Yaaaa I thought this would be a sammael book also, I was so confused when Rand told Mat to go to Salidar

I'm here for your little anti-Gawyn rant 😂 Welcome to the club!

The character development for Rand and the other main characters is one of my favorite parts of WoT. Regarding the Chosen, I never thought of the Death Eaters from Harry Potter (😆), but that might be because I’m older, and WoT started about seven years before Harry Potter did. They basically have the same function, though - scary but somehow incompetent villains. Great review!

When Rand thought that he could outsmart the Aes Sedai my brain was like "Honey, you have a big storm coming." Lol Egwene and Gawin (can't remember how to write his name lol) just pretty much came out of nowhere. RJ keep mentioning that Egwene was all about Galad, so It came as a shock when it just wasn't the couple. I realized the change when she happen to comment that she dreamed more about him that Galad. I was like wait... What? I remember back in book 4 I believe it was when Faile insisted to go with Perrin in the ways and he didn't. She started to behave in a certain way and it felt to me like she was edging him to behave in a certain way. When he ends up hitting her she calmed down. And that was super weird to me. Books 6 clarified that in the sense that Faile's mother told Perrin how she started to straight up respect his partner when he went physical with her. I connected all the dots in my head and well that's so weird. Faile rubs me the wrong way now. She forced her culture on him, I mean if you dislike his passive attitude go marry a Saeldean be done with it.

My favorite part of the book was Perrin telling the wolves that Rand was in trouble. It made the wolf name for him click in my mind. Back in the Great Hunt I just assumed they were impressed by what he did to get the horn and dagger back. But Shadow Killer doesn't mean a man who kills in the dark, it means THE man who kills THE capital 'S' Shadow. The wolves know he is the chosen one, and he can't do what he must if he is in a cage. Matt joining Nynaeve, Elayne and company on an adventure had so much potential. But they just spent the whole journey being ass holes to each other. And then they get to the city and the girls start avoiding Matt all together. I hated how pointless all that ended up being besides setting up the next book I guess. But the rest of the book was pretty good imo. Egwaene and Gawyn wasn't so out of the blue for me. They got to know each over a couple months "off screen" when she was a novice at the White Tower. It was clear to me for several books that Gawyn liked her a lot but didn't act on it because Gallard did too. Egwaene falling in love because of the dream is a little odd, but I buy it. I just didn't understand why she didn't tell him that she was literally in the room when Rand found out his mom was dead. That the only reason Rand went to Andor was to avenge her and secure the lion throne for Elayne. Gawyn hating Rand over a false rumor is dumb.

What ive thought about healing stilling or gentling is that women have to heal men and men have to heal women for them to completely recover.

I hope the TV show does the Battle of Dumai's Wells justice.

Great review. Thanks! This book totally assassinated Gawyn's character. Regardless of his idiocy towards Rand, he continued to follow the Aes Sedai even after they tortured Min. Then he has the audacity to ask Min to leave with him and threaten Rand? Total d-bag. He should have died in that battle. Plot armor saved him. Virtually every relationship in this series is bad, but Egwene's sudden love for Gawyn is among the most ludicrous. They were together literally for 2 pages and we were 4000 pages into the series at that point. Is anyone smart enough to ask why Rand would kill Morgase? Why would Rahvin even? Morgase is obviously still alive. We agree on most everything but not on Min/Rand. Her reunion with him was one of the best scenes in the book. It is SO refreshing to see a man and a woman actually act like they are glad to see each other. Rarely happens in this series. Her attempt to get Rand to see her as more than a friend in the build-up to the kidnapping is one of my favorite parts in the entire series. She is the best female character in the series, and Rand totally needs a woman who doesn't channel. Their relationship is one of the few good ones in the series. Aviendha was all passion and Elayne was insta-love. Min was a true friend first. Egwene is too perfect. She always does the right thing. Should have chosen Galad. Her as an 18 year old Amyrlin is a lot to stomach. There are Aes Sedai that are over a hundred years old, and they are following a teenager? Come on. Somewhat slow book with a fantastic ending.

8:50 the apparent contradiction you pointed out between dying in Tel'aran'rhiod vs not being able to affect the real world from there is an interesting point, I never actually noticed that. But now that you bring it up, I think the clarification is simply that when you are in T'a'r, a part of you is actually there and so can be affected there. Inanimate objects you interact with there are not the thing itself but a reflection of it, and you can't affect a thing through its reflection.

