I’ve been reading the Robert Jordan novels from the Wheel of Time (WoT) series for about a decade now, and I just started the series over in anticipation of book 12’s release this fall.
A Little WoT History
1990-2005: The first eleven novels beginning with The Eye of the World and ending with Knife of Dreams, are written and released by Robert Jordan. Since the release of book 11, thousands of WoT fans have anticipated the final book, A Memory of Light.
September of 2007: The WoT community, the fantasy genre, and Jordan’s family experienced a great loss when Jordan passed away. Fans have expressed their condolences over the past two years, and I want to add my voice to say we appreciate the work Jordan was able to complete before his passing.
December 2007: Jordan’s wife and editor of his books, Harriet, continued to honor him after his death through her commitment o see the WoT series completed. Harriet passed the torch to Brandon Sanderson, an accomplished author in his own right, to complete the final book of the series. (Harriet will edit the final books just like she did for her husband)
Jan/Feb 2008: Brandon did his own re-read of Jordan’s books, and he had the pleasure of Jordan’s notes for the final book and the knowledge of how the series would end.
March 2009: After writing for almost a year, Brandon estimated the length of AMoL to possibly be 800k words. That makes sense to me because of the number of characters and plotlines that need to be completed. But a book at that length is pretty much impossible to bind, so Brandon, Harriet and TOR decided to split the final book into three volumes. You can see Brandon’s post about it here.
April 2009: Matt Mauldin begins his own re-read of The Wheel of Time series in anticipation for the release of the first part of the twelfth book to be released (hopefully) November of 2009.
So what does all of this mean?
It means that I’ll be posting my thoughts on each book as I complete them. This will be my second, third, or fourth read of the books depending on how long they have been released. I’ll update this page with the link to the new post each time I finish a book.
- The Eye of the World – read the review
- The Great Hunt – finished reading on May 5th, 2009. Read the review
- The Dragon Reborn – finished reading on May 23rd, 2009. Here’s the review
- The Shadow Rising – finished reading on June 22nd – Read my review
- The Fires of Heaven – finished reading on July 28th – The review is here
- Lord of Chaos -
- A Crown of Swords -
- The Path of Daggers -
- Winter’s Heart -
- Crossroads of Twilight -
- Knife of Dreams -
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