Book 28 of 2022
May. 16th, 2022 04:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vivdunstanI’ve just finished The Dragon Reborn, the third in Robert Jordan’s 14-book Wheel of Time series.
I’m not going to go into the plot in detail. But in a nutshell it’s epic fantasy, largely quest based, with a recurring set of characters, that grows as time moves on. A timeless battle of good versus evil, on a massive but also personal scale.
This latest installment saw new places visited and old ones revisited, and also loads of political machinations. There are also many more nods to the bigger arc-long story, either in the form of straight out prophecies, or glimpsed in magical in-between worlds, or both! I really like these sections of the books. It definitely helps me appreciate each book as part of a bigger whole, and want to read the rest.
The one downside for me was that there were just too many boat journeys, including at the same time, which I found confusing in the end! I also need to look at a fictional map ...
But otherwise a riveting read. And a very thrilling ending.
I’ll be reading book 4 in the near future.
Rating a strong 4/5.
I’m not going to go into the plot in detail. But in a nutshell it’s epic fantasy, largely quest based, with a recurring set of characters, that grows as time moves on. A timeless battle of good versus evil, on a massive but also personal scale.
This latest installment saw new places visited and old ones revisited, and also loads of political machinations. There are also many more nods to the bigger arc-long story, either in the form of straight out prophecies, or glimpsed in magical in-between worlds, or both! I really like these sections of the books. It definitely helps me appreciate each book as part of a bigger whole, and want to read the rest.
The one downside for me was that there were just too many boat journeys, including at the same time, which I found confusing in the end! I also need to look at a fictional map ...
But otherwise a riveting read. And a very thrilling ending.
I’ll be reading book 4 in the near future.
Rating a strong 4/5.