Lord of Chaos

Overall this was a decent book. It's not the best in the series and very much feels like a middle book, but it had it's moments. There is a lot brewing behind the scenes as the Dark One's forces regroup and revise their strategy after Rand's return from the Aiel Waste. The stage is slowly being set for some explosive confrontations in books to come.

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Very good world building, as with all wheel of time books. There are a couple major revelations that happen towards the end, but otherwise this book feels a lot less dense with events than the previous, like as if not much actually happens in it. Yet it manages to still feel like it never presses the brakes, its a weird feeling, but was still a very good book. I look forwards to the next.

This could have been 400 pages instead of a thousand.

I'm now firmly in territory where I fell out of love with the series and stopped reading in the 90s. This was the last full book I read at the time. It's still full of sexist nonsense and not a single genuine relationship anywhere in sight. And yet I still want to know what's going to happen to Rand. I'm pretty much only invested in him and dislike all other characters. Perrin and Faile are still the worst, what a toxic relationship.

I will continue on, soon.

I can only imagine that it might be annoying that I rate all of the books in this series thus far as 5 stars. All I can say is that this is one of those rare series where I don't perceive of the individual books as separate pieces of media, but rather as parts of a whole.

EDIT: After yet another reread, I've decided that this is perhaps the best of the first six books. So many cinematic moments!