Author : Robert Jordan
Description : Jordan makes a conscious decision to not only continue to bring in more details, more background, and nation-size quantities of characters with more plotlines than the typical entire novel, but actually ties up and wraps up many of them sufficiently by the end of the book that it frees your imagination to visualize the directions of the characters long after you read it. The sheer momentum of world class intrigue, nations with distinct cultures clashing in contradiction to their own best interests, major players from the past scheming to establish control of the present world in their own unique ways and with character flaws and quirks that consistently work to undermine their efforts; it all makes sense and becomes truly a fulfilling universe to visit after this volume.
The politics of the White Tower begin to take on a life of their own, with Min feeling the brunt of some of it and with her own special gift revealing more than a handful of nuggets you expect to see come up in later volumes. The techniques Jordan uses to describe the nuances of each character and relationship not only begin to develop their own feel, but make every move and every frustration that much more realistic and enjoyable. The characters are believable precisely because they screw up, people misunderstand, funny things happen that seem almost corny taken out of context but are more realistic because of it.
Rand has to go through his trial of temptation in the desert - with writing as 'dry' as the arid land, but you just know it has to be that way...then it explodes into multiple new revelations about much of what it to come. and then Moiraine shows up. Elayne and Nynaeve develop a mutual respect during their adventure in Tanchico, and Nynaeve seems poised to be the one that may take down a particular Forsaken.
Every great war leader of natural ability still needs a history of developing the skills that will serve him later, and Perrin is no exception. Jordan begins this journey with some well-written skirmishes in Emond's Field, and portrays the struggles with his acceptance of this role and trying to understand his new wife Faile absolutely brilliantly.
One head's-up; although most of the major storylines begun in this volume are resolved in this volume, the characters are only understood well through the context developed in the first three, and many of the sub-plots and scenery are carried directly - as expected - from the previous one which left an especially large volume of activity that carries right through the end of this one.
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