Cannonball Read 18

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I’m finally done with the Wheel of Time…..

A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth, and even myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the third age by some, an Age yet to come, an age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. there are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it […]

The Wheel of Time: Book 13 (review IX): I’m honestly too tired to string three thoughts together. This is my speed round review!

Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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Years ago, I had a brief but memorable relationship with a woman. It ended fairly amicably. Some years later we reconnected, and I was initially reminded of the good times. All those memories came flooding back, and it was exciting catching up on the years we’d been apart. And then, flushed with the realization that we ended it for a reason, I remembered how little I actually liked her. The wind was completely removed from my sails, and I limped back to safer waters. This […]

I came into this thinking Brandon Sanderson was a master. I underestimated him – the Wheel of Time: Book 12 (review part VIII)

The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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I’m entering a new era in this series, and want to start this review with some thoughts unencumbered by the knowledge of how thinks change. This is the point at which The Wheel of Time turns to the better, according to everyone I’ve ever talked to who has finished it. Following the death of Robert Jordan in 2007, his widow and editor, Harriet McDougal, selected Brandon Sanderson to finish this series based partly on his novel Elantris and partly on a eulogy written by Sanderson […]



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