Sunday, November 7, 2010

A Crown of Swords

There's a flurry of activity in A Crown of Swords, for Robert Jordan anyway. The plot takes some major leaps in this one - Egwene and the Aes Sedai, Nynaeve and Elayne find the bowl, another Forsaken is killed and Rand actually takes a crown.

I love the bits with Mat in this one. He earns Elayne's respect (which he should have had long since) and his interaction with Birgitte is wonderful to read. I should feel bad about what happens to him in the hands of Tylin but I can't quite. I like the sheer desperation that comes through. It's too bad it ends in a cliff hanger that I know won't be resolved in the next book.

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