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joshua_white 's review for:
The Fires of Heaven
by Robert Jordan
I want to be clear. On the whole this series is tied for my favorite along with Pierce Brown's Red Rising series. I am currently re-reading through it, with my first read being twenty-ish years ago. So, even though I've ready it before much of it feels new.
Maybe I'm wrong, and should lower expectations moving forward, but this book seems to be a low point in the series. It's still good, great even by most standards... but it really takes "men are from Venus, women are from Mars" to whole new heights. It seems that at least three to four times per chapter there is a woman degrading a man, or a man degrading a woman. I'd say it was dabbling in sexism if it wasn't applied in what appears to be equal measure. I'm trying to remember that this book was written in a different time (sheesh, I feel old), but man does it get old.
All that said, there was a lot of important stuff that happened in this book. Even though a certain character is missed throughout, it's nice to see Mat get so much attention. This book really seems like the turning point for his character as he really starts to step into his own.
On to the next!
Maybe I'm wrong, and should lower expectations moving forward, but this book seems to be a low point in the series. It's still good, great even by most standards... but it really takes "men are from Venus, women are from Mars" to whole new heights. It seems that at least three to four times per chapter there is a woman degrading a man, or a man degrading a woman. I'd say it was dabbling in sexism if it wasn't applied in what appears to be equal measure. I'm trying to remember that this book was written in a different time (sheesh, I feel old), but man does it get old.
All that said, there was a lot of important stuff that happened in this book. Even though a certain character is missed throughout, it's nice to see Mat get so much attention. This book really seems like the turning point for his character as he really starts to step into his own.
On to the next!