A HUGE improvement over TPOD for me.
First off..MAT! BIG GIANT AWESOME CHAPTERS avec Mat!
Sorry....lol
Okay.
The good:
Enter Tuon, fabled, prophesied, shaved head, Mat's future wife, Daughter Of The Nine Moons..and she's cool. She's not crazy cool, just kind of cool. The revelation scene where the other Seanchan realize he's basically nabbed her was pretty hilarious.
Perrin's chapters aren't as bad as they could be and overall he didn't annoy like he's been doing of late.
Rand is still crazy as shit, but now he's added his 3 sexed up ladies. Bonding to all three of them eh? Sigh. Rand. You're dreaming if you think this is gonna work.
Elayne....wowzers, that was kinda...slutty of her. Not in a bad way, in a...that's kinda hot how she asked for help getting her dress off, way.
Nynaeve! Yay, she continues to impress me everytime she's onscreen. Loves it!
Rand killing off most of the traitorous Asha'man, which was something I was glad to finally be cleared up.
The Bad:
Faile's chapters, while not horrible, did still kind of grate on me.
There were a few long chapters that seemed mostly filler.
Anything to do with the Sea Folk. I don't care. I hate the Sea Folk.
I am still not gonna buy this way that Jordan keeps trying to tell me that the Seanchan slavery thing is not so bad and even through that chapter with Tuon where it almost feels as if there is an attempt at justification (or it's not so bad). I am fully aware that the point is to make the Seanchan seem less bad in lieu of the Dark One and Forsaken ect...but still.
The AWESOME:
Hands down, best scene in the whole damned book. Lan and Rand escaping and Lan slipping. When Lan says to let him go and Rand says "When the sun turns green"....man, Rand earned A LOT of brownie point for that. Such heroics! LOVED it.
Also, Cleansing saidin! Whoa. That's pretty damn cool, and something I was under the impression would not happen. Not that I didn't see it coming....but that I felt Jordan enjoyed his whole "The male half drives you insane if you use it" thing too much to let it go away. Colour me pleased though as it's a nice turn of events.
That's pretty much it for this one. Much more meat in this one, thought there was still filler. Enjoyed though.
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Now, onto the book that everyone deems is the worst time-waster of the bunch.
*must fight urge to have Illy tell me the big plot development so I can skip it*