So far you're pretty on point with your pronunciations; I say them the same way. Love that you mentioned Rand meeting the Two Rivers girls in the inn (especially Mat's sister Bode!) It was a great juxtaposition of where he came from and how far he's come. Rand is technically descended from House Mantear, through Tigraine. He and Galad are half-brothers, and you should know all that by the end of LoC. I agree with you about how awesome Egwene is. The Old Blood sings in her as well as it does in Mat or Perrin, and Mat, Nynaeve and Elayne are into some fun times in Ebou Dar. Now that you mention it, the Forsaken are kind of ding-dongs sometimes. Like, they're all evil, but they go down kind of easy sometimes. Mat, Olver, and the Band are great. And Dumai's Wells is a real high point of the series - I think if you go back and watch some of the big battle scenes from Apocalypse Now or We Were Soldiers, you'll get an idea of what Dumai's Wells was like. Glad you're coming back around and giving it 5 stars. It definitely deserves it! It's been a year or so since I last read LoC so it's a little fuzzy, but I dug your chronological format more. Other highlights of the book for me were: The rooster joke Mangin's hanging (mainly just because I was noticing him more ahead of time) Rand setting up the academies to establish a legacy of peace and not just destruction. Herid Fel and the steamwagon. Perrin meeting his in-laws for the first time. Claudia Black is my head canon Deira Bashere. Olver with his game of Snakes and Foxes was always good, though just to head off speculation, he's not Gaidal Cain reborn.

I’m your fan now! Such a good video to watch and realize that I struggled with the same

You're nearly halfway there! 😁👏 I'm just hanging out for Midnight Tides though 😜

"Don't get Gawyn and Egwene". I think that applies to every single piece of Romance in this book. Every love story is like Boom! You're in love now... How did it happen? Don't ask questions!

So interesting how much different people's opinions vary on things. For me, it was always the Rand/Elayne relationship I didn't buy. I loved Rand/Min. I'll be interested to see if your opinion on that changes over the rest of the series.

You are certainly not alone in having lots of questions, I have a friend reading through for the first time too, and we have a group chat with other WoT nerds specifically to answer his questions and get his reactions. Always fun seeing someone reading for the first time!

Google has spoiled too much to my liking because I can’t remember all these similar sounding names. I found the companion app @ book 7 and it’s awesome.

I had no idea there was an app!!! Thank you!!! I SO needed that!!!

I'm right there with you on both the name pronunciations and the dream hopping. I didn't hear a name pronounced by another person until I started watching people like you about a year ago. When I started reading these there were just 5 or six books out, so I've been mispronouncing a lot of these names for many years. I don't know if I'll ever be able to use the correct pronunciations. As to the dream hopping, I would have loved it if Jordan had never thought up that waste of words.

There are hints about who Halima is that’s all I’ll say

It’s true nothing you do in the World of Dreams affects the physical world, with the one exception being your body. This is because you bring a bit of your physical body with you when you visit, whereas everything else there is a mere reflection.

Even though there are some good parts in the book I didn't enjoy it but I did enjoyed the ending I will be continuing with the series

The bubble of evil is not new. We saw that for first time in book 4, remember when Matt's card came to life to attack him. Also as far as Tagrain by know there is enough clues to see that she was Rand's mother and that Luc (from book 4) is her brother (Rand 's uncle)

Lol, no, you are so not alone in the Egwene Gawyn rubbish - it's the one leave pass RJ gets lol.

Dude I love how much you're loving Rand ay - he is 100 percent one of the best ever fella protags in history :-)

I liked this format going thru chronological. I’m not a big fan of battles but I have to say that one gave me chills.

Up to the taking and am resting before the tension. Second read and man can't wait for the bloodshed.

The greatest villains in this book were the Aes Sedai

The boys constantly saying the others are better with women always cracks me up.

Yea, I'm a few books further than you and I feel like the Forsaken are clowns. But I'm thinking that that is intentional? Like maybe they are stooges to get to the DR which is maybe who the Dark One really needs?

Be forewarned that in 7-9 (except the end of 9) nothing really happens. Oh and for Malazan make sure you read Night of Knives by Ian Cameron Esslemont after Midnight Tides and before Bonehunters, Erikson wrote his 10 while leaving in gaps for Esslemont’s books, so things will make more sense if you read his concurrently. They’re different, but they’re a good change of pace for the Malazan world when Erikson starts to get pretty philosophical towards the end, Esslemont always keeps things moving. In the below URL you can scroll down to bottom it has the fans suggested reading order which was really good for my first time through, the only thing I disagree with is the random placing of the KB and Bauchelain novellas, I liked reading them all in a row malazan.fandom.com/wiki/Suggested_reading_order

Halima is Arangar, one of the Forsaken reborn in the prologue (the other was Osangar), don’t worry it’s not a spoiler because she says it in this book talking to Delana Sedai 😂 maybe you just missed it

I didn't have the adverse reaction to Gawyn at the beginning of the series that everyone else seems to have. I get that he's a bit bland but what exactly makes you hate him at that point? I totally agree he and Eugene is a completely forced romance out of the blue, they have like nothing in common. But at that point in the series Gawyn was more of a "meh I don't really care" character and not so much a "I can't stand this guy" character. Interested to hear anyone's take on this.

Hi great book review..... I’ve got to still Robert Jordan book 3 dragon reborn.... happy reading to u!!!! 😊📖

Love your videos!

