The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, Book 3)

Mass Market Paperback, 704 pages

English language

Published Oct. 15, 1992 by Tor Fantasy.

ISBN:
978-0-8125-1371-4
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5 stars (1 review)

Rand al'Thor is the Dragon Reborn - able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it. Rand knows only that he must face the Dark One in a battle to the death. Ahead of him lies the next great test for...the Dragon Reborn.

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Review from a long-time fan (spoilers for previous books but not for this one)

5 stars

This was actually my introduction to the series- and I personally recommend that new readers start here, too. My mother picked us up an audiobook for a road trip back in middle school and didn't realize it was the third book in the series.

This book is, I feel, the first time that Jordan's writing style for the rest of the series is really cemented in place. Books 1 and 2 have a different feel to me- I'm not really sure how best to describe it.

For example, in books 1 and 2 Mat only shows a mild interest in gambling, no more than anybody else- and in his first chapter in this book, his inner monologue talks like he is a seasoned gambling addict. Perrin had, in the previous book, accepted his Wolfbrother abilities- and in this one, he is suddenly back to rejecting them. I always have heard …

Subjects

  • Fiction - Fantasy
  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy - Epic
  • Fantasy - Series
  • Fiction / Fantasy / Epic