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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retros_x" data-source="post: 9837857" data-attributes="member: 7033171">I started WoT #3 - it feels like the prose is more refined suddenly, it feels somehow elevated, but maybe I am imaging because I read a few other books inbetween. I find it also interesting that there is a little reintroduction of the characters in the first chapters, book #2 didn't had this. There is also a very small time jump and we see now Rand from Perrins perspective, who isolates himself because he can't cope with the reverance he retrieves by soldiers who want to follow him. I thought it was a cool perspective shift.However i am already a bit annoyed by the lack of communication between the characters. I understand that Jordan wanted to emphasize the miscommunication during large scale wars and conflicts especially in a fantasy world. But for gods sake:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Moiraine tells the others that the 3 main charactes are in danger and the Dark One has some sort of supernatural assassins?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Perrin and the others COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLE freak out a bit and want to know what to expect of these assassins</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Moiraine shuts the conversation "enough of that" and everybody accepts it "oh thats just how she is"</li> </ul>wtf. You can't tell the heroes there are some supernatural assassins on their way and than decide to not tell them more. Whatever reasons she might have in the narrative, its clear the reason Jordan had: He wanted to tease the threat of the assassins, but he still wants the character and readers to be surprised by them and their abilities. I can understand this goal, but the implementation is just lazy writing to me.Its interesting that Brandon Sanderson is a big WoT-fan and ended up finishing the book series, because I share a lot of the criticsm for both authors (although up until know I think Jordan is much better). Sanderson is also a slave to the plot and "this needed to happen, so I wrote lazy and bad stuff before that, so the cool stuff can happen later"-syndrome (name for the syndrome is still pending).</blockquote>

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