As part of the series as a whole, the book is a definite upswing. 'The Path of Daggers' had left most of the main cast at a standstill and triggered my least favorite plot-line of all time - or Plotline of Doom as fandom has it - wherein Faile, Morgase, Two Aiel and some others are taken captive by ...
A strong installment to the series. Finally the main characters (excluding Perrin) accomplish some useful goal without it blowing up in their faces completely. The cliffhangers for Mat and Elayne leave open an interesting if predictable sequence of events for the next book. Rand appears to finally b...
...because I just realised this is book nine and I only have five more of these to go. Also, because Mat and Birgitta are a thing and I ship it. I don't care that there was a prophesy or that Mat acts like those words alone have married him to a woman he doesn't know. Egwene and her helper are a c...
I'm getting there. I'm getting there. I raised my star rating on this from three to four stars; I was probably pretty cranky when I read it lo those many years ago, because I knew it would be a good couple of years before the next installment came out. (It was three years.) And by then - 2000 - th...
A welcome return to form after a very shaky three-book run (reaching its zenith with The Path of Daggers, in which, effectively, nothing happens). I will always hold a special affection for the Wheel of Time, and the late Jordan's unique brand of snail-paced storytelling. Winter's Heart benefits fro...
The Wheel of Time is a long and epic story. Long and epic narratives, for whatever reason (perhaps its the way in which they hint at reality) tend to be my personal favourite types of tales. However, as with book 8, Winter's Heart meanders on slowly and I maintain my stance that the content of books...
Winter's Heart is slightly better than Path of Daggers, but it is still a lot of nothing. The romance between Rand and Elayne, Min, and Avienha is annoying and disturbing. I don't know how anyone could love, even tolerate, Elayne. She is worse than Nynaeve with her severe self-entitlement and over t...
Sometimes I think Robert Jordan got paid by the word. Winter's Heart is so overwritten and has page after page and chapter after chapter of content that does nothing to move the story forward. If you cut the novel in half, it would still be too long for what actually transpired. Nothing of real cons...
A Dominant Story Arc with a Strong Final Chapter, Overcomes Flaws In Winter's Heart, the ninth installment of Robert Jordan's epic series, the author learned the lesson from his previous entry (The Path of Daggers) by having one of the myriad of character arcs from the beginning of the book develo...
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