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Title: Are we there yet? Maybe in another 10 books...
Review: Unfortunately, it seems Robert Jordan has fallen into the commercial trap that so many pulp fantasy writers do: serial placeholders. The first three or four books in this series were excellent, with a sufficient mix of character development and plot action. Now, it seems that we have 600+ pages of rehashed character un-development with a few new novelty characters thrown in to make it look like something is happening. After finishing reading the book and looking back, there is NO significant plot advancement at all. You could skip this book altogether and pick up book 11 without even realizing it. I'm very disappointed in Robert Jordan, and even though I've been forcing myself to read The Wheel of Time since it came out, if Mr. Jordan is trying to drag this series out for another ten books, I'm sure I won't be the only reader who moves on to fresher material long since.
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