It's extremely lengthy, and there's plenty of trite dialog, which while perhaps is realistic, doesn't make for fantastic reading.  There's only so many times you can read about women scolding men, and men joking among themselves about women, before you start groaning out loud while reading the book.  Come on Jordan, you've used the phrase "Box your ears" approximately 932 times in one book, don't you think that's a little extreme?

This book continues the tradition of having a bazillion different characters, each with their own separate plot lines, but nothing much happens up until the last 200 pages, where it really starts to get interesting.

Rand has almost the entirety of the Aiel nation supporting him, with the exception of a rogue faction which denounces him as an outsider.  It's up to Rand and Mat to stop them from their rampage of destruction, and along the way they fight a forsaken, a powerful evil-dude, too.  Just for fun, I guess. (nothing wrong with that!)

In other news, there is dissention among the White Tower, the elite home of women magic-users.  It's satisfying to read them bickering and fighting among themselves, because man, are they ever annoying.  I hope Rand kicks their asses just for the heck of it in a later book~!

I've recently started reading book six, and so far, it seems to be one of the best of the series yet, so fans of the series are going to have to tough this one out, I think ;b

Rating 5.0/10 stars

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