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Review: Wheel of Time

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

The Wheel of Time is a series of books by Robert Jor­dan. The series started out very promis­ingl, inter­est­ing char­ac­ters, good descrip­tions, bet­ter dia­log than I could ever come up with but the last cou­ple of books, Cross­roads of Twi­light in par­tic­u­lar, have failed to deliver on that early promise. The descrip­tion has been focused more on how wor­ried every­body in the story is with­out really giv­ing a good sense for why they’re so wor­ried. For all that Jor­dan has tried to make his vil­lans, the For­saken, seem to be hor­ren­dously pow­er­ful; the heros never seem to be truly over­whelmed by them. Rather the heros seem to sim­ply lack the nec­es­sary self-confidence to deal with them. The other prob­lem that the series is suf­fer­ing from is “feature-creep”. First we had the Dark friends, then Padan Fain, then the White­cloacks, then the For­saken, then the Seachan. Is there going to be any end to the vil­lians that are going to be thrown at the heros? Will we ever see a res­o­lu­tion to all the div­er­ent plot threads that make up this series? From the way that last book read, I think Jor­dan has lost or for­got­ten what­ever it was that he orig­i­nally intended to do with the series and these days is more inter­ested in turn­ing just another book to con­tinue the series because like George Lucas; he knows peo­ple might hate it but they’ll buy it anyway.

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