Wheel of Time: Shadow Rising(book 4)
It's taking me a while to get through these despite really liking them. They are huge and my time was limited with work, not to mention they can get kind of irritating like bad 90's stand up comedy "men be like this, but women be like THIS!" Plus there's the braid tugging and skirt arranging, it never ends! The main characters are all much better now that they have more individual personality and things are slowly coming together. Although it's getting hard to take any threat serious when they can face down pretty much anything now. Which makes me fear some of the later books might be vast swathes of filler given their size and the amount of them. I really want to know what happens next though.
I just wish they had more Moiraine, Suian Sanche and Lanfear. Less Nynaeve... much less Nynaeve and her god damn mother fecking braid and stout shoes. She's such an annoying bitch so far too. The male characters so far haven't been as interesting as the female ones, but Perrin was the stand out of the main three. Mat has potential, but feels like he is still being set up for a big story rather than having one.
I dunno whether to push on with the next one or take another break as I felt a bit burned out after reading the first two in a row then had to take a break of a few months between 2 and 3 and between 3 and 4. I do have other stuff there to read I suppose. It's just already getting hard to remember who everyone is with such a big cast, especial the Aiel. All those gingers and blondes being described in various confusing versions of ginger and blonde. Sun haired, flame haired, golden haired, hair the colour of wheat, hair like an albino baboon. Just say ginger or blonde!
