Reviews

The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan

agnewjacob120's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

zak_dunstone's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

axi_on's review against another edition

4.0

it may have taken 5 books, but i finally fell for rand. how he dealt with the cairhienin instantly got me, and i was screaming when he and moiraine had a heart to heart and got their dynamic in a workable, if precarious position. i love moiraine so much and respect the hell out of her commitment to getting as much of the world as possible through tarmon gai'don, and i am so glad rand is finally listening to her to use daes dae'mar on the annoying ass nobility. i also love how he is now practically king of half the world but has not let the power get to his head and is solely focused on standing on business. he swiftly shuts down the nobles anytime they want to talk about anything but locking in for tarmon gai'don, and is finally starting to deal with the not killing woman thing

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(the part with the far dareis mai was the only point he bothered me like they are not untrained 12 year olds give them their honor. not killing lanfear too but it's ok i know my goat moiraine is alive and well and got that shit under wraps)

i really enjoyed the ending sequence too, but i don't know if i loved the implications of using balefire. i'm giving this book the benefit of the doubt that it just has not been explained well as it's still early in the series, but i have a lot of issues with balefire erasing time bc when it was done with

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rahvin nothing was truly impacted besides, conveniently, mat, avienda, and asmodean (but not for long rip) getting resurrected.

mat continues to grow on me with every installment as well. i love love love reluctant heros and loved every one of his chapters. great hunt me would never believe this, but he is probably my favorite character

on the opposite end of the spectrum, and i am loathe to admit it, are egwene, elayne, and *sniffs* nynaeve. egwene is my absolute least favorite character and is getting on my nerves bad. like congrats you're a dreamwalker. everyone else you know is also ridiculously op i'm sorry like you are not cool enough for this complex you've developed to always be talking down on everything and everyone and huffing and puffing over everything. she's been on a downward spiral the last few books i fear so this wasn't that surprising for me. elayne i don't actually have a problem with, just feel like jordan did not develop her well at all, which is insane bc we're 5000 pages in at this point. like genuinely what does she do besides be in love with rand. i don't dislike them being together but her obsession with him does not need to come up every chapter she's in. they barely spent time together but he is quite literally her entire life. the only time he wasn't (and he was the driving force behind that anyways so it doesn't really count) was for the thom thing (which i hated even more). lastly, and this one hurts to admit, is nynaeve. she's always been one of my favorites, but this book was just incessant complaining and braid pulling and skirt smoothing. where is my queen from tsr???

on that note, we can take a good 200 pages out of this if we removed every time a man says it’s impossible to understand women and a woman said how wool headed every man is. i’m so tired

some random other things i enjoyed
- birgitte!! everything about her. i cannot wait to spend more time with her in the future
- really like bryne as well. getting heart broken by a queen then going straight to command an army against the white tower iktr. also him and siuan definitely get together right. might be the only good romance in this series i love them both
- there are dragons??? omg

calebgales's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

rahels_library's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

jtolar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

dnll's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

silvermarine's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

_n_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

squirrels_and_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0