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Title: The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, Book 3) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0-8125-1371-1 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 15 October, 1992 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (212 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Dragon Reborn - A Bestseller, or Too Long to Enjoy?
Comment: The Dragon Reborn really is a good book. Now, lots of people would be discoraged with this book, due to the fact that it's HUGE! Some have commented that the book needs a better editor. Now in past books, Robert's done some of that too. It's huge, but it's all neccary. I think Tolken is master of reduntant things, although Jordan can do some odd things. (In the Eye of the World, he screws around with time so bad my sense of the book was mangled!) Of course, this shouldn't discorage you. There are great FAQs, and the Guide book "The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time", which is amazingly helpful. Further more, the details are wonderful. The characters clash, and it gets pretty annoying at times, but they're in character. The only qualms I have about this book, and the whole series, is that as the books go by, Rand, Egwene, and Nyvane all get slowly meaner. Nyvane and Egwene have very good reasons, which you'll have to read about, but even if Rand is in character, he's awful! And he just gets worse. Other than that, the chracters are great, the story is great, the setting is wonderful. Read this, or I'll send the forsaken out after you!
Rating: 5
Summary: BEST in the Series. Did Jordan peak too soon?
Comment: I Promise: I'm going to be spoiler free.
This is the third and BEST book in the Wheel of Time (WOT) series. All of the tenants of excellent fantasy are there. Jordan is a great writer who builds an incredible world with a compelling history. In this book, Jordan gets the balance of history, character, exposition and action right.
Dragon Reborn is a treasure, but be warned: as of this writing Jordan hasn't finished WOT. By the end of this book, the series stands on its head and you are riding through this series at a great clip. You cannot WAIT to find out what happens next, so you HAVE to continue.
My guess is the end of this series isn't going to happen until 2006 (I believe there are going to be 12 books, but I don't think there's an official word).
Is it going to be worth it? I don't think so. WOT has gotten very complicated and is becoming turgid. Sometime around Book 6, the action began to crawl. Book 8 (the last one I read) was almost 700 pages and took place over three days!
I've read the first five books twice now beacuse it is too difficult to wait a year between reading books. (And he's coming out with them once every other year at this point).
My advice: Wait until Jordan's finished them all. It's best to read them one after another. By then we'll know if it was worth the wait.
You've been warned!
My grade for the series:
1. Wheel of Time: A-
2. Great Hunt: A
3. Dragon Reborn: A+
4. Shadow Rising: A+
5. Fires of Heaven: A
6. Lord of Chaos: B
7. Crown of Swords: C+
8. Path of Daggars: C
9. Winter's Heart (haven't read, waiting for Jordon to finish)
Rating: 5
Summary: It still goes on strong.
Comment: The author has kept the story going on strong without any signs of losing the plot's focus, which I believe is the number one priority to an on going series.
I am glad he hadn't allowed himself to get sidetracked into any other priorities that concerns with this book and this series so far.
With each main character's changing plots and events, the main story still goes on with more twists and uncertainty as the reader learns more about the unsolved and unanswered mysteries.
What's more interesting is the way each characters develope, in main contrast to how they were before.
Definitely a pleasant ride with new dangers that hadn't shown itselves before, and the continuation of the telling of the Prophecies of the Dragon.
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Title: The Fires of Heaven : Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time' by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812550307 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 15 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812511816 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 15 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Lord of Chaos (The Wheel of Time, Book 6) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812513754 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 15 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time, Book 7) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812550285 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 15 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, Book 8) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812550293 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 15 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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