title: Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10)
author:  Robert Jordan 
description: The eagerly awaited 10th installment (after 2000's Winter's Heart) in Jordan's monumental Wheel of Time has all the breadth and depth that have made this fantasy author one of the acknowledged greats of the genre. Like Tolkien's Ring trilogy, Wheel of Time is a single, extended novel rather than a series, and in Crossroads, new characters join the cast and old favorites grow ever more complex. Yet if the scope of Jordan's richly nuanced creation has won him millions of readers, it also forms the saga's biggest obstacle. Here Mat Cauthon is still fleeing the Seanchan; Perrin Goldeneyes still hunts the Shaido to free his beautiful wife, Faile; the cities Caemlyn and Tar Valon are still besieged and the battles have not been joined. Those impatient with the glacial movement of the last four books will find more of the same. As the title suggests, this entry represents a turning point, a time of momentous decisions as the rebel Aes Sedai consider an alliance with the Asha'man and Rand ponders a truce with the Seanchan. Lending perhaps the most recognizable humanity is Mat's love interest, Tuon, the spoiled, adorable Daughter of the Nine Moons, whose kidnapping is concealed by Valan Luca's Grand Traveling Show and Magnificent Display of Marvels and Wonders. She twists Mat around her finger, deliberately annoying him by calling him "Toy." The epilogue suggests Tuon will play a major role in volume 11. Jordan fans who miss the breakneck pace of the earlier books can always hope the action will pick up again.<br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **Praise for the**
  
  
  **THE WHEEL OF TIME** ®
  
  
  “The battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience, and
  the . . . evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any
  promised salvation, the sense of the unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable
  events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three
  decades.”
  
  
  — _The New York Times_
  
  
  “Has all the breadth and depth that have made this fantasy author one of the
  acknowledged greats of the genre.”
  
  
  — _Publishers Weekly_
  
  
  “His writing is distinguished . . . by the richness of its fabric, with all
  the charm and naïveté of the Brothers Grimm and the social/moral commentary of
  Huxley’s _Brave New World_. With his well-fleshed-out characters, dark
  imagery, comic relief, vivid landscapes, and a fascinating sense of
  timelessness, Jordan has created a complex literature with a language and
  reality all its own.”
  
  
  — _BookPage_
  
  
  “Throughout Jordan’s preeminent high-fantasy saga . . . the characte