This is why you should never skip leg day:Seriously, how on earth does a person stand this way? Is that supposed to be Rand? Dude's supposed to be 20 years old, not like this weather-beaten asshole. Who the hell does he think he's about to box, there's no one there! Why is he looking at me? Why is all of the original U.S. hardcover art for this series so bad in these details?*****************************This book appears to split readers. Some think it's the beginning of the well-known mid-serie...

When I read the prologue I thought this would be better than it's predecessor, after all it had such a great start but how wrong I was. What started as an amazing start soon turned into a slow bullock cart, picking speed only at occasions. I think I have made peace with the women in this story. Nothing can change them (hoping against hope Sanderson did a better job when he wrote the final books). They will always make me angry, cringe, exasperated, and irritated with their antics, and I have to

One fact, though, turned up again and again in those tales. The Laurel Crown of Illian had been given a new name. The Crown of Swords.And for some reason, men and women who told the tales often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm is coming, they said, staring southward in worry. The storm is coming.Whooooooosh.That’s just the sound of the plot development being blown out the window.A Crown of Swords is the slowest Wheel of Time book so far, by a clear mile. If you think any of

I read a lot of comments about Jordan's epic which mention (or outright complain about) its pace and staging. As far as I'm concerned, its deliberate pace and intricate staging are pluses. It's not often that one finds such thoroughly realized visions of epic stories. This series is a genuine throw-back in story-telling style. Instead of going the route of non-stop, breathless action, Jordan spends a good deal of time taking his readers through the sometimes withering grind of day-to-day existen...

I'm loving them more as I go along 🖤

Month 7 means book 7 of the Wheel of Time series with the Hard Core Fantasy buffs at Buddies Books and BaublesThe Wheel of Time and I have an interesting relationship. Almost all of the characters totally infuriate me but I love the writing, cultures, world building and overall plots so even when in this book everything moves at a snail’s pace and almost nothing really happens plot wise I’m still thoroughly entertained and enjoy most of the story. But seriously the plot is moving along like this...

The more I think about this book the more annoyed I am so I'm dropping my rating from 3 to 2 stars. That's purely because of Tylin, it would probably have been much higher without her!I've fallen so far behind our group buddy read of this series thanks to this book. I read it back inJuly and I've spent the last couple of months trying to pretend it never existed. I was so in love with this series, yes there were problems with it but I was still completely hooked on the story and eager to find ou...

If someone ever wanted to make the case against men writing women, they would probably find Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" a treasure trove.* Perhaps the biggest problem in this series is Jordan's representation of women. Because they are so typically presented as "strong female characters," they lack depth and sometimes become, well, irritating. Let's get right into it. There is a great deal of titillating temptation, haughty sniffing, and blushing modesty/ immodesty that I suspect many re...

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.My reviews of The Wheel of Time novels are getting just as repetitive as the actual books. There's really not much more to say. A Crown of Swords is another long slow installment in which there are too many detailed descriptions of clothing, references to spanking, concerns about bosoms, and people blushing. There are pages and pages which chronicle secondary characters' extensive internal thoughts. But what bugs me most, though, are the constant depiction...

I'm starting to love Nynaeve more and more.

Full video review here: https://youtu.be/zGgcDy6fWP0Was this the beginning of the slog? It certainly didn't feel like it to me. This was another solid entry to the series and while it wasn't as action packed as others, it was never boring. This was a great book for character work and made my favorites even better. There was payoff for things that were foreshadowed since Eye of the World and it just goes to show the amount of planning that went into this series. Onward to Path of Daggers!

Full review to come, but for now, one quick observation. Even though many Wheel of Time fans cite this book as when the series really starts to slow down, I actually enjoyed this one more than the last two books! I'm kind of surprised I liked this book more, when the two preceding ones tend to be very popular amongst most fans. Either I'm getting used to the slower pace, or maybe, I'm just not quite... normal?!?(Nah, that can't be it!) As always, here is my stacking of the Wheel of Time books, i...

This was another enjoyable instalment in Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series. Anyone who has reached this stage of the series knows exactly what to expect from Jordan's writing and the story. The guy is an excellent storyteller and it is easy to get caught up in the stories of the various characters we have grown to like in the earlier books. Not that it was a book without flaws. I did enjoy reading this one but it is fair to say that in terms of overall plot advancement very little actual...

Nothing happens until the last 10% as usual.

“Pray that the heart of stone remembers tears and the soul of fire, love. “Initially, I was reading the Wheel of Time because of its unique stature in the fantasy world. Later, I was mesmerised by the realm. Now I am reading because I want to know the ending which is still very far away and with each passing tome it seems to be farther still. A Crown of Swords is not an exception to this rule: while it reads well, the focus is on the internal experiences of the main characters, and less on polit...

A Crown of Swords (Wheel of Time, #7), Robert JordanA Crown of Swords is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the seventh book of The Wheel of Time. It was published by Tor Books and released on May 15, 1996. A Crown of Swords consists of a prologue and 41 chapters.A Crown of Swords has three primary plotlines:Plotline I: Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, prepares to attack the Forsaken Sammael in Illian while enjoying life with his friend, Min Farshaw, and attempting to quell the re...

Is there a rating below 1 star I can give?I think this is about where I gave up on this bloody series. (And I only got this far because I was on a long road trip/camping trip, and I picked them up cheap at a used book store in Anchorage, IIRC.) But I have to admit that I can't tell them apart. I honestly have no idea what happened where after about book 1. Which is, in large part, why I gave up on this atrocious pile of overwritten, paid-by-the-word crap.A friend of mine said, at the time, of Bo...

Every person who has even a passing interest in fantasy knows The Wheel of Time series gets slow in the middle. So are we there yet? No, but things do slow down somewhat. Is it still a good read? Most definitely, yes!The book starts with Perrin being a lovesick puppy for about one fourth of the book. Exciting events happen around him which is no wonder considering what happened in the end of the previous book and the fact that this one starts right where the former left, but Perrin's POV makes t...

It is often difficult to reconcile how much I love the adventure of this series with the blatant sexism that pervades nearly every chapter involving a woman interacting with a man. In the first four books, it wasn't as much of an issue, because I saw it mostly as an in-world problem rather than something inherently problematic with Jordan's perspective that was interfering with his ability to tell a good and believable story. This changed in book five, where the ridiculousness exploded to such a...

Someone really needed to explain the concept of consent to Jordan.