{"id":1503,"date":"2009-11-04T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T00:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2010-11-08T00:40:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T19:10:30","slug":"the-gathering-storm-full-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2009\/book-reviews\/the-gathering-storm-full-book-review.html\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time) &#8211; Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest book in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2009\/book-reviews\/book-review-wheel-of-time-series.html\">Wheel of Time<\/a> series is a mixed bag of success. Brandon Sanderson seems to have picked up nicely from where Robert Jordan left off, but at the same time, he seems to have inherited his weakness for dithering. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; there&#8217;s a <em>lot<\/em> of action in this book, but the actual plot advancement is limited to just two or three steps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It makes me feel there was no need to break down &#8220;A memory of light&#8221; into three books. With the amount of filler material in this book, I think perhaps a single mammoth work would have easily taken care of the remaining events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1506\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1506 \" title=\"The Gathering Storm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/The-Gathering-Storm.jpg\" alt=\"The Gathering Storm\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/The-Gathering-Storm.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/The-Gathering-Storm-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gathering Storm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I won&#8217;t spoil the plot for readers here, but I can give the storylines which have important action in them. At the end of the book, only the two following characters have advanced:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Egwene&#8217;s storyline moves forward <em>one<\/em> notch<\/li>\n<li>Rand is no closer to <em>Tarmon Gaidon<\/em> though one or two interesting things happen to him<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While this rate of progress is nothing unusual for Robert Jordan (perhaps even more exciting than some of his later books), I was expecting more advancement of the storyline from Sanderson. There are some characters who are completely missing (though that can be a good thing &#8211; the last thing I want to hear about is Elayne) but the last battle is still nowhere in sight. This series has been going on for <em>20 years<\/em> now and I would really like to wind it up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book started slowly. It failed to live up to the promise of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2009\/book-reviews\/the-gathering-storm-prologue-i-love-it-wheel-of-time-series.html\">the prologue<\/a> which showed some people getting off their asses and actually moving towards the field of the last battle. And while the book features some very memorable scenes, I feel like a person who&#8217;s got down from a merry-go-round not far from where he got on. I&#8217;m breathless, but still in the same place more or less.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oh well, I&#8217;m committed to the series now and can&#8217;t turn back. Two more books to go and two more years to wait. My only consolation is the promise of it all ending at the completion of that time. So there <em>must<\/em> be something that happens in those two remaining books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book review of &#8220;The Gathering Storm&#8221; &#8211; the latest book in &#8220;The Wheel of Time&#8221; series &#8211; without spoiling the plot. 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