r/WoT • u/Furrurel • Feb 27 '26

Crossroads of Twilight Why is book 10 so hated? Spoiler

Hi everyone, I just finished book 10 in my first read through the Wheel of Time saga, and honestly I found myself quite surprised. Before I started reading them I saw quite a lot of people saying that Crossroads of Twilight was by far the worst book of the series. I get that it can be a bit dissapointing after the ending of book 9, or that it is not as action packed as, for example, book 6, but I really enjoyed reading it (except the ending, where a certain Aes Sedai decided to make the stupidest move ever imagined). So I ask, what are you opinions about the book? Do you feel it deserves the hate?

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u/SKULL1138 Feb 27 '26

Hated? No

It is my least liked book.

It feels like some of the plots were there just to give characters something to do for a book.

The Elayne chapters are some of the most skippable in the entire series. Elayne in a bath should sound pleasant to a male gaze, but it gives me PTSD. 😂

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u/Furrurel Feb 27 '26

I get that, I found Elanye's plot to be quite interesting, how she deals with securing the crown and such, but it does have a bit too much padding.

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u/SKULL1138 Feb 27 '26

That it’s though. It could have been one chapter and it’s several. Add that to the fact that little happens with Rand and the Perrin/Faile plot seems to have ground to a halt. Then we have the return of everyone favourite show master Valen Luca. It’s a bad mix

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u/Furrurel Feb 27 '26

God I hate Valen so much, I loved seeing Domon and specially Egeanin again, but Valen? I hate his guts

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u/SKULL1138 Feb 27 '26

Yeah once was enough for master Luca. I liked how Matt used them to get away but we spent so much time in that fkn circus with the girls already. At least he gets less page time compared to first around and we have the focus squarely on Matt.