Four-star review of The
Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
This world is fascinating,
including the history, but the characters not so much. I like the way Perrin’s
character has developed, but Mat is usually just a cipher and Rand is becoming
annoying. As for the women, each one is inconsistent. I still like a few of the
less major characters including Loial and Thom. This book was long and bogged
down in parts. It was the least enjoyable of the series so far. With the
characters spread out all over the map, this seemed like several different
stories that jumped from one to another every few chapters. I lost track of
most of the minor characters. It showed me how not to do a novel with
several storylines and groups of characters. I still want to see how all this
plays out, but there are so many more books in the series, and most are about
as long. I probably won’t read another for a while, making it more difficult to
remember who the cast of thousands are.
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