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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4947963" data-attributes="member: 22424">I really enjoyed the first two books in this series. The third one is rather weaker (there was a long real-time gap between them, and it seems the author has somewhat lost the plot in between-times). Hopefully, the series will end on a high note with book #4 (soon).If you haven't started it, I would strongly advise staying away. The series starts okay, then gets really, really good from books 2-5 or so. Having read that far, I was in the position where I really needed to stick with it to see how it ends...Unfortunately, from book 7 or 8, the author seems to badly lose focus, and the whole thing starts to drift. There's at least one 1,000 page volume in which the most exciting thing to happen is &quot;Elayne drinks a cup of tea&quot;! (No, really.)It's mostly the &quot;Wheel of Time&quot; that has soured me on the &quot;whole giant sprawling fantasy epic&quot; thing. Well, that and the &quot;Sword of Truth&quot; series by Terry Goodkind, and the constant delays in &quot;A Song of Ice and Fire&quot; (which also seems to be spinning beyong the control of the author). Now, I won't start a series until the end is at least in sight, and generally favour trilogies and stand-alone novels. Frankly, there are very few stories that require more words to tell than &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; that are really worth the telling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 4947963, member: 22424"] I really enjoyed the first two books in this series. The third one is rather weaker (there was a long real-time gap between them, and it seems the author has somewhat lost the plot in between-times). Hopefully, the series will end on a high note with book #4 (soon). If you haven't started it, I would strongly advise staying away. The series starts okay, then gets really, really good from books 2-5 or so. Having read that far, I was in the position where I really needed to stick with it to see how it ends... Unfortunately, from book 7 or 8, the author seems to badly lose focus, and the whole thing starts to drift. There's at least one 1,000 page volume in which the most exciting thing to happen is "Elayne drinks a cup of tea"! (No, really.) It's mostly the "Wheel of Time" that has soured me on the "whole giant sprawling fantasy epic" thing. Well, that and the "Sword of Truth" series by Terry Goodkind, and the constant delays in "A Song of Ice and Fire" (which also seems to be spinning beyong the control of the author). Now, I won't start a series until the end is at least in sight, and generally favour trilogies and stand-alone novels. Frankly, there are very few stories that require more words to tell than "Lord of the Rings" that are really worth the telling. [/QUOTE]

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