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The Wheel of Time (Part II)

The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan

The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan

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Part I can be found here. The Shadow Rising (3.5 stars) I’m going to start off with a plot summary, but I’m doing that for a reason. So, if you don’t want spoilers – skip the next few paragraphs. At the end of The Dragon Reborn, Rand took the sword Callandor from the Stone of Tear (thus continuing the allusions to King Arthur), which further cemented his place within the prophecies as the Dragon Reborn. And that’s where we pick up here, in The Shadow […]

Imagine a world where Robert Jordan knew how to write women.

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This is the first Wheel of Time book I haven’t enjoyed more than the last. I was hoping the loss of narrative control I’d been warned about would start later for me than book five. It varies from person to person, from all the reviews I’ve read; some people note a decline starting with this one, others as late as eight, some never (though those are rare, at least in my friends’ GR reviews). Even though I ended up enjoying this book more than I […]



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