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Summary: Loosing Impetus
Review: I want to be fair and objective about this series so, I have to begin by saying that the first 4 volumes were excellent. Since then, however, the series has gotten progressively more boring. If Brian Jordans ambition was to see how long he could drag out a story he has succeeded. The earlier tension and plot have been lost and much like Terry Goodkinds' "Wizards 1st Rule", the "Wheel of Time" seems to have lost its way. Every book, and this one is no exception, introduces a stream of new characters whose purpose in the tale seems ornamental at best. Please finish this series in the next book.
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Summary: Absolutely Nothing Happens At All; Nada, Zilch, Squat
Review: Mat doesn't marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons, Egwene doesn't retake the White Tower, Perrin doesn't rescue Faile, Elayne doesn't become queen, Nynaeve *still* doesn't mature and Rand doesn't do anything. The Forsaken are totally ineffective, the Black Ajah are inept, Aes Sedai in general act like a pack of dysfunctional little girls, the Sea Folk continue their incessant whining, and nobody seems to have even noticed that the taint was removed from saidar in the previous book. It only takes 680 pages for all this to not happen. I wonder how much longer Jordan is going to milk this. For Shai'tan's sake, finish the series!
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Summary: please conclude the series
Review: The Wheel of Time used to be my favorite series. Not anymore. Far too many characters, very little action and boring subplots have doomed this series from being one of the all time best. I skipped several chapters. Here's hope that the author will conclude the series quickly.
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Summary: Six hundred seventy-eight pages and NOTHING happens
Review: What a disappointment this series has become. The first three books were so gripping and fast-paced. Glaciers evidence more action and change than this novel. At the end of the novel, nothing has happened. Perrin still seeks to free Faille from the Shaido. Elayne still seeks to secure the Lion Throne. Egwene still seeks to consolidate her control of the Aes Sedai and to reunite the splintered order. Mat is still traveling around with the the Princess of the Nine Moons, still railing against his seemingly fated destiny to have her as his wife. Rand? He is hardly seen at all, but like all the rest does nothing. Guess cleansing the male side of the source plain wore him out. Robert Jordan needs to pick up the pace and draw this series to an end. His readers deserve better than they got with Crossroads of Twilight.
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Summary: You could probably skip this one and go on to the next.
Review: This is the first book in the series that I have been disappointed with. Nothing happens. The last two books I felt were a bit slow and failed to develop or resolve the minor plots, but had important enough endings to warrant reading. There is alot of set up in this novel but Jordan fails to resolve even the minor plots that you expected solved 2 books ago. The most exciting thing that happened in Crossroads was the purchase of a bit of grain. Much of the book revolves around minor characters, when fans of the series are itching to see the main 4-some push on to some kind of ending. In fact, you get bogged down with even more minor characters in this book doing the same sorts of things that you've seen many times before in this series: arguing, cat fighting, back stabbing, being stubborn, humiliating one another, basically the same old same old. Jordan really needs to push the plots involving Rand, Perin, Mat and Egwene forward. I'll probably continue reading the series since I have so much invested in it and I love the characters so much, but I won't be waiting for the next one like I have in the past. Jordan should take a look at George Martin's series and get an idea of how a plot should move forward in each book.
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Summary: Make it stop
Review: I will say little of this novel itself, and focus instead on its author, Robert Jordan. This man almost single-handedly represents what is wrong with the fantasy genre today. It's not because he lacks talent - it's because he has talent but betrays it in favor of the all mighty dollar, and at the cost of his loyal fans. ...P>If you want good fantasy (which "The Wheel of Time" started out to be), turn your sights to George R.R. Martin and his "Song of Ice & Fire" series. THAT is how it's done.
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Summary: So very disappointing
Review: I have been an unwavering fan of the Wheel of Time series, having re-read the first nine books three times. Now number ten comes along and it seems as though it is written by another author. That, or else Jordan has lost his inspiration and plot and is wallowing about. I find that hard to believe. He's a better writer than that. I hate to admit it, but it would seem that now that we are "addicted" to the series, we are going to get "filler" for the next few books, and line his pockets. So very disappointing.
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Summary: Wonderful set-up, but a poor conclusion
Review: The book was wonderful, as can always be expected from Jordan, yet it was still more set up for future events. However, now these events are coming closer and closer. I'm sure the next book must contain incredible things, with how excited this book made me. The pace stayed the same throughout the book, yet somehow I loved it. There are many moments or suspense or excitement, where nothing happens, as only a master storyteller can create. It's like the feeling you get when in a horror movie and you think something will happen, and then it doesn't. It just makes it scarier when it does.
My only real quibble with the book, is its weak conclusion. I had hoped it would at least follow the others with a major event at the conclusion, but I was disappointed in that aspect.
We can look forward to more action packed books in the future. There are still several countries to bring to Rand, not to mention Shara and the Seanchan. I can see a good four more books to come, and I'll probably love them all.
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Summary: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzwhat, what
Review: Where are the editors? Someone has to stand up to RJ and tell him he can't write 600 pages of exposition and 100 pages of story. I'm being generous in giving him 100 pages of story. I want to scream that I don't care what the snow looks like, that you shouldn't take ten pages to describe nothing happening and what people think about nothing happening. It's like he writes and thinks that it is all gold, that nothing should be cut. I found simple errors in the text that make me wonder if an editor even read it. I started to get mad and actually counted how many pages it would take for the simplest thing to happen, 700.
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Summary: Yawn!!
Review: Yawn!!! Will this series ever get to the ending. I have honestly gotten very tired of the never ending story concept. I will not be reading any more of the series until all of the books are out, and even then I may just skip to the last one just to make sure it actually ends.
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