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Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, continues his effort to unify the diverse people of a discordant world against the Dark One in this fifth tome of the Wheel of Time series (begun with The Eye of the World ). While the Aes Sedai, women who channel the One Power, and the Forsaken, ancient disciples of the Dark One, strive to bend him to their purposes, Rand leads the clans of the Aiel in a war of unification. Rand must try to master his powers as a man who can channel, while eluding the concomitant madness, as two groups of women attempt to come to his aid. His love, Elayne, Daughter-Heir of Andor, and Nynaeve, both Aes Sedai in training, join a circus to evade an angry sisterhood, and Siuan Sanche, former leader of the Aes Sedai now stripped of her powers, and two companions seek other rebels in an attempt to avert the final doom. Jordan deftly weaves details from previous books into this narrative and includes a glossary so that new readers can pick up the saga at this point. But all should beware: the few months covered here suggest it may be years and many more volumes before this series reaches its conclusion.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, leads his army of desert warriors toward a destined war against the forces of the Dark One. Elsewhere, while the Forsaken seed the land with their plots of corruption, a few stalwart individuals gather their strength for the coming battle. Jordan's epic saga of a world threatened by evil incarnate builds steadily as separate strands of a complex plot begin to come together. Fans of this richly detailed and vividly imagined series will not be disappointed.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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This review is from: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time' (Hardcover)
The Fires of Heaven is Jordan at his most focused so far. For the first time in the series we see actual character development and some shifts in the static dialog between characters. The plot moves effortlessly and seamlessly, and there are suspenseful episodes throughout. There are enough new people and peoples in this book to make Jordan's often depressing obsession with minute irrelevant detail to be interesting, and the story has a sense of movement throughout.
Jordan hasn't so much changed the way he writes in this book, but a convergence of plot factors creates a situation that allows his most annoying proclivities to have an actual purpose in the flow of the plot. The ending of this book is the best of any so far. One can only hope that the series will continue in this vain getting better as it goes. If you have survived the negativities of Jordan's prose to this point, (no doubt carried on by his excellent imagination and the dramatic scope of the series) do your self a favor and read this book, it is better than the four previous, and finally gets this story to fulfill some of its promise.
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Great book!,
This review is from: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time' (Mass Market Paperback)
This was a great book in the series! It had lots of excitement and a lot of stuff happened. This has been a great series so far!
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Incredible adventure.,
This review is from: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time' (Mass Market Paperback)
I loved/enjoyed every moment of it.Story so vividly told as the other previous books. Twists in plots so clever! Character development was extremely pleasant for me, enough to feel loss when some particular minor (or main for this volume) character(s) were killed off the Wheel. A treasure.
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