Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan continues series excellence

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	• Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, Book 9) Robert Jordan, 2000 - 625 pages average customer review:based on 1093 reviews view larger image
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My wife insists on reading brand-new hard-cover books. Used books are NOT acceptable to her. To find somebody else's hair, or a crumb of food in a used book would be like finding a dead rat in the cupboard to her. Therefore, when it is possible to get NEW books at 1/3rd the price of the exact same item sold at Barnes & Nobles, it really saves $$$. Although the books are shipped via USPS media mail, she has never had to wait more than a week for a purchased book to arrive.

the wheel of time keeps turning

This is not the best book of the series, but probably not the worst either. Perhaps the worst I've read so far, but still a good book. I say it's the worst so far because (and I apologize if I ruin anything for a new reader, but it happens shortly into the book) the way Jordan has made sex a large part of the story line does nothing for the story, and the way Elaine, Birgette, Min and Avienda are portrade in one chapter of the book- especialy Elaine!- is done in poor taste, with no purpose to the story line, and with no entertainment value. That particular part of the story comes out of no where and just hangs there. You get the feeling Jordan was looking to fill pages and just pulled something out of the air to fill a gap and then went on with the story. And it took up an entire chapter! A chapter that could have been done without. Elaines charactor is way off from what she was when Rand and she first met to the point where it isn't Elaine at all but some street tramp looking for a one night stand. I understand the changes Rand has gone through and some of the changes others have had forced on them due to their circumstances, but Elaine was a proper lady raised to be a queen, not a street urchin who raised herself, not from a culture where sex is simply a physical expression, and not a woman created to be born over and over and live a life filled with adventure, but a life that will ultimatly be cut short. And the way Min and Avienda act towards Birgette is especially poorly written and out of charactor for both of them. It would have been better to leave that chapter out and just continue with the story line as it is. I could also do without Mat's sorted affair with the queen of Abu Dar, but they are a different culture and Jordan never gives you even a glimps of what goes on, just a hint from Mats point of view on how he feels humiliated and used. Far better than the way Elaine's time with Rand is presented.

Other than that, so far the story is progressing well and is up to my expectations based on the rest of the series. I enjoy the way Jordan has built the series in an almost real time fashion, although there are some gaps and jumps in events that leave you wondering what took place in between, but nothing detrimental to the story. I am more than half way finished and finding myself wanting to keep reading at the end of every chapter to find out what happens next.

All in all a good book, an excellent follow up to the last book, well written (with exception to the afore mentioned parts) and well worth the read. I look forward to reading the next installments of the series and especially to the end- to see whether Rand cleanses the one power and survives the last battle or not.

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Great Arrival Time, Condition as Listed

This book arrived around the time I was expecting it to. It was in the same condition as listed: good condition. I am very happy with this book.

Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan continues series excellence

This is the second time I have read the Wheel of Time series through to book 11. I am enjoying each book more the second time because the wait for the next book to be written has been eliminated. Book 9 continues where book 8 left us....Perrin is faced with a challenge deeper than anything he has overcome before. Elayne is fighting for her right to be the next queen, thinking her mother dead. The story unfolds in pure genius with Robert Jordan at the helm.

With the death of Jordan last fall we are left to wait and hope that the new author who has been given the huge undertaking of finishing this amazing series will be up to the task. Up to now, the book is perfection

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Part One Of Two Parts

The ninth in THE WHEEL OF TIME series, WINTER'S HEART begins with Rand on the run with Min. Faile, with the Aiel Maidens, Bain and Chiad, is prisoner of Sevanna's sept. Perrin is hunting desperately for Faile. With Elyas Machera, Berelain, the Prophet, and a very mixed "army" of disparate forces, he is moving through a country rife with bandits and roving Seanchan. The Forsaken are ever more present, and united, and the man called Slayer stalks Tel'aran'rhiod and the wolfdream. In Ebou Dar, the Seanchan princess known as Daughter of the Nine Moons arrives - and Mar, who has been recuperating in the Tarasin Palace, is introduced to her. Will the marriage that has been foretold come about?

"Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal..." (New York Times)

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