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The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

29 reviews

mardana's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Again, keeping the readers on edge. I enjoyed it, even though many passages where a bit hard to bear. 


I would have liked some more Moiraine chapters. 

Not a huge fan of the „the main character has all the pretty women swooning over him“-trope. It is more of a thing I would expect in a harem manga…

Also, why is Matt always so dense? It feels like is main roll is to be underestimated until he deus ex machina swoops in and saves the day and suddenly everyone is happy they kept him along, despite his annoying persona. 

I liked the whole sul‘dam/damane lore and the twist it had.
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dani_reis's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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mattiedancer's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Writing: 3.5⭐️/5 
Jordan has a vision for this novel, but this vision feels like it’s a bit surrounded by repetitive phrases and scenes. The writing itself is serviceable. It gets the job done, and is easy to read when it needs to be. But the overall impression of the writing is a bit unsubstantial. Apart from a few moments of truly good writing, the novel doesn’t shine in its prose. That being said, it also isn’t held back by its prose. It’s served by its prose: nothing more, nothing less.

Characters: 3.25⭐️/5
*Some Spoilers*
Where the first book truly drew me into the characters, this book offered a number of reasons to question their characterization. Min, for one, has a moment that seems completely out of character for her. Not to mention a lack of any growth towards many of the characters we grew to love in the first book. Plus, and I can’t emphasize this enough, we have the fridging of a minor character solely for the purpose of advancing Thom’s plot, which I must (and truly do) consider a cardinal writing sin. If I’m being honest, the only character who retained growth from my perspective was Nynaeve. 

Plot: 3.25⭐️/5 
I feel the plot of this book will be entirely necessary to the plot of the series. And yet, it left me with the same taste in my mouth as a filler episode of a sitcom. Much of the plot felt pulled at – lengthened where it wasn’t necessary – and padded with fluff. The truly adventurous or intriguing parts of the plot were quickly (and sometimes far too easily) resolved in order to advance the next section. Of course, all that being said, it’s not an unenjoyable read at all and did keep my interest, whether deserved or not. 

Who Should Read This Book? 
  • Those who read book one of The Wheel of Time (The Eye of the World)

Content Warnings? 
  • Slavery, confinement, kidnapping, toxic relationships, toxic friendships, blood, gore, torture, abuse, child death, war, misogyny, sexism, death, murder, injury, injury detail, fire, emotional abuse, gaslighting, 

Post-Reading Rating:  4.5⭐️/5
As much as parts of this book IRRITATED ME (hi, Rand), I am very excited to start the third one.

Final Rating: 3.25⭐️/5
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wogslandwriter's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional 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? No

4.0

I love Matt Cauthon so much. 
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nadiaherondale's review against another edition

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

4.0

Certainly an improvement in pace and interest for me. I'm glad things are picking up as I can actually enjoy what is a well written and thought world (that was obvious on the first one but all the introduction and the slow pace made it way too hard for me to enjoy it). Although I still feel like the climax of both the first and second books led to rushed endings
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annick's review against another edition

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adventurous slow-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

Rosamund pike is an excellent narrator. But the book is such a mess. Systemic misogyny by the authors writing and characterisation. And such reductive statements that can’t just be down to the immaturity of the main characters. 
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leighskarz90's review against another edition

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adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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pagesonfire's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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bluejay21's review

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

3.75

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josiah17's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

Great read. It had a very Sanderlanche-esque ending which was awesome. There's also some really solid character development here, particularly with Rand. The worldbuilding is also once again fantastic. I'm really digging Jordan's ability to set the scene. His writing style is really easy to follow and it's effective. I can see the connections and inspirations from his work to Sanderson's writing. The magic system also really shines in here. It becomes much easier to understand and visualize. I was sort of lost in Eye of The World when it came to the magic and how it was used. 

This book was also DARK! There's some pretty disturbing stuff in here. It might not be interpreted that way by everyone, but it was tough to read some scenes in here.

Now something that really didn't work for me in this book was the romantic (if you want to call it that) subplot going on. Or the attempt at one. It's just not working for me. There were some moments when the romance was brought up in awful moments and just took me out of the story. I really hope it's resolved soon.

Besides that, I liked most of the book. I'm very happy I decided to jump into the Wheel of Time. 
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