Yesterday, my wonderful wife asked me if I wanted to go to the bookstore. Of course, being the ultra nerd that I am, I said yes within the heartbeat that followed and my eyes lit up at the thought that I was finally going to get The Gathering Storm (Book 12 of the Wheel of Time Series)!
Why was I so excited about this? I’ve been waiting for this to come out and those who have read the series before me were probably waiting on it a lot longer than I had.
Suffice it to say that majority of people were pretty iffy about the idea of getting it, because Brandon Sanderson was going to be finishing the book, which was started by Robert Jordan. I was a little concerned, but mainly I just wanted to be able to get to the end of the series so I could see who won in the end and if Rand dies or manages to evade death by almost dying or coming back or something!
Note : I do love this book so far, so don’t think I’m dissing it just yet!
So I began reading the book this morning and within the first 3 pages…I was mortified. I couldn’t believe just how much I didn’t like the way it was written! It was written in fragments and more than likely would rate low on the Flesch scale…But it seemed a lot like an author that couldn’t keep up with Robert Jordan, who put a great deal of detail in his work. Now maybe this wasn’t Brandon’s part, maybe it was Robert’s part and he just wasn’t feeling it that day (but since he’s dead, he obviously couldn’t go back and rewrite that bit, so I can’t really have a fit about that), but then it suddenly moved into regular Robert Jordan style and became that detailed story I became infatuated with, so it’s probably more like Brandon isn’t the greatest to have written that first bit.
I reserve my final decision of this book until I’m done, I’ll be updating what I think about it, as I go. So far, I’m actually enjoying the story, it feels like we’re finally starting to get to the nitty-gritty. We’re in the borderlands where even farmers and blacksmiths are joining the cause against the Dark Lord and the Forsaken are on the move and the Trollocs are ambushing people and Rand didn’t make them give back the Damane!…And I’m only about 20 pages in out of 770ish…
WOO
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