The Dragon Reborn

This book was one that I was really excited to get to and get through.

It was an excellent read (again) and I very muched enjoyed it.  I especially loved Mat.  Him and his quater staff and his dice.  I love his luck factor and how it comes in to play in just abou everyting he does.

Perrin's story, while not entirely action-packed, is fun to read as well.  Zarine a.k.a. Faile, his future wife, finds him and latches on to him immediately.  All three of the main male characters are quite dim when it comes to women.  And what makes that better is when Perrin wishes Rand were around to help him talk to a girl, or when Rand wishes Perrin were around to do the same for him.

Things are picking up.  The Aiel are crossing the spine and coming in to the wetlands again.  Their prophecies are fulfilled at the end of the book when Rand takes the Stone of Tear and claims Callandor, the sword wrought with the One Power, as his own.

Moiraine begins connecting pieces at the end of the novel, prophcies of the Aiel that she was unaware were important.  The sets up their adventure to the Aiel Wastes in The Shadow Rising.

On to The Shadow Rising.

The Great Hunt

So I finished The Great Hunt a few weeks ago and totally forgot to review it.

Problem is, I don't remember what happened in The Great Hunt, specifically that some of the things I recall might have actually happened at the beginning of The Dragon Reborn.

I do remember Rand, Mat, and Perrin chasing after the Horn of Valere after it was stolen by Padan Fain.  Who also stole the Shadar Logoth dagger that Mat requires to be healed.

Long story short, everything sort of works out, in the end, but we learn that the Forsaken are loose.  I loved rereading about Selene (Lanfear) and how she kept egging Rand on to seize glory.  Rand's entire story line in the alternate universe was very interesting as well.  I liked the concept of this alternate universe that is tied to Tel'aran'rhiod.

Perrin's further development with the wolf dream and his abiliy to smell darkfriends (Trollocs and Fades) comes to the rescue when Hullin (I think that's his name) went msising with Rand because Rand channeled when they fell asleep next to a Portal Stone.

I can't remember anything specific that stuck out in this book that made me think "Holy shit, I totally remember this."  I did remember Egwene getting captured by the Seanchen and how horrible that experience was.  I realized I remembered it and pictured it very similarly as I did the first time I readit.

Awesome book, and I already finished The Great Hunt so time to review that one as well.