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Title: Read the cliff's notes instead
Review: Robert Jordan has created an immensely detailed world as a setting for this series. This book keeps you up to date on a daunting number of those details in the many widely separated venues he has created, spending several long chapters on each one. He does not resolve or significantly progress any of the plot lines, with the possible exception of developments with Tuon and a (truly) last-minute plot twist. The nearly 700 page tome could be summarized in about 15 pags of notes. My advice is to wait for book 11, and only read this one if you're a true die-hard.
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