![]() And soon, reading became maddening because the same attitudes that rubbed me the wrong way during the second book persisted three books later. “Men and women don’t get along,” he said again. ![]() “Men and women don’t get along,” he told me. ![]() At a certain point, probably about a book ago, Jordan’s repetition stopped being helpful. But there can be too much of a good thing - even drinking water can be fatal. There’s certainly an argument to be made that Jordan repeats certain concepts and attitudes because he finds them important and doesn’t want readers to forget them. Of course, repetition itself isn’t a bad thing. What are those flaws that broke the camel’s back, you ask? The problem is that when you force the camel to walk with a broken back, every step is excruciating. Its flaws aren’t huge, but they end up feeling that way - The Fires of Heaven isn’t a wrecking ball, it’s the straw that broke the camel’s back. That said, I find it hard to write off The Fires of Heaven as “objectively” terrible. ![]() I won’t mince words here: I straight-up hated reading this. ![]() In my review of the fourth book in Robert Jordan’s extraordinarily long The Wheel of Time series, I said that the next entry, Fires of Heaven, would essentially make or break my interest in continuing this series.Īlmost a year later, I’m here to say that, unfortunately, it’s broken it. The full art of the original English edition, illustrated by Darrell K. ![]()
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