All of these books are like best friends to me Happy Reading! Mel 🖤🐾🐺

Absolutely brilliant Wheel of Time book and holy crap, I only have one more left.

Buddy read with the Dragonsworn over at BB&B! Book with a place in the title for the MacHalo Reading Challenge.I can't believe this is the second to last book! More than an year has passed since I and a bunch of other people embarked on this epic journey. Along the way we became friends, sharing thoughts, ideas and theories. And now I feel so sad that the end is so near. Part of me wants to hurry up and read the last instalment, to see how it all ends and whether the light will win and who will

It's okay. It's good. I hated it. Here is an awesome scene suggestion for the cover art: Perrin enraged, riding headlong into a horde of Trollocs at night with his eyes and his hammer glowing golden, lightning and fire blasting all around him. What we got instead: three dorks going, “What is triangle?” On the plus side, the cover clearly illustrated a key moment from which the title was drawn. It was an important event, one that Mat and company committed to undertake a mere two and a half books

I read this book on a train ride from St. Pancras to Gatwick, and a flight from there to JFK. 1245 pages. In a 1-hour train ride and a 7-hour flight.It was difficult to read while opening and eating the meals served on the plane, and equally difficult to concentrate while the flight attendant was asking whether I was aware there was a video screen as well (to which I politely replied "Yes, thank you." while really thinking "Go away, I'm reading."), but I prevailed in the end.Wheel of Time review...

Rating: Very GoodGenre: Epic FantasyThis is the 13th book in the Wheel of Time series and is the second book in the trilogy written by Brandon Sanderson. I loved the previous book more than this one. It does not mean that this is bad. It is not at all. The problem in this book is the pacing. The first half felt slow and not much happening while the second half was fast-paced.When it comes to the characters Perrin Aybara has the maximum POV in this book. In the first half, his parts were very slo...

The Ta'veren TavernA one-act play by Zach(The Ta'veren Tavern, a passably nice watering hole with very few patrons. The architecture of the room, indeed of reality itself, seems to bend and warp to center on the three young men, RAND, MAT, and PERRIN, sitting at the bar.)RANDWell, you two have to at least admit that Towers of Midnight is the most action-packed book in the whole series.MATNo question there.PERRINI won't argue the point. You're talking to the guy who spent four consecutive books s...

Penultimate book of Wheel of Time, Sanderson took the things several notch up and tied many of the loose ends in a grand way. How can things be any different? After all, Mr. Sanderson is a master of making everything grand and epic. This series has been epic right from the start, so Sanderson giving it the finishing touch was icing on the cake. Talking about the plot will mean giving away spoilers, so I will just ramble about my favorite characters. This book marks the return of Perrin Aybara as...

Alright, BS! Let’s see whatcha do with the finale 😬

*** 5+ ***A buddy read with my WoT family @ BB&B!!! So close to the end...This was soooooo good! I am left with no words which I have not used before, to praise this series, world, magic, characters, plot, writing, and pure genius of the author and the series creator! I love it so much!!! Anything I attempt to say would only be useless fan-girling, so I am just going to repeat one thing - to all Fantasy fans, you have to read this series!!! It is the one I consider as the standard all other seri...

This 14th WoT book was another fun one. It is so easy to get caught up in the happenings of this familiar world and its massive cast of characters really do feel like old friends by this stage! ToM matched Sanderson's first WoT effort, TGS, in terms of quality. He might do a few things differently from Jordan but the one thing he does deliver is a well paced story that has very few dull spots. The story itself was engaging and interesting as all our favourite characters got themselves and their

Final rating: 3.5 stars.This book has two very different parts which divide it exactly in the middle.The first part: nothing at all happens. Yes, you read it right: the first 50% of the book make Crossroads of Twilight - which is considered the slowest Jordan's book - look like a non-stop action thriller. I just finished reading this one and cannot recall any event of some significance whatsoever.The first chapter returns to POV of a lowly and completely irrelevant farmer who provided a ride to

Wow what a book. So many plot threads get resolved in preparation for the Last Battle. Not as much action as the previous book, but there was a lot of great necessary build-up, and it had several great character moments.Full RTCRatings:-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

If feels like a different series now. The pace is moving at least three times as fast as the later Jordan books. And that's being charitable. Let's face it. There's a about one hundred pages of Crossroads of Twilight where the sum total of the action was that Elayne took a bath. There are seemingly endless stretches where Jordan would devote a page or two to an Aes Sedai raising an eyebrow -- or worse, almost raising an eyebrow.On top of that, the emotional range of the characters has expanded g...

****** Prelude to the actual review and doesn't need to be read before the body of the review ********* : originally reviewed Nov.2010. Updated Dec. 2014. I'm about a third of the way through this book and I've got to say that while there are some wonderful moments, Sanderson is carrying on Jordan's tradition of beating a subject or plot point not only to death but till it falls apart and starts to stink!I am heartily sick to death of Perrin's self flagellation and flat refusal to accept ANY rea...

Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time #13), Robert Jordan, Brandon SandersonThe novel is the second part of A Memory of Light, Robert Jordan's projected final book. Because of the amount of material to cover, it was agreed by Jordan's wife, Tor Books and Brandon Sanderson to break the final book into three separate books. All three books are written by Sanderson with the aid of extensive notes left by the late Jordan. The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling....

January Read With the Fantasy Fanatics of Since I started this series people have asked me if it was worth it. I mean there are a lot of books and they are all in the 750-1150 page range. This series is no small undertaking an in the middle when I was reading books 7-10 I really wondered if it was worth it. The worldbuilding is fantastic and complex but it really didn’t seem like anything was happening at all. But then we hit books 11, 12 and now 13 and I can say without a doubt that unless

So I am drawing ever nearer to the final book of Wheel of Time, which is both baffling and exciting to me. I have been reading these books for such a long time and I have to say that the Sanderson book have certainly made the series sit up and get going again rather than meander around as the Jordan ones did. I love both Jordan and Sanderson as writers, and I am so happy that Sanderson was the one chosen to finish this off because he's incredible when it comes to bringing all of the plotlines ba...

Shortly before the end, and while the first enemy forces' attacks have already begun, our heroes sort out their last accounts before giving everything to the war against the Dark One. Those who have accepted their leadership role, defeating their doubts, assume their responsibilities and open the way, defying all disagreements. In other cases, it seems that the best way is to understand and accept the help that others want to offer. Nevertheless, it is certain that circumstances require bold, ri...

I am enjoying this series so much now that I am racing through them. This is the penultimate book in the Wheel of Time and it is excellent. All of the characters are starting to come together for the Last Battle and they are all developing into rational thinking beings at last. This is no small thing as some of them have been quite unbearable in earlier books. (Actually Elayne still is painful but there is hope for her yet.) Brandon Sanderson has done an excellent job here of taking over the wri...