Love the books but I can’t stand a single female character in the series. The ignorance makes me hate every single woman in the books

I love the series and continue to read it multiple times. This book is good, though when compared with the others to this point, it’s a bit plodding. Still recommended, it get’s you and the story to the next book. Hang in there. It’s worth it. You won’t regret it.

Although a fan of fantasy series, I’d somehow never heard of the Wheel of Time until news of Amazon Prime shooting the series. I LOVE good sprawling epics with worlds that pop into life, stocked with great characters, and the promise of 14 in this series made me settle in with glee, so I started getting through the books one after the other a few weeks ago. Most volumes spend the entire book weaving characters together and setting the scene for an epic battle in the final chapters. 8 books in, there are so many threads woven by the Wheel that it takes time to pick up and follow the patterns of each development. This book does not follow previous templates, but I’m guessing the next book will explain what happened. Nice to break the monotony of that particular plot rhythm too. Yes, I have to commend Robert Jordan for creating so many strong main female characters, but now wonder if he actually knew many women well. While the author does a really good job fleshing out his world in intriguing detail, my major gripe is how, without fail, EVERY SINGLE female character “plants fists on her hips” at some point. Every single one. Actually, at regular intervals too. I do not know a single woman who actually does this. It’s so cartoony I groan every time this phrase pops up yet again every few chapters. They get a little 1 dimensional after a bit, but there are yet more books to go. We’ll see. Ah well….while the pace sometimes plods, I’m too far in to stop now, and have to see how things end so Book 9, here I come.