WoT Book 11: Knife of Dreams

[drothgery]

That was the one event of significance that occured in the book. It also only took like a chapter maybe two at the very end of the novel. I consider that next to nothing in a book the size of Winter's Heart.

The set up for that was all of the Rand/Nynaeve plotline, which is to say about a third of the book.

 

[Xath]

So why Perrin chasing Faile again. I quite at like book 4 or 5 when she was captured. They have been apart longer than they have been together. Its time to move on Perrin get some other girl and be free.

Well, they are married, and I would say that Perrin would be LG.

 

[Rackhir]

The set up for that was all of the Rand/Nynaeve plotline, which is to say about a third of the book.

Not to mention

Spoiler

everything going back to the first book was it? When they first saw the giant Ter'Angreal being dug out?

However much set up there was, the actual events only consumed a chapter or two at the very end of the book. That's pretty much nothing in an 800+ page book by my standards.

 

[iwatt]

Things that will happen:

Mat + Thom + Olver go into the Snake/Foxes Tower and free Moraine.

Mat finally looses his eye.

The Seanchan attack the White Tower and conveniently kill Elaida and about all the black Ajah.


Things that probably won't happen:

Any of the main characters actually trusting somebody or even accepting advice.

About the book: I read the first chapter and part of the prologue. There was some good and some bad. The good was very cool, the bad was rpetitive Aes sedai plotting BS that basically killed the last 3-4 books.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

However much set up there was, the actual events only consumed a chapter or two at the very end of the book. That's pretty much nothing in an 800+ page book by my standards.

Still more than happened in Crossroads of Twilight.

Brad

 

[ssampier]

But, be resurrected by Nynaeve after three days.

really?

I'm behind, since I gave up in Winter's Heart.

 

[ToddSchumacher]

Here is a non-spoilery review of the book:

http://www.dragonmount.com/Books/Knife_of_Dreams/review.php

It actually got me to purchase the prologue and first chapter, and then to re-read all the books. And actually, when read all back to back the last books weren't as bad as I remember.

 

[Volaran]

Here is a non-spoilery review of the book:

http://www.dragonmount.com/Books/Knife_of_Dreams/review.php

It actually got me to purchase the prologue and first chapter, and then to re-read all the books. And actually, when read all back to back the last books weren't as bad as I remember.

I would have to agree. I re-read the series thus far back to back earlier this year, and actually found the later books being more enjoyable than I remembered.

 

[talinthas]

i used to always preface a new jordan book by rereading hte series. unfortunately my books are all in the states now =(
Hopefully i can still get KoD in japan though.

 

[Starman]

really?

I'm behind, since I gave up in Winter's Heart.

I'm away from my books at the moment, so I can't give any exact pages or anything, however...

Rand is definitely a messianic figure. There have been many hints that his fate is to die, but there has also been clues that he will live after the last battle. Jordan is good at "ironic statements," one being that Nynaeve wouldn't be happy until she "healed someone three days dead." Hence, I think Rand will die and Nynaeve will bring him back three days later.