 | Author: | Robert Jordan Wheel of Time Series |
| Genre: | Fantasy | |
| Publisher: | Tor Books | |
| Year Published: | 2000 |
I found it to have a pretty boring start, and had to force myself to get past the prologue. The rest of the novel's okay - but not that awe-inspiring.
The only reason I'd look at the other novels would be Mat ... funny guy. I like it when he's running away from Tylin.
This being the 9th of I don't know how many novels eventually, I have a feeling that Jordan's running out of ideas here ... maybe the first books were really good, but I don't know because the person who's supposed to lend me the series started me with Book 9 (duh!). I got to that conclusion because a lot of the characters come across as weak but they have promise of being strong characters - and they probably were strong characters in previous books.
Based on this book, I'd probably not buy the series. I don't freaking care how good the first books may be, because this series is one of those "continuing" sagas - any novel in itself is not completed, and you have to read the last of the series to know how things will end ... but by novel 9, the steam is running out and you'd probably not be satisfied with the ending... considering you had a good beginning.
Reminds me of the Vampire Chronicles.
When will the editors come in and tell a famous author that it's time to end a series? Honestly, the author is seldom a good judge of that, but the editor, who's got advantage of looking from the outside, should know.
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