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A Crown of Swords | Rating | |
| B | |||
| Robert Jordan | |||
| Series | Related Books | ||
| The Wheel of Time | The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, New Spring, The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, The Shadow Rising, The Fires of Heaven, Lord of Chaos, A Crown of Thorns, The Path of Daggers, Winter's Heart, Crossroads of Twilight, Knife of Dreams | ||
As I've said before, many people complain that this series moves too slowly. To me, that means that not much happens. But on rereading these books with an eye out for exactly that, I think I know what the real problem is. It is not that the books are too slow. No, the problem, if it can be called that, is that Jordan just continues to heap layer on layer of plot complication. It's not that nothing happens, it's that he has so much happening that spreading his time between them makes any one thread move slowly. The book as a whole, however, moves well enough.
Once again, the first half of this book is taken up mostly be manuevering of forces, rather than clashes and confrontations. There's several storylines going, now, not all of them following the three ta'veren. It is some good information and political manuevering, but by and large the important events happen in the second half. Egwene struggles to consolodate her power as the Amyrlyn in exile while prodding her followers north, while Elaida's plans start to seriously derail thanks to the last book's climax and the Black Ajah. Mat, Elayne, and Nynaeve continue to search Ebou Dar for the Bowl of the Winds, which can fix the wretched weather, but they are not the only ones looking, and the bowl is not all they find. And Rand tries to figure out what to do with the Aes Sedai from Dumai's Wells, and the Aiel, and Sammael, and...
No, it is far too simplistic to say nothing happens in this book.
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