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MarcusHorne, September 18, 2009 (view all comments by MarcusHorne)
This is the prologue (about forty pages printed, or about 500 kindle "locations") to the new book in Robert Jordan's _Wheel of Time_ series, _The Gathering Storm_; it's coauthored by Jordan (who sadly died about a two years ago) and by Brandon Sanderson, author of several excellent but less-well-known fantasy novels.

The quality of the Wheel of Time series overall has been somewhat of a sine wave, with definite peaks and definite valleys, and despite a marked increase in quality in the book immediately prior to this one (Knife of Dreams, which came out in 2005), Jordan's death and the series' checkered history gave real reason to fear that the handover of this series would not go well.

So far as this preview goes, at least, the handover has succeeded. There's a real spark and fire here; if you're a fan of the earlier books, and you haven't gotten completely jaded to the entire Wheel of Time series by now, this prologue will probably be good enough to get you excited about the upcoming book (or, at least, it got *me* excited. But I've always been a Wheel of Time fan).

Because of the nature of the coauthorship (Jordan wrote some sections of this book before he died, and the rest was completed from outlines and notes), it's hard to know how much we're seeing here of Brandon Sanderson's work and how much of Jordan's, and there were one or two moments where I as a reader wondered whose voice I was reading. But only one or two. The puzzle-like interlocking complexity of Jordan's world and the compelling characters (major and minor) are definitely still here, and these few pages were a thrill to read.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781429952552

Author:

Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

Publisher:

Tom Doherty Associates

Author:

Jordan, Robert

Author:

Sanderson, Brandon

Subject:

Fiction : Fantasy - Contemporary

Publication Date:

September 2009

Binding:

eBooks

Language:

English