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This is the 7th book in the gargantuan Wheel of Time epic fantasy series, which has 14 main books, and a prequel book too. I am aiming to read the lot, and have been reading them intermittently since late 2021. I'm reading them in between other books, which lets me pace myself, and get over any reading slumps from it.

This 7th book was a book of two halves. The opening was full of character but relatively little plot, but I really enjoyed the first third to 40%. Then it switched to a different location and hit a terribly long holding pattern. There could have been more interesting things happening in that section, but it just saw a number of the core characters circle around things for hundreds of pages, making virtually no progress. The end of the book saw more action again, which was a perk up. But I was glad when it finished. The great bits I'd rate 4/5 but the not good bits 2/5. Which gives it - and this is rather generous - 3/5 overall. However I'm still very much enjoying the larger story, happy to be immersed in the world, and determined to know through the novels (e.g. not reading plot summaries on Wikipedia) what happens by the very end. I do expect more of a downturn in the coming novels. But I am now a bit over halfway through by pages and words (the full saga is about 11,000 pages or >4 million words long). So progress!

Date: 2023-08-18 10:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] watervole
I keep debating whether to try Wheel of Time. I have it as an ebook, but my concentration ability is low at present, and there are so many other books...

Date: 2023-08-18 09:10 pm (UTC)
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Can individual books work as a standalone?

Date: 2023-08-19 08:29 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] watervole
Ah...

I'm not sure I dare start it in that case. My health crashes at intervals and I can't always focus mentally enough for a book. Leads to large reading gaps now and then.

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