Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I’m finally done with the Wheel of Time…..

A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth, and even myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the third age by some, an Age yet to come, an age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. there are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it […]

The Wheel of Time: Book 13 (review IX): I’m honestly too tired to string three thoughts together. This is my speed round review!

Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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Years ago, I had a brief but memorable relationship with a woman. It ended fairly amicably. Some years later we reconnected, and I was initially reminded of the good times. All those memories came flooding back, and it was exciting catching up on the years we’d been apart. And then, flushed with the realization that we ended it for a reason, I remembered how little I actually liked her. The wind was completely removed from my sails, and I limped back to safer waters. This […]

I came into this thinking Brandon Sanderson was a master. I underestimated him – the Wheel of Time: Book 12 (review part VIII)

The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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I’m entering a new era in this series, and want to start this review with some thoughts unencumbered by the knowledge of how thinks change. This is the point at which The Wheel of Time turns to the better, according to everyone I’ve ever talked to who has finished it. Following the death of Robert Jordan in 2007, his widow and editor, Harriet McDougal, selected Brandon Sanderson to finish this series based partly on his novel Elantris and partly on a eulogy written by Sanderson […]

I made it through Jordan – Brandon Sanderson is next: The Wheel of Time review (Part VII)

Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan

Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan

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So, I’ve been reading through the Wheel of Time, for those who haven’t been reading these reviews. I started the series in the late ’90s, and kept up with them through the publication of Crossroads of Twilight. When Crossroads came out in 2003, I was in college and had all but stopped reading for pleasure. It wasn’t until about 2009-10 that I started again. By that point, Robert Jordan had died and Brandon Sanderson had taken over the series. It had been almost a decade […]

I’m approaching the end: The Wheel of Time, Book 9 (review part VI)

Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan

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When I first read these books, I think I made it through Crossroads of Twilight (the next book in the series). I bought Knife of Dreams (the last book written by Robert Jordan before his death) and The Gathering Storm (when Brandon Sanderson took over the series), but I never read them. This book came out just before I went off to college, and right around the time I stopped reading for pleasure. I don’t remember the next book at all. So, I’m about to […]

I’ve made a bad decision, but I’m too stubborn to change my mind: The Wheel of Time (Part V)

The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan

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I hated this book. There was nothing in here that was offensive, like using rape as comic relief in A Crown of Swords. But the key plot points in here could’ve easily been interwoven into the last book. In fact, doing so (and trimming quite a bit of the fat) would’ve improved the story considerably. A great deal of this book does absolutely nothing to develop the characters or move the plot forward in any way. If anything, there is a needless addition of numerous […]



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