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Summary: FAN TIRED OF BEING RIPPED OFF!
Review: ROBERT JORDAN SHOULD REREAD HIS FIRST SEVEN BOOKS.THEN MAYBE HE'LL BE ABLE TO ADVANCE THE CHARACTERS AND STORY LINE TO IT"S RIGHTFUL END.WORD TO THE WISE RJ ;STOP RIPPING OFF WHAT READERS YOU HAVE LEFT!
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Summary: New Spring...there is nothing new about it!
Review: A presequel for the ongoing series of "Wheel of Time". After alittle on-line research, at least, 2 more presequels are due between conclusion of WOT series (estimating ~ 3 more books) Robert Jordan is averaging 2 years a book. Guess, there are ten more years to go. Really! My suggestion is to borrow it from the library like I did.
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Summary: Prequel?
Review: Someone obviously didn't see what happened with the 3-part 'prequel' to Star Wars. RJ, you're a great writer, I love your books, but whats the deal? You getting paid by the word or something? Finish the darn story, THEN worry about a prequel, thats how it works!
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Summary: The story isn¿t moving forward, we my as well look back!
Review: I found myself in two minds while reading New Spring. After waiting so long to reach the end of the series, it was annoying to find RJ has been working on a prequel instead!! At the same time, I liked reading about Moiraine and Siuan as Accepted and the testing for the shawl. Of course the final third of the book describing how Lan becomes Moiraine's warder is largely unchanged from the short story in Legends so that adds nothing new. There are flashes aplenty of the RJ we saw in the first 5 WOT books and I do wish he had spent more time on the Aiel war (yes, I know, the story has to start somewhere after all!) and perhaps some discussion between the Accepted on their preferred Ajah. I look forward to reading in the next two prequels of Siuan's ascent to the Amyrlin Seat and how the search for the Dragon shifts to the Two Rivers. Since the story clearly isn't moving forward very much, we may as well look back!!!Otherwise, my WOT cribs still apply. The clichéd mannerisms appear in full force and the same pathetic excuse for a map appears again, leaving the reader trying hard to precisely locate the action (the position of the Hook? East of the Erinin and Tar Valon of course, but beyond that, keep guessing). But that is OK. Since RJ is on his own trip and unconcerned about his readers, I now read his books through the County Library and decline to buy them. He has every right to write the way he likes, and I have the choice to buy, or not.
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Summary: Enough of the 1 star reviews!
Review: Most of the 1 star reviews appear to be written by people who haven't read the book. This is not simply a reprint of the original short story. The first 202 pages (of a 334 page book) are brand new, and the rest has been rewritten, in some places just a tweak here and there, and in others a more significant rewrite. Even though this does not advance the main story forward, it is a much more interesting read than Crossroads of Twilight (the last full-length novel), and it provides a nice chunk of information about an important aspect of the Wheel of Time narrative--just how and why did Moiraine begin hunting for the Dragon Reborn. It's important to note that the rewrite of New Spring truly does add to the original short story, and gives us additional insight not available in the original story.
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Summary: Great Background story
Review: This book is a geat background of some of my favorite characters in the main series. It fleshes out the history of Lan, Moraine, Leane and Siuan. Also, most interestingly, although minor to the story, is the new information about the lost kingdom Malkier. Although the book/publisher says that it can be read as a stand alone novel without reading the series first, I would not recommend that. It contains spoilers that would greatly reduce the enjoyment of at least the first book, although it could probably be read right after the eye of the world without spoilers.
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Summary: A boring prequal
Review: New Spring, is... different to say the most. The only interesting part of the book is the perspectives of the story line. I did like the way Jordan Robert used perspectives of characters' rarely used before. Getting to "know" the characters minds is the only reason I would read this book if I've already read the rest of the series.
The story is of Moraine and Siuan trying to find the Dragon Reborn. Really the story line isn't very interesting. In the start a foretelling, a prophecy of future events, says that the Dragon is reborn in so many words.
It is an okay book and I would still read it, but no new plot elements are introduced and I would rather read the end of the series than a prequel. The plot is already moving too slowly in the series. I suggest reading New Spring anyway, especially if you've not read any of the Wheel of Time series.
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Summary: For the love of the Creator...
Review: This goes out to all of those one-stars out there. First of all, yes, RJ's writing did become a little sluggish in the last few, however, look at this time in between Crossroads and Book 11 as time for him to re-refine his style and deliver 11 with a punch so hard we will all be on our rear ends. Also, as the original short story was not 334 pages, this cannot be the story all over again. Normally, more pages means more story. Hmmmm... Please, if you are going to criticize an artist's (and noone can disagree that Robert Jordan is an artist) work, give good criticism as opposed to something like "NO MORE RJ until he finishes what he started
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Summary: I was shocked
Review: I have stuck with Jordan for year after year after year. I have collected all of the WOT series in hardback. Like many of you I have grown very bored and disillusioned by the direction the series has taken. Needless to say I was dumbfounded as to why when we are all hoping for a dot on the horizon to show us that the end is near, here comes a _prequel_???? Unbelievable. See you in 2 years.
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Summary: Good Jump in Time
Review: This book gave me a different view of characters that I had engrained in my mind. Moiraine and Siuan seemed so strong and confident, and this story seems to make them even more personable. It DOES seem a bit odd to come back to them at this point in time in the story seeing as how both of them have become much less important in the main plot by book 10 (don't want to spoil it for people who don't know). The one thing that truly excited me about this book is the number of doors that are being opened. I see other series about Artur Hawkwing's times and other "historical" series. This book is well-written as always and helps to add to the suspense of the FINALE that will come. I am impatient to see how the series will end, but that is the joy of a book.
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