Reviews and Comments

Done. THAT was a bit of a slog

Klings "Kanguru" ist durchweg großartig. Gesellschaftskritisch, sau lustig, und liest sich flüssig weg. Ich werde mir die anderen 3 Bücher jetzt auch alle (nochmal) reinziehen.

This is a tough one. There's good stuff happening, but in the grand scheme of things, this book feels like 'So we had this big thing happening with Rand and Saidin in the last book, let's catch everyone else up'. Unfortunately, there are pretty literally Zero Climaxes. None. Mat just moves a long his road some, Perrin STILL hunts for Faile, Elayne faffs about with her reach for the crown a bit ... and that's it. There's not even much of a cliffhanger at the end of the book.

So really, it's more of a stopgap for the next book. And that frankly sucks.

I feel like the series really gets much better again with Winter's Heart. Yes, there's still repetitive stuff, when things get described, that have been described every book since #1. That's probably worse if you read the whole lot in one go as I do now.

But thanks to massive story beats around Mat, Elayne and Rand here, arcs get resolved that have been hanging in mid-air for whole books. And it's good, trust me. At least, when seen in the context of the whole series, of course.

While there's still some slog in this book, it's nowhere near as bad as in some if the earlier books. And to balance things out, there is a lot of good stuff happening, a lot if pieces finally clicking into place.

Just that hugely important scene with Egwene and the hall is driving the plot forward a lot (AND it's really good). Same for some the things happening with Rand, the Asha'Man and the Black Tower, big plot beats.

Good read, all things considered.

This went quicker than the others...

Ich hab jetzt nicht das Gefühl, wirklich was mitgenommen zu haben. Es fließen leider sehr wenige Annekdoten aus dem Vater-Sein des Autors in das Buch ein. Da aber außer diesen wenigen Stellen kaum was amüsant ist, bleibt das Buch eher trocken.

Ein Geschenk meines Vaters. Die Beschreibung macht mir nicht eben Lust darauf, das Ding zu lesen, aber ich brauche eine Pause von all den Wheel of Time Wälzern. Also lesen wir die 206 nicht allezu klein beschriebenen Seiten mal weg.

Review kommt noch.

Zwischen Seite 252 und 253 fehlt Inhalt. Das ist grade bei einer zweiten Ausgabe schon sehr ärgerlich.

Long... Lengthy... But boy, that ending. So much energy, so much stuff happening at once, so many threads prepared for the next book.

Ja, Lovecraft schrieb vermutlich selbst für die Zeit in der er lebte eher wirr, umständlich und verquast. Dennoch halte ich diese Übersetzung für wenig gelungen, selbst wenn ihr Ansatz war, den "Geist Lovecrafts" (Harharhar....) zu wahren.

Die Geschichte selbst ist typisch Lovecraft, für Fans seiner Werke (wie ich einer bin) also durchaus lesenswert, woraus letztlich der zweite Stern in meiner Bewertung resultiert.

Yes, Jordan's writing can be a bit lengthy at times - and book 5 is certainly a good example. I'll agree that a lot of what happens with Nynaeve drags on more that it needs. Some tighter editing could have kept the Fires of Heaven closer to 900 pages than what it is. But WHEN he get's into action, few fantasy works pack as much of a punch as WoT does, even in book 5. The way that every book (still!) adds more layers to the world's lore, reveals more stuff that neither reader nor characters knew previously - that's just amazing and I love it.