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Summary: New rich characters are added to this great series
Review: I was worried that this, number 7 in the series, might
not be so good, particularly with the several delays in
meeting announced shipping dates. FEAR NOT! It is very
good and closer to the quality of the first 4 in the series,
as opposed to 5 & 6 that I felt fell off a bit. New and rich
characters were developed that I felt were sorely needed.
(When Moraine and Lanfear died, and Lan became a non-entity,
I thought a lot was lost). I didn't think that the end-
game was up-to-speed, but perhaps a re-read will change my
mind. All in all ... Excellent. Series fans will not be
disappointed. Now.... I have to wait another year for #8.
Irond
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Summary: THIS B00k RULZ!
Review: DUH DUH DU
Rating: 
Summary: A Good Yet Drawn Out Book
Review: The seventh book of the wheel of time series is good. But it is pretty drawn out and there's a hundred charcters you have to keep up with. Though this book has a great ending like most of this series. There are a lot of Ashaman, dedictated, and soldiers dying and it's because of one thing: the taint on saiden. Rand has three loves now, and the Forsaken are getting angrier. Some parts of this book especially the ending won't let you put this book down.
A very fun, interesting read.
Rating: 
Summary: Waste of Time and Money
Review: The Wheel of Time series is "New Age" fantasy. Channeling, a new age technique, is the only form of magic in this series. The series GARBAGE! I've read much better fantasy than Robert Jordan. For example, Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series is 100 times BETTER than the Wheel of Time! I wasted my time reading the 1st 6 books, and I am glad I had the sense to stop there! Don't waste your money buying JUNK! Don't waste your time reading this JUNK!
Rating: 
Summary: Another Upturn in the Wheel
Review: This series has been like a roller-coaster ride for me. There have been definite peaks and valleys, and, after suffering through a valley with "Lord of Chaos", the series has taken another rise in this installment.
Several sub-plots are playing themselves out in this volume, including Rand's successful escape from his imprisonment by the Aes Sedai and his subsequent removal of Colavaere Saighan from the Sun Throne. After her removal, Rand banishes her to a farm, but she ends up hanging herself.
Lan, Moiraine's former warder, has returned and has married Nynaeve.
Nynaeve, Elayne, and Mat are continuing their search for the Bowl of the Winds, a ter'angreal which may be able to reverse the endless heat wave which has been covering the world and restore the world's natural weather.
Finally, the Seanchan have come back and are attacking Ebou Dar.
Some interesting new charatcters, such as the Asha'man, men who have come to the Black Tower in order to learn how to channel, have appeared in this volume.
I found this book to be better than book six was. Overall, I've enjoyed the series as a whole, but there has been little consistency from one book to the next. Aside from books one and two, the qualtiy of each following volume has changed with each ensuing installment; one book would be good, and the next would be not so good. I hope book eight will break the pattern and be at least as good, if not better, than book seven was.
Rating:
Summary: Same Old
Review: Braids are pulled. Skirts are smoothed. Men are degraded. The three ta'veren are clueless about women. Rand has temper tantrums. Lews Therin cackles madly in the background. The quest for enchanted tupperware continues. Clothes are described in excruciating detail. The required number of Forsaken is killed.
Despite these things, some good did happen in this book. It wasn't nearly as slow as book 6. I almost cried from joy last book when they discovered Traveling, no more month long journeys! I was also overjoyed when Elayne and Nynaeve finally began to grow some sense. Adviendha is having a good effect on them. Some of the same phrases are used constantly, do you know how many times Nynaeve pulls her braid and girls smooth their skirts? Talk about irksome. The constant description of clothes is still incredibly annoying. I think the guy wants to be a fashion designer. The World of Dreams was created simply so the he could describe dresses. hem, moving on. Plot does manage to progress. Another Forsaken was killed. Bet ya didn't see that coming! We can probably predict how many books there will be based off the number of forsaken. The thing in this book that bothered me the most was definitely the Whitecloaks/Morgase. We didn't need to know all the political currents of the whitecloaks if they're all killed by the Seanchan! One chapter would have been enough. Many subplots have not been wrapped up, and instead continue to grow. Ah well. Good, entertaining books, but not prime literature.
Rating: 
Summary: This is where the decline began/it's part of the series
Review: "This is the lowest rating I have given any of the books of the series. I liked the book, but I don't really think that anything happened in it. Rand fights one of the Forsaken, but we are not sure if that one is dead at the end of the fight." That was what I said when I first reviewed this book three years ago. From further research, I have since discovered that this book was the first to not be fully edited after the author had written it. I think much of the angst and frustration that the author received over book ten he should have received over this one. It is the same old formula of a Forsaken dead every so many books, but now the formula was old and trite, and poorly edited by the author, as well as being the first of the Unedited Volumes by the publisher. Initially, I gave this a four star rating because of the introduction of Cadsuane, but after reviewing, rethinking and re-reading, I had to change mine opinion. Both as a stand alone, and as part of the series, book seven can only be considered a stop-gap, one that we had to wait for and after the first six volumes, one that was not very satisfying. COT is not the worst book of the series, COS is.
Rating:
Summary: please kill them off
Review: This book is a very refreshing addition to the series. Book 5 was good, book six could have been better, but this one definitly delivers. It's up there with the first 3. I've read over half in under 3 weeks, and I hope to finish in another 2.
Rating:
Summary: The descent begins . . .
Review: This series has gone completely in the tank and A Crown of Swords is where the tanking begins. By itself, ACoS has decent action and some plot developments. But its resolution is ambiguous, unlike each of the previous six books, and it adds more questions to a plotline already polluted with innumerable mysteries, intrigues, factions, and characters from the six previous books (and 3500+ pages) that preceded it.After the end of Book 6 (Lord of Chaos), it seemed that the series had regained its direction. But in ACoS, Jordan introduces numerous "new" characters (most notably Moridin), new concepts, and new intrigues. The pacing slows to a near crawl for nearly 600 pages before erupting to the uncertain ending. Worst of all is the dithering by Rand, the messiah figure who is paralyzed by inaction for most of this book and Book 8. The first five books of this series are great. But book 6 is an interlude from the non-stop action and this book begins the series descent into unabashed authorial self-indulgence. To wit: The Wheel of Time Series is now at 10 books plus a prequel and a guidebook but less has happened to the characters and the plotline in books 7-10 than did in any two books of the first five. The 10 books are probably seven times the length of Lord of the Rings and at least two or three more sequels are likely. If you're prepared to stick it out to a (hopefully) colossal ending, then get this book, the execrable Path of Daggers and the others. If not, get out now and save yourself the grief so many other disappointed fans have endured.
Rating:
Summary: Soooooo much better than the Lord of Chaos.
Review: After trying desperately to get through The Lord of Chaos, the Crown of Swords is a breath of fresh air. I gave it more stars than it perhaps deserves, if only because book 6 was so terrible. Things actually kind of happen in this book. Kinda. I'm now going to try to get through book 8, and hope that Jordan keeps the "Mat knows women, Perrin knows women, but I'm a clueless Messiah foretold in the Age of Legends as the defeater of the Dark One. . .but even I am powerless against feminine wiles of my strong-willed co-protagonists!" to a minimum. (PS. Lan is too cool for that annoying, stubborn to the point of being mentally retarded pony-tailed woman. Seriously, their relationship makes no sense. Grin and bear it, I guess.)
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