Awesome review. It’s hard to find WoT content doing deep analysis without spoiling future books.

Just finished the video, you are so smart and cool x) really liked your predictions (not confirming or denying any by saying this) and it is fascinating how you remember so many small details and characters and predictions etc and are able to connect them with the plot. I flewwww through the series and didn't even remember some of the smaller characters and had to think for a few moments to know who I'm even reading about rn 😅 so wow, really impressive!! And it's so funny how you so genuinely say something egregiously mean about Egwene/Elaine and then chuckle yourself x)

Great review as per, thought we might not get a rant in bc of egwene’s small part but glad you shifted it to Elayne 🤣

Awesome review! To me books 8, 9, and 10 seem like one big book. They just kind of all blurr together for me. It's quite slow going but some of my favourite moments in the series happen in them. The series picks up again in book 11 and is an absolute epic ride all the way to the end.

Haven't read this one yet, I'm half way through the Lord of chaos but I'm tickled that you are still making these I thought you were done. Thank! Can wait to watch this in a couple weeks. Your book reviews are the best.

Lots of things to say,. First off, good review and as you said the slog is mainly famous because of the wait between books and the slow development of main plots during those books...Now being able to binge it, it feels actually ok because there is a lot of character development and some very good scenes as well. The rest comes later in the finale when Sanderson picked up the serie. Few things to add but I will try to keep it short: - Perrin, Faile and Berelain... good luck is all i will say :) - Padan Fain is indeed bad ass in this book. Remember he also controlled Machin Shin in the Great Hunt when they tried to use the Ways... - Good point on Rand trying to build up his own self esteem while suffering what we can call PTSD from that terrible time in the box. RJ description of this surely comes from his tours in Vietnam and even if it's not his own reflection, probably from friends of his suffering from it. It just keeps on giving emotion wise. - Being conflicted on Cadsuane... Yeah i think that's probably the consensus for every reader ever :) - Rand getting up after being healed. I'm fairly sure it's Flynn who healed him and he uses the "new method" using all five weaves (same as Nynaeve discovered) and this doesn't make you as powerless as the "usual" method using only 3 weaves. - Good catch on the Ghostbuster crossing the stream of Balefire relevance. RAFO but it is indeed important. - You read correctly, Sammael is indeed killed by Machadar. - Ahhhh Egwene starts to be ok now :) She is my least char close to Nynaeve until that book, then becomes gradually one of my favorite char. Let's see if that happens to you as well :). Well, obviously i don't count Elayne who is still annoying as hell... - Yeah Lan's back :) - Mat is a gem... yes :) - You're right about the whole Tylin/Mat rape situation. It's one of the biggest flaw of the serie that i think everyone with a bit of sense acknowledges. It's usually explained by RJ being an old white dude writing in the 90's. Not a perfect serie obviously... About heroes of the legend reincarnation. Birgitte explicitly says that they are waiting in Tel’aran’rhiod until being reborn, so if you've seen them appearing from the horn of Valere, they are not reborn. May you find water and shade.

I had a similar reaction to this one. Plenty of good content (character development) with a little less action. Still enjoying this series as well.

26:33 .. err.. you nailed it. what did you expect from her?

Yeah right?? I was reading and waiting for the slog and it never came, I was sooo invested through the whole thing x)

im also so happy elayne and nynaeve made such a horrible deal with the seafolk. id like to think it might humble them a bit but i know thats a long shot

I just finished this book. I was worried going into it but it was super solid! your takes on these books are great.

My theory for why Rand is SO hung up on not killing women: the more Lews Therin’s voice pervades his mind, the more guilt he carries about harm to women. After all, LTT killed his beloved Ilyena. I won’t reveal whether this is something that is fact or fiction; it is only a hypothesis I had when I first read through books 5-7 and Lews’ voice became a thing. As you mentioned, Rand killed a woman without remorse in book 3 (before the LTT voice was a thing). Also, I 100% agree with you that Rand has not been winning against Forsaken solo. Even against Asmodean it was pretty much a draw. Lanfear kinda saved him there. I concur with your views on the Mat/Tylin dynamic (could have been portrayed differently to make it less cringeworthy) and the Mat//Birgitte relationship (a beautiful thing).

Much better analysis than those other guys it is indeed tough to find good book reviews on the wheel of time…. What is that accent by the way?

The slog will depend on how plot driven you are. Jordan's got Perrin, Mat, Elayne, Rand, and Egwene already in separate parties. He's not done with the party splits. Four of these have major character moments timed to the same subplot, which means that you have a LOT of middle book stuff that these four have to get through before that other subplot advances enough that most of the four can do interesting things. Ergo if you just want to spend time with CharacterA the slog is great. If you want CharacterA to actually do something that resolves their subplot prior to book 11... On the plus side, Rand has cool shit to do. Everyone gets some cool moments. It's just the story structure for the books is all screwed up because Jordan screwed up the plotting.

This review needed more Egwene slander...

Would you suggest wheel of time for a newer fantasy reader? Also great video!

Min isn’t just rands woman, she’s the good woman.

wait im confused what's the real use of the oath rod ? and how does it effect ones age did i miss something or should i keep reading and it well be explained later. i'm currently on book 9.

Balefire doesnt leave a body, or anything. Its the one thing you cant come back from!

Tylin doesn't rape Mat. Mat could take a knife away from a Gholam. He could outfight Tylin if he really wanted to. She just comes on to Mat super-heavy. Mat thinks she's hot, and he's not opposed to having an affair with her. But her coming on to him and pressuring him makes Mat really uncomfortable.