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The Summer Tree The Wandering Fire The Darkest Road Imagine: at a wizard’s request, you leave your life in Toronto to visit Fionavar — the “first of all worlds.” Your mission: to help the...

https://bewilderedcreatures.com/2016/08/19/the-fionavar-tapestry-by-guy-gavriel-kay/

Naomi Novrik’s Uprooted is a fantasy novel that, sadly, feels a bit more like a too-familiar fairy tale. Agnieszka is the surprise pick of the wizard called “Dragon.” Every ten years, he wh...

https://bewilderedcreatures.com/2016/06/06/uprooted-by-naomi-novik/

Winter’s Heart is book nine in Robert Jordan’s plodding Wheel of Time series. Mat Cauthon finally reappears from beneath the rubble pile that toppled him back at the end of book seven — onl...

https://bewilderedcreatures.com/2015/09/04/winters-heart-by-robert-jordan/

The Path of Daggers — book eight of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series — revolves around rebellion and mystery. The rebel Aes Sedai, led by Egwene al’Vere clinging perilously to her Amy...

https://bewilderedcreatures.com/2015/05/04/the-path-of-daggers-by-robert-jordan/

Book seven of the Wheel of Time series under my belt, seven more to go. As usual, nothing really happens until the last 20% of the book. Jordan wastes words telling us all about setting and cloth...

https://bewilderedcreatures.com/2015/03/07/a-crown-of-sword-by-robert-jordan/

Lord of Chaos is book six of The Wheel of Time series. Mired in bloviated description, it plods for 986 pages only to end in a rushed battle scene and a confusing epilogue that begs more question...

https://bewilderedcreatures.com/2015/01/03/the-lord-of-chaos-by-robert-jordan/

In the final 150 pages of The Fires of Heaven — book five of the Wheel of Time series — Robert Jordan hits his storytelling stride. While this book — like all the others — covers a length...

https://bewilderedcreatures.com/2014/10/27/the-fires-of-heaven-by-robert-jordan/

The Shadow Rising, book four of The Wheel of Time series, is another long, tedious, lead-up to an eventual clash with members of The Forsaken — the minions of the Dark Lord, though at least thi...

https://bewilderedcreatures.com/2014/09/15/the-shadow-rising-by-robert-jordan/

The Dragon Reborn is book three of the Wheel of Time series. In book three, Rand appears only briefly as the book follows Egwene, Elayne, and Nynaeve’s storyline as Aes Sedai, interspersed with...

https://bewilderedcreatures.com/2014/07/24/the-dragon-reborn-by-robert-jordan/

The first half of The Great Hunt (book two of the Wheel of Time) series, suffers from the same tedium as The Eye of the World. The last third of the book is action-packed and nearly impossible to...

https://bewilderedcreatures.com/2014/07/24/the-great-hunt-by-robert-jordan/