I was starting to become very disappointed with the Wheel of Time series after reading The Great Hunt and The Dragon Reborn, both of which I rated 3 stars. While I was enjoying Robert Jordan’s story, I found his books in desperate need of editing and his characters in need of depth. But The Shadow … [Read more…]
I read this book on the heels of finishing The Great Hunt and was rewarded with further disappointment. In fact, after finishing The Dragon Reborn I had to take a break from the series and read a few other books before returning to this story. Perhaps waiting a year or two as the books came … [Read more…]
I read this book immediately after finishing tEoTW and was seriously disappointed. I didn’t have any issues with the writing itself, but the story, the plotting, and the characters almost made me quit the series. Character Regression The characters were all very annoying in Book One, but began to progress at the end of the … [Read more…]
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will … [Read more…]
Last fall Amazon announced that they gave a series order to an adaptation of The Wheel of Time. This series is rumored to begin filming in Prague in September of this year, so, if things go well, we may see the series available in 2021 on Amazon. What We Know We know that the first … [Read more…]
Game of Thrones has come to a visually stunning, but substantively unsatisfying end. After a decade of warnings that, “Winter is Coming,” Winter came… and was over… in one episode. All the build up, all the human remains arranged in weird spirals, all the character development… just over, in a logically incoherent way. But before … [Read more…]