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Title: Where is a good editor when you need one?
Review: After repeated delays and months of speculation, Robert Jordan'snewest WoT book, "Crown of Swords," only goes to prove that everygood author needs a better editor The first six books of the series wereall lengthy, but tightly written. The seventh has suffered, and sadly couldhave used a great deal of blue pencil. "Crown of Swords" raises thenumber of plot twists one would expect, but integration has suffered somewhat,and each subplot seems a little too shallow. The success of each precedingvolume was largely due to Jordan's ability to enmesh readers with new plotlines as old questions are answered. "Crown of Swords" put few questionsto bed, and does not capture the reader's interest as previous books had.If this were the first WoT book that I had read, I might consider stopping here.Of course it is the seventh, so I will await the next volume, hoping it resemblesthe earlier volume
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