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morganv10 's review for:
The Fires of Heaven
by Robert Jordan
Best book of the series so far, by far.
None of the plotlines dragged, and I was thrilled reading the whole way through. Surprisingly enough, the only part I really disliked was the ending, a stark reversal of the previous few books. Jordan has not handled the Forsaken particularly well, killing them off indiscriminately without much character development. I doubt Lanfear and Moiraine are really dead, and will probably show up later after an encounter with the fae beyond the doorway, but Rahvin dies without Rand exchanging a single word with him, despite being built up as one of the endgame villains, and Asmodean, one of the more interesting characters in the book, was killed off out of nowhere without any explanation whatsoever. This was a great book up until the last couple chapters, but I'm quite ready to take an extended break from the Wheel of Time before reading book six.
None of the plotlines dragged, and I was thrilled reading the whole way through. Surprisingly enough, the only part I really disliked was the ending, a stark reversal of the previous few books. Jordan has not handled the Forsaken particularly well, killing them off indiscriminately without much character development. I doubt Lanfear and Moiraine are really dead, and will probably show up later after an encounter with the fae beyond the doorway, but Rahvin dies without Rand exchanging a single word with him, despite being built up as one of the endgame villains, and Asmodean, one of the more interesting characters in the book, was killed off out of nowhere without any explanation whatsoever. This was a great book up until the last couple chapters, but I'm quite ready to take an extended break from the Wheel of Time before reading book six.