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A review by everysproutingtree
The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
4.0
Let's be clear: This book is basically a history and textbook geography textbook for a fantasy world. I fucking LOVE that. Dive me into the history of the wars between ancient kings and queens any day. I am going to immediately need something like this for Middle Earth, the Cosmere, Nirn, the Avatar universe, and other great fantasy worlds. This isn't everybody's cup of tea, obviously, but I can't get enough of this kind of thing. I am the type of guy that reads fan wiki pages for hours on end, and to have similar material in a big official book on my shelf is a dream come true.
But (and it's a big ol' but)... the art in here is so bad. So utterly, frighteningly bad. Thom Merrilin should be looking jovial or sarcastic, but with a bit of pain behind his eyes. Here, he looks like he wants to eat my skin. I get that trying to nail the Aes Sedai agelessness is challenging, but my god they barely look like functional human beings. Well, have the time they are barely functional human beings anyway. but not in their appearance! Geez, the art is so bad it takes an entire star away from the rating. Hell I almost want to rate it 3 stars purely from Nightmare Cannibal Thom.
But (and it's a big ol' but)... the art in here is so bad. So utterly, frighteningly bad. Thom Merrilin should be looking jovial or sarcastic, but with a bit of pain behind his eyes. Here, he looks like he wants to eat my skin. I get that trying to nail the Aes Sedai agelessness is challenging, but my god they barely look like functional human beings. Well, have the time they are barely functional human beings anyway. but not in their appearance! Geez, the art is so bad it takes an entire star away from the rating. Hell I almost want to rate it 3 stars purely from Nightmare Cannibal Thom.