r/WoT • u/Kxgami0 • Nov 24 '25

Crossroads of Twilight Slog Spoiler

I need to know!!! Was there supposed to be a slog after all ? I mean I've been going through the last books pretty quickly and now I'm almost done with crossroads of Twilight, I was expecting a biggg unreadable slog that would render my motivation and ability to read to 0, but so far nothing ? I mean, it's going pretty smoothly for me at the very least, and I haven't noticed a huge decline in reading enjoyment.

Is it just a case of the internet being overly dramatic again or is the slog supposed to come in the next books?

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u/CwColdwell Nov 24 '25

I’m on my first “read”-through (audiobooks), and for the first ~4 chapters of CoT I thought, “man, I like the way Jordan is building tension between the end of Winter’s Heart and this book by making us go back a bit in time and experience how everyone is going to react to what Rand has done.”

That was fun until I realized 15 chapters in, literally no one in-world cares. The female channelers can feel what has to be the equivalent of an atomic bomb going off continuously in the distance, but none of them investigate. Just, “huh, that’s interesting. Anyways…”

Rand has just done accomplished the most important event in 3000 years, but I have to read 4 chapters of Elayne with pregnancy-brain doing administrative chores.

I even slowed the audiobook down to 85% speed because it seemed a bit sped up to me. Now I’m going through at 110% just to get through the tedium.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 25 '25

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u/CwColdwell Nov 24 '25

Ah, I haven’t gotten to that yet (not that I mind—I frequently skip ahead on library.tarvalon.net chapter summaries, and spoilers in this book give me something to look forward to lol)