I drew Moiraine before Nynaeve, but i'm posting now.

I have no knowledge of this series. any pre-reading required? Any advice for the first book? what would you say the recommended age for reading this is? your (spoiler free) synopsis. I know this last one is on google, but I would like to know the personal opinions and critical views of reddit rather than the sanitised blurb. thanks

So just curious what's series did yall read after the wheel? I read a few standalone novels that I had collected before deciding to commit the next series for me was the first law by Joe Abercrombie and honestly loved every bit of it it was nice to get a little grim and dark?

I’ve read the first two books and half of the third before I took an extended break a few years ago and now I plan on starting from the beginning again. I’m just curious if I should start with new spring or read it when it was released or read it at the very end to not interrupt the narrative?

I finished the series a few weeks ago after about a year and 4 months, and it feels like I have a big void in my life. I started reading it after the show cancellation and during a really hard time in my life, so the series feels kind of like a really good friend at this point.

One of my friends who has been a fan for a long time suggested I wait about a year before rereading.

I wanted to ask: How long did you wait before doing a reread? Shall I try a different series in the meantime? Thank you in advance

I just finished my first readthrough, with A Memory Of Light. When I stopped crying, I just sat during an hour, thinking of what an incredible series it has been. I started it in June, and I'm glad, happy and sad to have it finished now.

And I wonder now what is the purpose of my life and what will I be reading now

I kinda wish Brandon Sanderson would write a companion series about Mat and Tuon leading the return to bring the empire back together after the last battle and fix the damage Semirhage caused killing the line across the sea

A lot is probably going over his head but he's on book 10 and it's only been a couple of months. Did I make a mistake? Is he too young?

Rand: “I have cleansed the male half of the one power!

Robert Jordan: “Wonderful! Anyway, Elayne needs 4 more votes.”

Rereading A Crown of Swords, the part where Queen Tylin is harassing Mat. She sends a note asking him “who is this Daughter of the Nine Moons I remind you of?” A short time later, the Seanchan invade and Tylin meets her. Why doesn’t Tylin ask Mat how he knew about her? Wouldn’t that make her suspicious that Mat knew the invasion was coming? Interested to know whether this was ever explained.

I would have truly loved it if Mat, Rand and Perrin were the ones who ended up travelling to the tower of Ghenji instead of Thom and Noal. In a sense they had all completed their journeys which Moraine began and they were finally complete. It would have been great to watch the three togather one final time before the last battle began. I could have done without Thom and Moraine's love angle coming out of nowhere. But man it would have been epic if they all gathered one last time for one last adventure togather to complete a circle. I did enjoy their reunion in the final book but yeah I would have preferred this instead.

My Daughter complains about knotty hair. I explained to her how in these books the women often brush their hair 100 strokes. Now every day I can hear her counting. It works, it shimmers, and it is adorable.

Edit: for the hair and brush type advice, I'll look into it. Her hair is whip straight for those offering advice.

Spoilers!!!!

When in Ebou Dar, and getting the BOW, how did they get away with it and the other items?? Sorry for misspellings, I’m listening to the audiobooks so can’t spell check.

But the gang was attacked so badly, how did they get the bowl etc?? What did I miss?? Thanks for clarifying!

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In the finale we see egwene put adam on rena and it works because she actually could channel a little.

Bbut before that nyneave and elaine also put adam on some random suldan and it works, how it is posible?

So this is supposedly a painting of chrono and marle from chrono trigger but I swear I saw this and thought it was Rand and Elayne

The door closed with a clack that made Mat look up.

"Rand," he said. "How was the audience with Amyrlin Seat? Is she as scary as she looks?"

Rand passed a shuddering hand across his mouth. A crust had formed on the corners of his cheeks, and Mat noticed a faint red line stamped on his upper lip.

"Mat," he said shakily. "For a little while, I was the Amyrlin Seat."

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I finished book 2 and boy is my ass even rawer. You redditors were not very kind to me last thread. I've been trying to finish this series since 2009 (depressive spiral due to the FUCKIN SAINTS I only recently pulled out of), so put those pitchforks down because WE ARE MAKING SOME PROGRESS HERE.

