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A review by willowbiblio
Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
2.0
"People frequently continued to go on as they had been after all purpose in it had been lost."
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I liked this one slightly better than the last installment, but still skimmed the majority of the book. Jordan has a bad habit of filling up several pages consecutively with descriptions that add nothing to the narrative experience. Usually you can skip them and miss nothing, which shows how wasteful they are.
This had slightly more movement than the last book, but it once again only began in the last hundred pages or so. Prior to that it was all build, misogyny, women sniffing, Rand brooding/talking to Lews Therin, and Aes Sedai being assholes.
The sequence describing Egwene's first two weeks back in the White Tower were probably the best part of the whole book. Some of the plots, like that regarding Mazrim Taim, have been building for so long that it's not entertaining anymore. Rand's odd blindness regarding him is not very believable.
It was extremely strange for Jordan to throw in the capture of Semirhage. His writing regarding the Dark One and the Forsaken has gotten really lazy and difficult to follow. Hopefully that improves in the upcoming books that are co-authored with Brandon Sanderson. Also- Moiraine coming back from certain death? Another lazy plot mechanic.
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I liked this one slightly better than the last installment, but still skimmed the majority of the book. Jordan has a bad habit of filling up several pages consecutively with descriptions that add nothing to the narrative experience. Usually you can skip them and miss nothing, which shows how wasteful they are.
This had slightly more movement than the last book, but it once again only began in the last hundred pages or so. Prior to that it was all build, misogyny, women sniffing, Rand brooding/talking to Lews Therin, and Aes Sedai being assholes.
The sequence describing Egwene's first two weeks back in the White Tower were probably the best part of the whole book. Some of the plots, like that regarding Mazrim Taim, have been building for so long that it's not entertaining anymore. Rand's odd blindness regarding him is not very believable.
It was extremely strange for Jordan to throw in the capture of Semirhage. His writing regarding the Dark One and the Forsaken has gotten really lazy and difficult to follow. Hopefully that improves in the upcoming books that are co-authored with Brandon Sanderson. Also- Moiraine coming back from certain death? Another lazy plot mechanic.