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Hey up

Just wanted somewhere to pop my thoughts on this series as I go through it. I do aim to eventually read the whole thing though I may be taking breaks throughout.

I'm 50% through book 2 (The Great Hunt) and while I am enjoying the world RJ created, some annoyances are sticking out a little bit that I can't quite ignore...

So firstly I really hate Nynaeve. She is so very 1 dimensional and it's beginning to annoy me. Like all she is is anger and it's very tiresome. Constantly going "I'm only going to learn so I can become powerful to take Moraine down for what she did to us!" is just so dumb.

Like has she not seen enough now to know a) Moraine is not the source of the problems, and maybe a lot of what Moraine has said and done is for a good reason? It's just frustrating reading her sections.

I was getting very annoyed with Rand as well, but the scenes where he is slowly becoming a better fighter and stuff are sort of mollifying that, though he's stilly a whiny little git.

Also I accidentally spoilered myself about who Selene actual is whoops haha

We'll see how I feel at the end of this, but it's certainly not the potential masterpiece that many claim it to be, at least to my mind...

I started it today. Only about half an hour in and initially I was like "oh no a kid" but actually he's pretty cool. I like the older dude too, whoever he is.

I'm glad to be back in this world and encouraged by reading that it's mostly in the Empire in this book.