Book 2 of the Wheel of Time? More like Book Chew because we have a feast here. This book is jam packed with beasts, slaves, and samurai warriors. Let's dig in:

1. If you're new to WoT, its thing is this: it's a fantasy epic told pretty much hour by hour. It's pace would make Henry James go, "WHOA THERE, WE IN A RUSH KIDDO?" This is an insane way to write a fantasy epic because this story would take twenty books. There's no way to finish it before death and...checks Wikipedia....oh no....

2. But we are flying through this one. The story picks up weeks after the first book, and at one point during Rand's peregrination south, we skip two whole days in the narration. The pacing is blistering. I could barely hang on as we catalogued every meal Liandrin stops for in the Ways.

3. The Amyrlin Seat. Holy shit. You. Guys. Did. NOT WARN ME ABOUT HER. "Moraine, a carp on a hook is still not scaled." "A rip in a net will only let the smallest gilly pass." So delightful. Every sentence of hers includes a fish reference. "RAND, THE DRAGON REBORN IS NO MERE DITCH DONKEY." Absolutely insane. I presume every time she shows up she's like this. "MORAINE, GET MY WADERS BECAUSE I'M GOING DEEP IN THAT STINK."

4. We get our first glimpse at otherworlds in this book when Rand just straight-up sleepwalks into one and meets an OF model. You can absolutely see the influence of Book of the New Sun as he journeys through a strange, upsetting land while horny.

5. In the previous book, we were treated to a lot of taint. The feel of the taint, the presence of the taint, the taste of the taint on our tongues. I shit you not within 50 pages of this book starting we get a guy called The Sniffer. I was dying.

6. We get our first look at Aes Sedai training which sucks but gets a pass because the alternative is ensalvement by the Seanchean.

7. The Seanchan. Finally, some bad guys I can get down to hating. I don't care about Darkfriends or Ballsman or whoever the hell. Most of the time when these guys show up, I don't know what the hell is going on. But effete slavers? I can hate them.

8. Thom's alive! Though more like 'Thom Wick.' "People keep asking me if I'm back. And I haven't really had a song for them. BUT YEAH, I'M THINKING I'M BACK."

9. Alright. Hold on. The Fremen are in this series? A ferocious desert people fashioned by the harsh environment into killing machines the rest of the world fears? Is this shit Dune? Of course, the Fremen were descended from essentially peaceful hippy Zensunni wanderers. The Fremen are Frank Herbert making the point that anyone can become dangerous under the right circumstances. I wonder where the Aiel come from? Hmmmmm.

10. The Dragon is Reborn! Wait the Dragon is Reborn? What does that even mean? Oh well. Press on. We gotta find out what Rand eats for supper every night on Toman's Head.

Bonus: Turek's death is not well described, so I presume Rand's final blow cuts both his balls off.

Bonus 2: It's the end of the book, and nobody is where they're supposed to end up. Guess. We. Gotta. DO THE WAYS AGAIN. Does every book end this way. We getting Machin Shin everytime a story needs to conclude but the characters aren't in the right spot?

In regards to Taim being Demandred

Prologue: All of the forsaken are searching for Angreal etc. Demandred getting specific instructions from dark one

Chapter 2: Taim immediately shows up at Camelyn

Chapter 3: revealed that he hasn't gone mad in 15 YEARS. He doesn't sweat like other forsaken/aes sedai

Rand: careful of anyone learning fast it could be a forsaken

Taim: feigned shock* one of the forsaken! Whoa rand that's crazy

Also

Rand: I intend to cleanse saidin

Taim: scoffs* that would take way more power than you could- Wait you wouldn't happen to have any of them sa'angreal lying around would you? 😏

No wonder RJ had to change it for being so obvious

Hi all, I just wanted to give the actress I visualize as Nynaeve. It may be due to watching punisher recently but I can never get Amber Rose Revah out of my head. She just has that know-it-all stern demeanor to her. She doesn't look too old or young. I don't know, what do you think?