I took a class on Zoroastrianism at college. IIRC the Prof (this was like '03) said the religion was based on the theory that in the beginning there was one divine being who was alone. Then he met someone. An asshole. The whole point of creation is to destroy the asshole. The devil's armies will always be greater, but they will spend so much of their time feuding amongst themselves that the Lord of Light will emerge victorious. Always reminded me of the Forsaken. So some of the Forsaken are truly worthy opponents who surprise both you and the heroes up until TG. But most of them are over-rated mooks and spend more time sabotaging each-other than fighting their enemies. On Gawyn: There is an in-universe explanation. Getting sucked into someone's ream is supposed to be bad. Perhaps of you get sucked into someone's dream because they love (or hate) you you you inherit that emotion? Most people think that's weak and just think RJ screwed this up, and go on hating Gawyn. But it is an explanation and it does exist. On Faile: keep in mind the PoV character. Perin knows she's jealous but he never bothers to ask her why. Her rival has an Aes Sedai helping with her hair, a maid even on campaign, etc. That means that Faile could be jealous of Berelain's magical hair, or her fashionable dress, or that lancers have pretty lacquered armor, or how the woman sashays. Perrin just assumes she's worried that Perrin will sleep around, without asking, and deals with this by telling her that she shouldn't be jealous. Which means it's entirely possible that if he just ignored the jealous smell nothing would come of it. But we never find out, because Perrin is too clueless to figure out that he's part of the problem. IIRC he does this in front of the woman who is specifically trying to make her jealous, which means the rational human conclusion for both of them is that Perrin is about two sashays away from leaving Faile. And he also never tells either one of them that the reason he knows Faile is jealous is he can smell emotions. The endings are great for you newbies. I had to wait 30 months for the next book. One of the reasons the prologues got so long is they would be marketing for the next book. Starting 8ish they were released online a few months before the book.

I'm on my first read through and currently halfway of book 11 . Every prologue is boring in the next books until 11...book 7 is nice and book 9. Book 8 and 10 are slow but small...book 11 starts the convergence.

4.5 sounds better than 4 to me too. I remember this book being my fav out of the ones written by Jordan. Rand getting abducted and then the Asha'man swoop in and blow shit up. Was cool to get some big action scenes. Book 5 was a bit boring to me and this book as a nice pay off. I disliked Gawyn almost as much as I disliked Galad. I love the scene early in the series where Mat beats them both simultaneously in a sparring match using his quarterstaff. Whatever format you use for spoiler reviews works for me. More important to me is that you've chosen to do these kinda videos for WoT and Malazan. I had to shazam your outro music. I like it! It's got this like Rise Against vibe.

Just found your channel. Little disappointed you don't have videos past book 10. Did u finish the series?

I also laugh and love when Mat meets the super girls in Salidar. I find Min ok, but Gawyn and Faile both suck at this point. Halima???? It was explained (but maybe not too clearly) in the last part of the Prologue. Halima (a woman) channels Saidin, so she is Arangar (renamed male Forsaken) recast in a female body.

I think Faile gets a bad rap in this book from the fandom. We see her scenes through Perrin's POV with his super-human emotion sniffing nose. I am not a Faile fan, but she has been accused without actually doing anything. Just something to consider. Great review!

Yay, Wheel of Time!

Lava lamp min,, lol

I love the cute intro art!

New structure is very good

Wts the tattoo on ur arm say ?

About telaranrhiod: living things can be affected in the real world, but inanimate objects can't.

Can you do a video explaining garden of the moon by erikson im confused

We all agree Matt is our favorite character. I do agree Min-Rand relationship feels forced since the beginning. I guess we all hate White Cloaks in general as well?

Hey, look! A Gawyn part! *slam my head to the desk*

Is Robert Jordan books really good to read?

Felt like you flipped the story. Most of the book dragged for me until the last 25 percent and that got a few minutes at the end. Also Perrin talking to the wolves is one of the most epic parts in the entire series. We come. Chills.

I love your reactions to this book lol

Samael knew rand won't accept the truce and actually didn't want rand to accept the truce because he wants to actually fight and kill him but he was commanded to do so he just half assed it purposefully... It makes sense more than how you make it sound even if this book to me is one of the worst wheel of time book which is saying a lot... But you aren't saying anything about Matt suddenly getting the sudden case of the stupid around the girls, even more stupid than jordan normally makes him around the girls or other MCs to make him subjugated and susceptible to listen to their commands (because god forbid anything can be just requested from him like he's an human being on their level) and move the plot along... I hate when writers disrespect their characters like that and make them stupid or meek just to subdue them and jordan does this a lot and always out of the blue and jarringly clumsily like how he subdued moraine for rand using that method and nanyeve for egwene and alayne... If you can't write fluid and believable subjugation based on the logical exchange of characters using their personalities, then you should know that you've gotten something wrong with what you're trying to do with that character... And it's not as if he didn't have enough space to do so considering how much time he wasted on his stupid dumb japanese anime immature irritating love conversation of he loves me he loves me not filler that he seems to love and drown his books overwhelming with without even considering the tone or the pace of where he places them in...

I finished Lord Of Chaos just recently and yeah, +1 ugh at Min and Rand bits, Min was introduced initially as a strong character who was supposedly happy and comfortable with herself avoiding femininity standards only to become a fawning woman all over this man, and whoops ta'veren, can't be helped, shrug shrug I'm going to be sooo cuuute now and wear tight-fitting embroidered pink breeches! Yikes. But I'll see where this will go, still many books to see how it all evolves (or devolves)!