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4.45 AVERAGE
4.45 AVERAGE
So much of my BOYS in this book, I love it. Perrin, Mat, and Rand carried this one, which is the way it should be imo. Fast-paced for the Wheel of Time, no slow, boring chapters with people I couldn't care less about. Would be 5 stars if the editing job was better... why so many mistakes??
Towers Of Midnight is the penultimate entry in The Wheel Of Time series, and the second book where Brandon Sanderson has continued Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy legacy.
“Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn’t break you when you fell. That’s the important part.”
Sanderson continues the fast pace that he set in The Gathering Storm. We didn’t see much of Rand here, instead a lot of the book focuses on Perrin, and this POV was far more enjoyable now that we are finally finished with the extended Shaido rescue plotline, and his long built up showdown with the Whitecloaks was great to read. But once again Mat was the star of the show for me, especially in the final few chapters inside the Tower of Ghenjei.
“Courage to strengthen. Fire to blind. Music to dazzle. Iron to bind.”
Towers Of Midnight sets us up for what I’m sure is to be a dramatic finale in A Memory Of Light as Tarmon Gaidon has finally arrived, and I cannot wait to see what Jordan and Sanderson have in store for us.
The thing about these last few books is that they can make you suddenly like characters that you couldn't stand throughout the series. Like Galad, he was so ugh through the whole series and thankfully you barely see him in the books - then suddenly, near the end, he grows up a lot and becomes an enjoyable character. Even Faile is less unlikable - not totally likable, but less unlikable at least. And we finally get some meetings and reunions that we've been waiting 10+ books for. Mat with the acorns and badger, for example, was just wonderful. This is not to say that it's all perfect, Egwene gets a bit stupid with her need to argue with Rand. Not that she shouldn't argue with him a little bit I suppose, but it's more her reasons and methods - like most Aes Sedai it seems to come down to the idea that she is Aes Sedai therefore he should obey her. And she just acts like a child about it. So, it's like she went through this great growth arc and then backtracked again. Still, in most cases, the characters are a million times better in this book than in the first 10 or so books.
One more book to go.
Some things did shock me ta my core. The events Avihenda goes through, Thoms decision in the end of the book (wondering how much it was actually forshadowed, as I was quite unsure where that came from), and my general frustration with the Seanchan. There is a seething hate against them, and their blatant disregard for human life and female autonomy, but I suspect that is what they are supposed to represent.
