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Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)
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Eon ♒Windrunner♒ 's review
Sep 05, 2016
Read 3 times. Last read January 2, 2024 to January 28, 2024.
2024 Reread - It's amazing how much things can change. Here we are and I'm much less tolerant now of the endless descriptions of clothes and hundreds and hundreds of names that I was somehow supposed to remember, not to mention the weirder stuff like naked rituals and the three wives plot-line. The pacing of this book is a disaster and I honestly found myself holding out just to read about a very small number of events. And they were truly about 5% of this book.
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The official BB&B read of Book IX of the epic WoT series just got Mission Accomplished like a BOSS!
Ok, ok. It was a reread for me, but still. This series aint for for the fainthearted in the page count department. Also, with close to a 1000 pages a book there is a lot of meandering and only a little sprinting. I have paperbacks. Actual count is 11916 pages. Or 4,410,036 words. And the characters… You REALLY have to keep track. Piece of cake you say? Hmmm. This book alone mentions 602 character names. SIX. HUNDRED. AND. TWO! No they are not all main characters, but with a large and complex story such as this one, many of them matter. One might be mentioned once in the first book, and then again in the sixth book and still have an important role to play in the tenth book! So yeah. You really have to be into it. This is book numero nueve though, and luckily I am into it. Well, I guess I would have given up long since if I wasn’t. Anyway. Moving on.
Even though this is a BIG book, there were only a few major things that happened in this one. But some of them have been a loooooooong time coming. We have actual movement people. The plot, she goeth in the right direction! And in a big way. More on that shortly. As I mentioned twice already, this is book nine and reviews are a bit hectic in such a big series. So without further adieu, I give you, (drum roll…………..)
The spoilery highlight summary!
(view spoiler)
And that’s that as far as I am concerned.
It was great overall. It did drag in some parts, but the highlights mentioned did the job.
Four and a quarter stars.
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The official BB&B read of Book IX of the epic WoT series just got Mission Accomplished like a BOSS!
Ok, ok. It was a reread for me, but still. This series aint for for the fainthearted in the page count department. Also, with close to a 1000 pages a book there is a lot of meandering and only a little sprinting. I have paperbacks. Actual count is 11916 pages. Or 4,410,036 words. And the characters… You REALLY have to keep track. Piece of cake you say? Hmmm. This book alone mentions 602 character names. SIX. HUNDRED. AND. TWO! No they are not all main characters, but with a large and complex story such as this one, many of them matter. One might be mentioned once in the first book, and then again in the sixth book and still have an important role to play in the tenth book! So yeah. You really have to be into it. This is book numero nueve though, and luckily I am into it. Well, I guess I would have given up long since if I wasn’t. Anyway. Moving on.
Even though this is a BIG book, there were only a few major things that happened in this one. But some of them have been a loooooooong time coming. We have actual movement people. The plot, she goeth in the right direction! And in a big way. More on that shortly. As I mentioned twice already, this is book nine and reviews are a bit hectic in such a big series. So without further adieu, I give you, (drum roll…………..)
The spoilery highlight summary!
(view spoiler)
And that’s that as far as I am concerned.
It was great overall. It did drag in some parts, but the highlights mentioned did the job.
Four and a quarter stars.
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"Grumbling under his breath, he hitched his cloak around him and prepared to make his way to the stables through the downpour. He had had just about all he could take of women tonight.
“So you are intending to leave. I cannot allow that, Toy. ” With an oath, he spun on his heel and found himself facing Tuon, her dark face stern behind her long transparent veil."
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“So you are intending to leave. I cannot allow that, Toy. ” With an oath, he spun on his heel and found himself facing Tuon, her dark face stern behind her long transparent veil."
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""You madman! It’s death by slow torture to lay hands on the Daughter of the Nine Moons!” The two sul’dam gasped, and knelt without hesitation, not only pulling the two Aes Sedai down with them but gripping the a’dam right at the collar to force their faces to the floor. Mat grunted as though Tuon had just kicked him square in the belly. He felt as if she had. The Daughter of the Nine Moons."
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Oct 04, 2016 10:05PM
Lovely review, Eon! I think we are all going with shorter than usual reviews after so many pages and characters - we need a bit of a rest:-)
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Choko wrote: "Lovely review, Eon! I think we are all going with shorter than usual reviews after so many pages and characters - we need a bit of a rest:-)"Thank you Choko! Yes, definitely.
I skipped this book entirely and only read the ending, which is of course one of the most important events in the whole series.
TS wrote: "I skipped this book entirely and only read the ending, which is of course one of the most important events in the whole series."Lol, well that should keep you pretty much up to date TS. As you can see above, there were only a few notable events.
I loved the summary. Spot on and without any unnecessary parts :)
Maria wrote: "I loved the summary. Spot on and without any unnecessary parts :)"Thank you Maria :)
Joanita wrote: "Great review, Eon :-)"Thank you Jo :D
Only 5 more books to go!
Yes! Of which 3 are Sanderson/Jordan! :D
Eon ♒Windrunner♒ wrote: "TS wrote: "I skipped this book entirely and only read the ending, which is of course one of the most important events in the whole series."Lol, well that should keep you pretty much up to date TS..."
Hahaha yes, and I relied on the Tor.com Reread of WoT. Basically I read up to Crown of Swords, the Reread threads for the rest and continued with The Gathering Storm.
TS wrote: "Eon ♒Windrunner♒ wrote: "TS wrote: "I skipped this book entirely and only read the ending, which is of course one of the most important events in the whole series."Lol, well that should keep you ..."
Smart! ;)
there's a reason this is the book that made me quit the series!
