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Old 04-30-2014, 02:24 PM   #5027 (permalink)
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Lolgraendal. I did not much care for Egwene until she decided she had no interest in Rand, and after that she has gradually improved each book. I do know a spoiler about her future that I haven't yet read up to, but I'll not press for them. I think I know enough already, only having two definite spoilers.
Spoiler for xdfgdh:
If only they didn't give her the arbitrary love interest with Elayne's brother. Just felt like they had to give her somebody and he was unattached, so why the hell not? I actually like the idea of her not having one. It would actually kind of suit her... later escapades.


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I like Aviendha, I just don't like her relationship with Rand; I found it
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incredibly out of character that she would so betray Elayne and ji'eh'toh by humping with him that it actually extracted me from the novel
and I still haven't forgiven Jordan for it. And Aiel humour is just my kind of humour. What isn't to get, really.
I was probably too into the political scheming to bother being too disappointed with that. It does go overboard later on, along with the mindless describing of absolutely every detail of every scene (I don't know if Jordan was just trying to milk the series for money or he just really had no idea where to go, but it got pretty ridiculous), but the first few books after the third, while they slow down a lot, they make up for it with some seriously interesting political intrigues. If you're thirteen then I imagine it could be pretty boring, but I was in my early/mid-twenties when I did, so it was awesome.
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