Khorod
First Post
No Plot. No sub-plot. No Character Development.
No climax. (Okay, there was a climax I think. its associated with a barely explained event and is the only mystery in the whole book.)
Half the book was new/tertiary characters. It felt like *every* character Jordan had made needed to be visited to remind us they existed, and to clarify what they are up to. Meanwhile, other characters inexplicably move around and solve mysteries they shouldn't know.
And the main characters just get dumber, and dumber...
The book seems to span a couple months- midwinter to the beginning of spring. And every chapter read like the prelude to another book.
When I say no plot, I mean essentially NOTHING of any importance to ANY plot happened. An entire chapter was spent on Mat flirting with his Daughter of the Nine Moons.
And EVERY woman in the story needed a two-paragraph discussion on appearance, mental state, reputation, and mannerisms. It goes far beyond arms folded under the breasts.
Jordan has created a drug here... I had to read it even though I already know he's lost whatever he might have had.
He really should have made one series of epic scope, and various other short stories and trilogies to visit all these side-characters. I mean, there's depth to the world, but this is ridiculous. This guy HAS to make this series last, he's gone from booming popularity to an increasing joke, he'll never make it big with another series unless its really popular in the supermarkets and drugstores...
Thanks for listening, just had to scream about that all a little bit more, having renewed my disgust.
SPOILERS
And while Winter's Heart ended with a boom of activity that undermined one of the series' awesome mysteries with a casual smack, this one ends with every faction/character firmly deciding to make a truce or alliance with someone else. Way to go with the cliffhangers.
No climax. (Okay, there was a climax I think. its associated with a barely explained event and is the only mystery in the whole book.)
Half the book was new/tertiary characters. It felt like *every* character Jordan had made needed to be visited to remind us they existed, and to clarify what they are up to. Meanwhile, other characters inexplicably move around and solve mysteries they shouldn't know.
And the main characters just get dumber, and dumber...
The book seems to span a couple months- midwinter to the beginning of spring. And every chapter read like the prelude to another book.
When I say no plot, I mean essentially NOTHING of any importance to ANY plot happened. An entire chapter was spent on Mat flirting with his Daughter of the Nine Moons.
And EVERY woman in the story needed a two-paragraph discussion on appearance, mental state, reputation, and mannerisms. It goes far beyond arms folded under the breasts.
Jordan has created a drug here... I had to read it even though I already know he's lost whatever he might have had.
He really should have made one series of epic scope, and various other short stories and trilogies to visit all these side-characters. I mean, there's depth to the world, but this is ridiculous. This guy HAS to make this series last, he's gone from booming popularity to an increasing joke, he'll never make it big with another series unless its really popular in the supermarkets and drugstores...
Thanks for listening, just had to scream about that all a little bit more, having renewed my disgust.
SPOILERS
And while Winter's Heart ended with a boom of activity that undermined one of the series' awesome mysteries with a casual smack, this one ends with every faction/character firmly deciding to make a truce or alliance with someone else. Way to go with the cliffhangers.
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