Reviews with content warning for Slavery - The Great Hunt

This second book was a lot easier for me to get through. I suppose now that I was more familiar with the characters and the world it was a lot easier to be invested. I actually felt myself growing more attached to the major characters, then I did in the first book. Likely because not everything revolved around Rand in this book. One thing that did stay the same was the ending being incredible.
Update 20/10/2021
I'm going to down the star rating from 5 to 4.5 now that it has been processing in my head for a bit. The reason is that everything that happened towards the end in Falme felt way too easy.

Like I'm very happy that we didn't see much of Egwene's life as a damane, because I don't know if I could handle more of it. It could also take a way the impact due to repetition. But her being freed and the taking of the horn and the dagger was just all a little too easy. Especially Rand's fight with the swordmaster, he should be dead after that.

Something positive that I would like to mention about the series is the way Robert Jordan foreshadows things. The way he can make all of us have the same view of someone eventhough the characters view them very differently

like Selene/Lanfear

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adventurous mysterious 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

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maiagaia's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No

3.5

The Great Hunt is such an improvement on The Eye of the World. Since Rand is probably my least favorite of the main cast, spending less time in his head was a big plus for me. I don't dislike him, but I find the other characters more compelling.

Nynaeve is the best character in this series. I love her and all her bitchy stubbornness. Egwene has such a wonderful and heartbreaking plot that solidly moved her out of the "love interest" archetype. The time we spent with them in this book was my absolute favorite.

Perrin continues to be my favorite of the boys, and Matt had more glimmers here of some interesting depths and possibilities in the future.

I missed having Moraine around, but when we did get her POV, her and Lan had some great interactions. Speaking of Lan, god, I love him.

Now for some negatives:
I get that Rand is a young guy (like 19-ish?) But he is a grade A idiot when it comes to a particular woman that he needs to trust for plot reasons. It makes no logical sense, especially since he's already seen that women can be Darkfriends. But I give it a little lee way because he's supposed to be thinking with his dick. It's still annoying though.
Continuing with Rand, there's an entire plot having to do with polictical maneuvering that is totally contrived and nonsensical. Not terrible, but definitely worth skimming through because it doesn't add much but takes up a lot of pages.
Min Min Min Min. She went from an interesting, enigmatic character to a lovesick puppy out of nowhere. I don't care about prophecy; she shouldn't have such a sudden about face. That was truly some of the worst writing I've seen for a woman in a long time.

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a_robin_reads's review against another edition

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adventurous tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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One of my owned books

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As good as the first book. Not super excited to continue.

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Review previously placed on my blog:

I'm currently reading The great hunt by Robert Jordan. This is the second book in the Wheel of time series.

I have the same feelings as I had with the first book. Maybe less enthousiastic, because I'm dreading the probably long dragging part in the middle. But we shall see, maybe I will like it more then the first book.

Not really picking this up right now. I don't know if I want to read that long of a book with the same kind of story as the first one to be honest. Don't know, we shall see.

I did still like this book, but it took me very long to read. I'm going to try and read them quicker, that will help. I did enjoy the story and the characters. The thing in this book I find the most annoying is that there are three women in love with the main character. Three! Come on. And maybe even a fourth. I hope that will become less annoying in the next book. Overall still a good book I think and I gave it 4 stars.

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noah_hinds's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

After The Eye of the World I was unsure how I would feel about this one. I had heard that the story would pick up around the third to fifth book, however this one started opening more to exploring the magic, world and characters giving what felt as a more solid promise for the series as a whole. Where the first felt too much like the Fellowship of the Rings in its pacing, this The Great Hunt started solid and swept me along. The only drawback was the pacing slowed down in couple of places and there was a couple of conveniences given to bring the characters back to the plot.

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raeannht's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Looking back, not much was happening for solid chunks of the book, but I was never bored. And it ended with a bang! It was also much easier to keep the characters straight in this one. I'm loving my experience with this series.

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inka_z's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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