Book Review – The Shadow Rising
As I mentioned in my review of The Dragon Reborn, the first three books in the Wheel of Time series are bit different in style and scope than the books that follow. At almost four hundred thousand words The Shadow Rising is the first of three most massive books in this series (not counting A Memory of Light, which by all reports promises to be enormous). Where the first three books are relatively self-contained stories, in this book the story branches out in several directions. It is where the book where Jordan’s saga becomes a true epic……
Book Review – The Dragon Reborn
Being the third book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Jordan is still writing at a fast page at this stage, The Dragon Reborn is published only eleven months after The Great Hunt. I have always felt that the first three are somewhat different from the books that follow.
Read my not entirely spoiler free review…
Book Review – Fall of Angels
One of the nice things about Modesitt’s long running Recluce series, there are currently 15 books (and there may be a 16th in 2010) is that once you are familiar with the time line you can more or less reread the books in any order you please. No main character has more than two books and they are usually separated by several generations.
Book Review – The Great Hunt
Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: November 1990 Published only ten months after The Eye of the World this book is the second entry in Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. I always found it hard to pick a favourite but if I had to, it would probably [...]
Book Review – The Eye of the World
Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardback Publication Date: 1990 The Eye of the World is the first book in Jordan’s hugely successful Wheel of Time series. I don’t know of any other book that has gets so many “this book got me into fantasy” comments as this one. This [...]
Book Review – Knife of Dreams
Author: Robert Jordan Publisher: Tor Publishing Date: October 2005 Binding: Hardcover Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet The eleventh book in Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, a series much criticized for unnecessarily dragging the story out. Especially after the last book Crossroads of Twilight, where all progress in the plot seems to grind to a halt. [...]
Book Review – Crossroads of Twilight
Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: January 2003 The tenth book in Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. By this point, even when Jordan stated book twelve would be the final one, many readers have given up on the seemingly never ending series. That didn’t prevent Crossroads of [...]
Book Review – Mage-Guard of Hamor
Author: L.E. Modesitt Jr. Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2008 Since Modesitt writes most of these in pairs I decided to dive straight into the next Recluce novel. The 15th in the overall series and a direct sequel to Natural Ordermage. Like Natural Ordermage Modesitt does not radically change [...]
Book Review – Natural Ordermage
Author: L.E. Modesitt Jr. Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 2008 Natural Ordermage is the 14th novel in Modesitt’s best know series, the Recluce Saga. The Recluce Saga is somewhat unusual because it published well out of chronological order, with the first novel The Magic of Recluce being [...]
Book Review – Winter’s Heart
Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2000 The ninth book in the Wheel of Time series. Where The Path of Daggers was a disappointment to many readers and definitely not my favourite, thing look a little better in Winter’s Heart. I liked this book a lot. It [...]
Book Review – The Path of Daggers
Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Orbit Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 1999 The eight book in the Wheel of Time series. Published in 1998, this book is often mentioned as one of the least favourite among the Wheel of Time fans. By this point both progression in the story and [...]
Book Review – A Crown of Swords
Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 1997 I am enjoying my reread of the later Wheel of Time books, more than I should probably. Because the first five books already had a review on fantasybookspot, I started in the middle of the series. At this [...]
