Blurb: Rand, with Min, is on the run, and Cadsuane, in Carhien, is trying to figure out where he is headed.
Mazrim Taim, the leader of the Black Tower, is revealed to be a liar. Faile, with her companions, is a prisoner of Sevanna's Sept.
With Elyas Machera, Berelain, the Prophet, and an "army" of disparate forces, Perrin is moving through country rife with bandits and roving Seanchan.
In Ebou Dar, the Seanchan princess known as Daughter of the Nine Moons arrives. In Tar Valon, the schemers and counter-schemers in Elaida's White Tower are shaken to the core when the rebels appear suddenly outside the walls.
I give it 2 stars
My Review: This is an epic fantasy novel with a richly detailed and intricate world. Unfortunately, the focus on the world itself and it's many sects and religions and races, completely drowned out the characters and the story.
To begin with, this book is like reading three or four different books at once. It would have been much better had the author chosen one storyline to follow. Also, there are new characters being introduced almost every other chapter, so I couldn't connect to any of them or care what happened to them.
I lost the thread of the story somewhere along the way and I'm not entirely sure what the book was all about. Maybe it's my own fault for picking up #9 in a series when I haven't read the earlier books.
There is certainly a beautiful and fascinating world here and many characters I might have liked to know better. And maybe even several good stories. But the book as a whole was entirely too complex for my tastes.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Winters-Heart-Wheel-Robert-Jordan-ebook/dp/B003H3IOKU/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383762861&sr=1-1&keywords=winter%27s+heart+robert+jordan
Kyra, you are right. To enjoy the book you had to have read the 9 preceding books (yes 9. there is a prequel) This is by far my favorite series of all time and I have read it 4 times over the years as the latest book came out. The plot is intricately and masterfully woven over the entire 15 books so you had to have read them in order to understand what was going on.
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