Severe errors on the part of the author regarding timelining, together with some almost criminally sloppy proof reading detract from a book that does move the plot along.
It will do what it says on the cover, and bring the dedicated reader closer to a resolution in what has become a truly epic saga. However the flaws mentioned above grate and the sloppy editing and obvious set piece scenes give a decidedly fan fiction feel to the book.
If I were to dwell on the flaws, this book could go as low as 3/10 but just for moving the story along and providing the beginnings of a resolution to 20 years of a tale, it creeps up to a 5/10 for me.
It will do what it says on the cover, and bring the dedicated reader closer to a resolution in what has become a truly epic saga. However the flaws mentioned above grate and the sloppy editing and obvious set piece scenes give a decidedly fan fiction feel to the book.
If I were to dwell on the flaws, this book could go as low as 3/10 but just for moving the story along and providing the beginnings of a resolution to 20 years of a tale, it creeps up to a 5/10 for me.
Yes I really didn't like the jumping around in time. Sorry but if I have to think to figure out where things fit in time in a book with this many characters and this much plot that is a problem. Not all of us are like larry and can keep this many characters in our head. This is a saturday morning action show not classic literature.
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- 07/11/2010 04:20:11 PM
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Liked it pretty good
- 07/11/2010 10:34:23 PM
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*NM*
No Spoilers, just a review (Accidentally posted in a thread, supposed to be stand-alone review)
- 13/11/2010 08:41:58 AM
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5/10 *spoliers*
- 08/11/2010 07:54:10 PM
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About not sensing gholam. Nobody sensed him. It's the ability of the thing, I think *NM*
- 08/11/2010 08:03:45 PM
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You wanted MORE of Elayne's political maneuvering ?
- 08/11/2010 11:18:42 PM
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Yes. I personally would've liked all that to be more detailed.
- 09/11/2010 06:11:44 PM
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8/10. Fairly solid plotwise with some great moments but structurally flawed. *NM*
- 10/11/2010 02:46:09 PM
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Moves plot along, however severely flawed.
- 20/11/2010 11:43:39 PM
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Re: Moves plot along, however severely flawed.
- 19/12/2010 05:40:56 AM
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this book made me sad, and not because it's the penultimate chapter
- 30/11/2010 03:27:35 AM
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I'll buy that (mostly 
). Got a good beat and I can dance to it; I give it a 7.
- 01/12/2010 02:32:59 PM
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). Got a good beat and I can dance to it; I give it a 7.
- 01/12/2010 02:32:59 PM
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After a very long break from WoT... I'm back into it and loving it!
- 05/12/2010 03:08:57 AM
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It was ok. Not brilliant but certainly better than a lot of the middle ones.
- 19/12/2010 11:28:32 AM
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Solid but not great continuation of the series, both exciting and flawed
- 05/04/2011 08:34:48 AM
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