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bildger 's review for:
The Fires of Heaven
by Robert Jordan
In this fifth book in the series, I am still absolutely loving the journey. The moment I finish one, I immediately look forward to the next.
The only negative (not enough to drop it down to 4 stars) is that the ending seems to follow the same formula. An epic battle with Rand and one of the forsaken, sometimes he wins and sometimes they get away. If this happens for the next 10 books, it is going to get a little irritating. The reason why such an epic battle is so boring is because Rand is just too powerful. Magic in a fantasy is all about limits otherwise they could just skip to the end and win, saving us readers from reading another 10,000 pages of this series. Funnily enough, Rand actually thinks this at one point in this novel.
The other point of irritation is that all of the men grow in power, but most importantly in them selves. They progress and grow as characters. However, it seems that all the women in the series stay the same winging, pouty, annoying little girls that just need a good slap. Maybe Robert Jordan new how to develop a man (being one himself) but couldn't think of how to do it with a woman. This surely must annoy female readers out there.
The only negative (not enough to drop it down to 4 stars) is that the ending seems to follow the same formula. An epic battle with Rand and one of the forsaken, sometimes he wins and sometimes they get away. If this happens for the next 10 books, it is going to get a little irritating. The reason why such an epic battle is so boring is because Rand is just too powerful. Magic in a fantasy is all about limits otherwise they could just skip to the end and win, saving us readers from reading another 10,000 pages of this series. Funnily enough, Rand actually thinks this at one point in this novel.
The other point of irritation is that all of the men grow in power, but most importantly in them selves. They progress and grow as characters. However, it seems that all the women in the series stay the same winging, pouty, annoying little girls that just need a good slap. Maybe Robert Jordan new how to develop a man (being one himself) but couldn't think of how to do it with a woman. This surely must annoy female readers out there.