Rating: 
Summary: Kind of disappointing, but still worth reading
Review: The book is sort of a letdown after the end of Winter's Heart, which leaves you dying to read the sequel. Unfortunately, barely anything happens in CoT (about two major events that I can think of, and hundreds of pages of unnecessary dialogue).
The one problem with this series is that it takes ten books to say what could have been said in five. Waiting a year just to read this book is sort of annoying. I don't really mind the length of the series, it's just the waiting that gets on my nerves.
However, all this dialogue does give you some insights into some of the more unknown characters-like Tuon. (Also, with this book out, Robert Jordan says we have enough information to figure out who Mesaana is and who killed Asmodean.)
In short, it's worth reading if you've read the preceding books and liked them, but you certainly shouldn't if you haven't.
Rating: 
Summary: Slow?!!! You all are kidding, right?
Review: Well, the SST may be in a hangar, but this book moves at the speed of sound if not light! And even though Mr. Jordan guides the plot at that "break-neck" pace he is still able to let us know what Elayne's servants are thinking while they dress her (Essande, Stephanie and Naris-who could EVER forget them!). I'll be honest, I am so glad that Mr. Zippy has moved on from all those encounters with the Forsaken or from having us hear all those boring converstions the Chosen have with each other, you know blah, blah, blah....Lets get down to great fiction like-what does every single character in the book have on (down to the jewelry)- now thats reading! Oh ok, I do have one bone to pick with Speed Racer-where are the rest of the Aes Sedai? I mean the book says that there are hundreds of them and I don't think we've met them all yet. Come on Flash Gordan, quit holding back on us! I want to get to know EVERY single sniffing-bickering-dress smoothing-talking down her nose Sister on your world (and what she's wearing and what's her Ajah etc.)!
So yes I liked the book alot, BUT slow down Mr. Crystal .... we want you around for the finale that surely my heirs will read one day!
Rating: 
Summary: Bad...Bad...Really Bad!
Review: I'm not going to write a detailed review. You can check out any of the 1500+ negative reviews for that. Sorry, but I just can't waste anymore of my limited number of "heartbeats" hashing over this loooooooooong-winded poor excuse for a novel.
Rating:
Summary: 675 pages of disappointing nothing!
Review: Fans of "The Wheel of Time": Save your $$ and your time, and
just skip this one. In 675 pages and 30 chapters, absolutely
nothing happens! There's just a single chapter that holds
your attention, and it can easily be skipped. Seemingly Jordan
has decided to milk this series for all it's worth, and fans
be damned! He has done this before in the last three or four
books, but still gave the reader SOMETHING worthwhile to chew
on, at least in some of the chapters. In this one, it's a total
waste of time, NOTHING is advanced. To add insult to injury,
the only dramatic tension occurs in the last few pages!!!
Instead of creating a satisfying partial resolution to close
the book -as he has done in the past- he has chosen to end
with a cruel cliffhanger (i.e. no ending at all,) a torture to
fans that now must wait two years or more to see what happens
next.Careless and insulting. With this book Jordan shows himself
unworthy of his legions of fans. Avoid this book!
Rating:
Summary: Robert Jordan ¿ All-Star Shortstop
Review: I now know what Red-Sox fans must feel like. The initial promise of a series for the ages starts petering mid-season. However, hope still exists for a strong finish, only to be dashed by being humiliated loss in a must-win game. But, the shortstop still goes home well paid and the fans are left with their wallets a little lighter and their hearts a little heavier.
Rating:
Summary: A big disppointment
Review: I have purchased and read all the books in The Wheel of Time series , so far (books 1-9), over the past 6 years. After being disappointed with the last installment, I decided to wait, read the copy from the local library, and then decide if I want to purchase the book. I am glad I went this route. This book is once again a disappointment for me. In keeping with the trend introduced in the last book, there are now too many characters, the plot is too wide and the story line has slowed to a crawl. The series should of stopped about 2 books ago, but I think the publishers and author are making too much money off of what they have, so they are trying to strech it out. This is most unfortunate since this has ruined the series.
Rating:
Summary: crossroads of twilight
Review: This collection could have achieved greatness and honor had the writer brought it to a satisfying end within 6-7 books.
Then he could have written epilogues and appendixes to his heart's content. In fact, I wish the publishers would do just that - simply discard everything after book 5 and start over with a new # 6...
editing the others as addendums. After purchasing # 7, I ceased being an avid fan, feeling "mis-led and deprived" of follow-up of loose ends & main story line. (The same frustrations about # 10 could be applied to it). I agree that it has been therapeutic to read the current reviews / feedback from devoted followers of the WOT series... not to mention more satisfying than reading the last books. Something was amiss in book 6, and the series has continued to fall into a wilderness of writing and sub-plots. Perhaps the author enjoys the world he created so much that he just wants to travel around and visit it rather than finish the story. And lastly, it is a grave misjustice to Tolkien to even suggest relating WOT to the level of his work. I would hope literary critcs would withdraw any such statements.
Rating:
Summary: Abominable
Review: Even given the ever slowing pace of the Wheel of Time books, I was staggered at the tempo to which Robert Jordan has managed to slow in this latest installment. If it wasn't for some of his stylistic hallmarks (or should I say mannerisms) I would even doubt that the first book and the tenth were written by the same man. And if the ending of book nine gave promise that the effort needed to persevere with the previous three or four books might actually be rewarded, as I progressed with book ten those hopes were quickly drowned in tears of boredom. Eventually I had to adopt a special reading style, which was more akin to scanning, in order to spare my mental faculties, but to be honest I think one could read this book upside down without missing anything of importance.
It is a great shame that a story which started off so well should have come to this and I'm sorry to say that Mr Jordan has thoroughly lost the plot.
Rating:
Summary: I'm very glad that...
Review: I borrowed this one from the library. As most of the other reviewers have said this book does nothing to advance the plot. There have now been three "set-up" books with no advancement (plot, character, ect). But you do get a lot of drivel about the thread count of the pillows that a weaver in a small fishing town (that a major character has never been to or heard of) makes. Ohh, tell us more you great sage. Didn't something major happen in an earlier book that was incredibly important (hint: the taint) and you hear almost nothing about it! With all the genius that the major players are supposed to have, they act like spoiled brats with a power complex. At this point I'd like to see the Dark Lord and the Foresaken take over the world and reduce the world to ash so we're not exposed chapter after chapter of who said what to whom and what clothes someone is or is not sweating in or smoothing. Skip this one or borrow it from the library.
Rating: 
Summary: for the most part, a major letdown
Review: While it is interesting to see the details of the characters fleshed out, it is time for things to start happening. I can only pray the next book is a lot of action because this was rather made me irritated with the author. Especially given the slow movement of the last books.
It seems like alot of interesting storylines just dissapear and so much goes unexplained that he starts in the first place.
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