the shadow rising

The Wheel of Time (Part II)

The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan

The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan

May 1, 2021 by ingres77 15 Comments

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 […]

My favorite of these yet, but I can see the story starting to creak . . .

October 31, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

Wow, it only took me eight days to read this. I feel like I was reading it forever. Actually, that’s not always a bad thing to say, though it certainly sounds bad. Sometimes I feel that way about a book if it’s a slog, but sometimes I feel that way if I was really sucked into the world and I’m having trouble pulling my head out of it again. I think this may be more of the latter than the former, here, though the book […]

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