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Summary: Don't bother
Review: What ever happened to the rule "don't write anything that doesn't develop characters or plot"? This is the worst installment in the series to date. If you like to buy books for no reason I highly recommend Crossroads of Twilight. This book was published for an extra paycheck. Almost nothing happens. More Aes Sedai (hundreds at this point) running around whining and bellyaching. Perrin is still searching, and with the exception of about ten pages, nothing worth reading. Mat is interacting with the DotNM, and has about twenty pages worth reading. Rand has five pages. Egwene has one page worth reading, but that is no surprise because she has been boring me since Shadow Rising. Did I mention Elayne, there's no need to. There is also about fifteen pages about the inner workings in the White Tower and some Darkfriends worth reading, otherwise don't bother.This book was written to extend the series. My recommendation is save your money.
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Summary: I GIVE UP
Review: I have to confess . . . I read this book hoping against hope that it would progress the story, tie up loose ends and begin to weave together the tapestry. It does none of those things. I thought the first few books were darn near Tolkien . . . the last three or four books really have nailed down Jordan's legacy. A man for whom no story is too long, no trite phrase can be repeated enough, and ulimately a man who cares more about selling copy that writing. I WILL NEVER READ ANOTHER JORDAN BOOK AGAIN . . . in contrast, I will read everything written by David Gemmell or George Martin.
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Summary: Don't bother.
Review: Simply put, this just isn't a very good book. I have been a fan of Jordan since picking up The Eye of the World, but this book doesn't live up to the standard of any of the books in the series. At the beginning of this book, most of the characters are doing the same things as they were at the end. Each storyline moves slightly. Egwene story moves the most, and was fairly interesting, but not nearly enough to make this book worthwhile. Elayne's story is just downright bad. By far the wort part is the Perrin storyline. I don't even know why this is such a big deal. It is a boring and hideously pointless story. If it has to be in the book, it could have been relagated to at most 2 chapters. It really bogs down the book and makes it almost unreadable. As it was, it wasn't a very entertaining book. It felt more like a chore to read, than a joy. This was simply one of the biggest wastes of my money and time. I don't like to pay my money for filler. 300 pages (if not more) could have been cut from this book and it would have been the same story. Skip this book, wait for the next one, and pray that is actually advances the story in a noticable way.
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Summary: Jordan's quantity now beginning to lack quality
Review: I have as always, eagerly looked forward to the current installment of the WOT CoT. Jordan'd first 6 books in the series were probably some of the best ever written in the fantasy genre. Alas the last 4 including including CoT have been very dissapointing. Jordan appears to be milking the WOT and at book 10 one feels he is not closer to a conclussion. This book has more new plots and twists with little or no resolutions to old ones. Still worth the purchase for Mats's Story and also in the hope that one day Jodan will finish!!! in the style he started. Basically a filler book.!!!
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Summary: 50 pages crammed into a 680 page book.
Review: I've read all of Jordan's Wheel of Time books more then twice. I would give all of them 4+ stars. Until now. R.J. seems to be devolving into one of those self-important people who love to hear themselves speak (or read what they write in this case). All of his last 2 or 3 books suffered from page bloat, in that 100 pages of useless dialogue (not moving the story), hackneyed phrases and yet another new character to take up space (when he can't seem to devote enough to developing some of the main ones). Crossroads does not suffer from bloat, it seems to revel in page bloat. This book could have been cut down to about 50-75 pages and still had it's usual dose of men complaining about women, women thinking men need to be controlled and people knuckling and sniffing. My advice for readers who haven't picked this up yet, but love the series....wait 6 months and get it out of the 5.99 bin. It will kill a few days time, but not much else.
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Summary: Dynasty
Review: Since book six of the Wheel of Time series, I have felt like Robert Jordan has been making us wait a year for half-hour installments of a soap opera. This book reads and feels like a screen play for Dallas or As The World Turns. Characters make decisions that seem oh so important (Or in the case of Elayne, Utterly BORING, trivial, and not worth the 200 pages of space). The most interesting developments in the book (Mat and Tuon, Rand, etc.) are left only partially explored, and we have to wait for the next book for resolution (we hope.) Either Robert Jordan has gotten lazy and is merely relying on fluff, lost track of the story, or forgotten how to write. His book is like a box of Krispy Kreme donuts - delicious, but decided light bodied and leaving you wanting more substance. He has stopped writing in the compelling manner that in the first five or six books made you feel you were adventuring right along with the main characters. No, we just sit back and watch as the characters agonize (and it is agonizing to read) or what to do for 5 chapters. When this series first started there was more substance in the first 100 pages of any book than what has happened in entire 680 pages of Cross Roads of Twilight. As much fun as I had reading this series, this book left me feeling empty and like I had gorged on a whole box of Crispy Kremes. To Robert Jordan - write like you are capable of, before you lose a fan.
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Summary: Dont bother.
Review: Flash! Tor Books announces that Robert Jordan's Great grandson will complete the epic Wheel of Time series... Grandson predicts at least another 8 to 10 books bringing the total to 38 or 40....
Come on Mr. Jordan wrap it up already! If you left out just the women's clothing descriptions you would have at least one less book.
Number 10 is just filler. The plot again goes nowhere sloowwly.
The 1 star is for the cover art. People dont waste your time or your money. Even for die hards like me (yes I own and have read & reread all of them)it is getting to be very boring.
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Summary: Robert Jordan is a horrible horrible person
Review: Before I read this book I never realized how little a person could say in SO MANY words. Almost 700 pages of NOTHING. We waited how long for this piece of [junk]? If he wants to stop the series he should just stop it, but don't kill us with boredom. This book even surpasses the nothingness of book 5. There is more nothing in here than ever before. Do not read this book, do not buy this book. It's like War & Peace on Valium. Go see a movie or something. Or you could switch to the Terry Goodkind series which is quite similar but far more cool since stuff actually happens. I am writing this so that you don't have to suffer as I have suffered.
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Summary: Lack of Progress
Review: I'm a huge fan of this series, as such I really liked this book as its one more chapter in one of the best fantasy series (at least so far) out there. But the lack of progress in this book is annoying. Half the book is one day from everyone else's perspective (Rand's perspective having been in the last book). Although a lot of action has been set up for the next book I really wish he would collapse some of these story lines and start moving to an end. At this rate Robert Jordan won't survive long enough to write the end of the series.
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Summary: Not Again!
Review: WOT - does that stand for Wheel of Trite? Did Robert Jordan's wife write these last few books.? Either Jordan has a limited recollection of his earlier writings or perhaps he has contracted Alzheimers. Why else would he repeatedly introduce so many new trivial characters in place of developing original plot lines and major characters. It is pure frustration! (And shame on you fellow WOT fans who gave this book four stars even while pointing out the slow pace and lack of story deveolpment.) Tell your accountant not to worry however Mr. Jordan. I have invested so much time that I will read to the bitter end; because the first six books were excellent and I care about the main characters. However, I would NOT RECOMMEND anyone to start what has become a tedious and frustrating trudge through thousands of pages of meaningless new characters, lands and subplots .
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