Within the framework he has created Robert Jordan has allowed for a myriad of possible resolutions, and in doing so has far exceeded any contemporary scope or vision. Jordan's latest book takes another huge step in that direction. More time is spent getting inside the heads of characters that were little more then side notes in earlier books. We finally begin to witness some tiny side dramas that Jordan has hinted at over several books being played out. That said, I have three major points of frustration regarding this book. 1. You almost need to make your own plot diagram to keep it all straight. Especially if the last time you touched this series was 2 years ago when Winter's Heart came out, you will find yourself paging back through old books trying to recall the significance of these seemingly minor events that are ceaselessly mentioned throughout this book. 2. There is no uniting factor among the story lines. At this point, each is seemingly distinct and only barely related. I have long maintained this to be the frustrating factor behind all those who insist that this series became trash after the first three books. At that point, it was no longer an adventure of a ragged crew from the Two Rivers, but now a full blown epic tale of the fate of an entire world. While I personally am fascinated by the whole set of possibilities that opened up with this world after book 4, I must agree that the sense of intimacy the reader had with those in the book is slipping away, even among the main set of characters with which we started this series. 3. The great events that have always marked the ends of each book in this series are woefully absent here, leaving the reader with the sense that he/she is being manipulated. I remember being satisfied by the battle at the Eye of the World in book 1, and later by the events at Dumai's Well in 6. I was even vaguely pleased with the Asha'man attack ending in book 8. This book had no such defining feature, just a whole new set of maybes for the next installment. In my opinion however, all this does is raise the stakes for Jordan to pull up a whopper of an ending when he is through with all of this. I for one, intend to read on, if only to see if he can manage to do it justice.
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Summary: Good, but not very advancing.
Review: Just about everyone else has had it correct so far, the books good, but it dosent get the story moving more then a bit. I just finished it, and i must say it was very well written, like all of them, and entertaining....but VERY little happened! It just set the story up some more, but if the story gets set up much more, its going to fall down. The next book in the series has the possibility to be one of the best hes ever written, but after waiting two years for the tenth book, and having it advance the story less then a week or two past the 9th book, i dont know if i can wait that long again.
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Summary: Return Your Copy
Review: My title essentially sums up my feeling about this book...I read the book on the 7th of Jan. and returned it to the store on the 8th! What was the point of filling up 700 pages with a bare extension of the already lethargic plot from the previous two books? I've been reading this series since I was fourteen, lo these many years, and this book is OBVIOUSLY sub-par even compared to the other big stinkers, e.g. 8 & 9. Go to the bookstore and read it but don't waste any money on it. My only hope is that George R.R. Martin will somehow hear my keening wail and finish his book soon!
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Summary: nothing happened!
Review: Just read the last chapter and you'll be ready for the next book. Definately don't get this as a hardcover. It was VERY boring.
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