Rating: 
Summary: Excellent
Review: This book delivers. Sure it only takes place over the course of a couple of days, but they're extremely significant days to the series. To anyone complaining about there not being enough Rand... they're forgetting that Mat and Perrin and ta'veren (who are linked with the Dragon Rebord) and just as important to the fate of Randland as Rand is. Perrin is dealing with one major thread (the Shaido nation) and Mat another (the Seanchan)... both of those have to be taken care of priot to Tarmon Gaidon.Bottom line: I couldn't put this book down. It was a page turner from start to finish. True fans of the series will see this book for what it is: one more excellent chapter in the WoT saga. People who like to ... and moan for no other reason than they have no lives outside of Internet message boards (I'm looking at anyone who rated this below 4-stars) should spend their money elsewhere.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing
Review: After one of the most exciting chapters in the entire series at the end of Winter's Heart, I was excited to get this book. Alas I was disappointed in the slow pace and waste of 600 pages that insued. Rand cleanses Saidin but the book starts before he does and half the book goes by during the cleansing. Just wasteful. What I'm really galled about is the 2 year wait before buying this drivel. If he wants to keep his fans he should consider stepping up the pace and moving on to other things!!
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Summary: Just Fading Away
Review: Someone once said "old generals never die, they just fade away." When I first began reading the Wheel of Time series, I thought that Robert Jordan was in the process of writing one of the best fantasy stories ever written. However, with book ten of the series, I've come to the conclusion; this is a potentially great story that instead of coming to a climax is just going to fade away. Even though I want to know how the story ends, is it worth the effort to keep plowing through thick books that make little, if any, progress towards resolution. Couldn't the author tie up at least one dangling plot line in a 680 page book? Instead, the author continues to add tensions, conflicts, characters, and unresolved plotlines with every book in the series. At this point, unless you have a very good memory, the reader almost needs a synopsis of the previous nine books before every chapter. In fact, it occasionally appears that even the author has forgotten.
Robert Jordan has the potential of being a great writer. I'm distressed that he has permitted himself to become bogged down with side plots and peripheral characters. I really do want to know how he resolves the story of Rand, Mat, and Perrin. I'm just afraid that "Crossroads" in the title may be an indication that it is going to take him ten more books to finish it.
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Summary: This Book Was So Bad . . .
Review: . . . It doesn't deserve a review.
Rating: 
Summary: Its great Jordan WOT writing at its worst...
Review: ....of course, if you are stuck to the series, this is no reason to stop now. It just leads up to a fantastic book. There is just one part in this book that throws it off balance, and that is Egwene's role. It just isn't fun to read AT ALL. 100 pages of descriptions on movements. I really like Mat's parts though, but he isn't going anywhere with that Daughter of Nine Moons! Besides from marrying her in the future, all that happened in this one is... well.. the same stuff. Perrin... hate to break it to ya, but all you have to do is send in an Asha-man in the white of the Aiel servents to an empty tent with travelling, and the take Faile, bring her back, and cry with happiness, it dousn't matter. But seriously, why not make use of the Asha-man, dangit! And Elayne is all this political talk...except only Daved makes it interesting (Can't wait until he gets kicked around by the Aei Sedai in the next one.) Anyway, the truth is, Jordan, you really have to bring back your good pace. We dont need descriptions, we need story, and I am stuck to your characters now. So I can't help but read the next ones, but make them good! Man!
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Summary: who is controlling this series?
Review: The PUBLISHER!
Listen, I love these books...books 5 and 6 were two of the best books I've ever read in the genre, but this is ridiculous.
Jordan has stopped telling the stories of these heroic people, and instead is PADDING his work with endless, tiresome, and unimportant drivel.
At this point in the series, do you honestly CARE what kind of velvet Elayne is wearing? Stop describing clothing and get to the point!
I felt cheated and will not buy the next book until it is out in paperback...or maybe (god forbid) I'll just borrow it from the library and save the money.
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Summary: The Windows ME of science fiction/fantasy
Review: I have to say that I found this book truly dissappointing and wish that I had waited for it to come out in paper back or even picked it up at a used store. This one was very boring and I can't really believe that so little story could come out of so many pages. Enough already! Jordan needs to get back to the original characters and stop trying to follow so many at once. I do like the occasional chapter to see from another character's viewpoint, but he has really taken this too far. The book drags on and on needlessly...too much set up. It's not like it is great writing anyway, so get back to the storylines that first interested everyone---Rand, Matt, and Perrin. I could care less about what all the endless, interchangeable array of women are wearing! And putting all the 'female' chapters together really makes this book drag...I honestly think I could be happy just reading the 'male' chapters, but in this case that would only be about 1/4 of the book! I'm starting to feel that Jordan is just creating books for cash. He has a captive audience that will need to know what happens to the story they have been following for years so he has nothing to lose. It is like a microsoft 'interim' product, just a few new touches to make some cash until the next real installment. 2 years waiting in vain and now probably 2 more. I will abandon this series if he does this again.
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Summary: still have hope
Review: ok. this book pretty much stunk. all i was excited about was the inevitable meeting between Rand and Logain and that ended up being dissapointing. nothing happened. how long will it take get something done. the last bood ended so good. i would almost say it was as good as the end of Lord of Chaos.
i still have some hope for RJ, though. remember that he is the same man who wrote Shadow Rising and Fires of Heaven. i hope he gets the ball rolling on the next book because this one was frustrating. it made me very angry that he had little to no time with Rand. very little mention of the cleasing of the taint, even though the jacket to the book mentions it. i also did not like the fact that most of the book took place before the end of the last book. i will still hope that the best fantasy writer of our time can redeem himself.
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Summary: Why can't I choose a negative number to rate this book?
Review: I came to love Jordan's style of writing early on in the WOT series. The first several installments were action packed with enough detail to keep things flowing smoothly. As the series crept on, I read reviews submitted saying how they didn't like where the current books were going. After reading the books, I completely disagreed with them. I thought each book added new life to the series, and continued the multitude of plot lines. My enjoyment continued right through "Winter's Heart." And now it's come to a crashing halt. I read somewhere that the reason Jordan takes so long between his books is that he wants to make sure he has the best finished product he can write. After waiting for this new book, I expected something great. What he gave us, wasn't worth reading. And I mean that litterally! You could actually skip this book in the series, and pick up with the next book not missing a thing. Absolutely NOTHING happens in this book. The entire book could have been contained in one detailed Prologue. So, I'm left with either two possibilities, 1) Jordan's talent has declined to the point where he can't write a worthwhile book, or 2) he is dragging this series out to make as much money as he possibly can. I'd have to go with option #2, since I find it difficult to believe an author of Jordan's stature could fall so far in so short a period. Unfortunately, my negative recommendation won't stop you from buying this book, since you are already 9 books into the series. But, consider yourself warned, do not expect much if anything from this work.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: The first five or six books of this series were so good I couldn't put them down, but the last couple have been so bogged down in details that they are boring. This whole book could have been a single chapter. The plot did not get moved forward at all, there was no action, basically it felt like an attempt to make the series even longer and make more money. I want to finish reading this series, but it's becoming tedious to read. Get on with the story already!
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