Crossroads Of Twilight: Book 10 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series)

The Wheel of Time, on the whole, is a great series, with good scenery, an engaging story and characters that stick. I like this series a lot, and I was looking forward to reading this when I picked it up. The characters have grown on me, ever since I got the first book from a bookstore a few months ago. The series, in the beginning, was great, but then three books ago (A Crown of Swords) it began to slow down. Nevertheless, I was hopeful that this one would speed up. But this was not the case. This is so unbelievably boring, it took me a full six months to endure. There is barely any action - or plot, come to think of it - to speak of, the pace of the book is an unbelievably slow slur of words, and to cap it all off, the author seemed to be so wrapped up in his own plot, and so full of himself after so much success, that he decided to dedicate an entire novel to boring filler that doesn't move the story forward, and makes you lose all faith in the rest of the series. This book consists of a certain structure with every section of the 'story': 1. Scene opens with someone thinking or speaking something important. 2. Scene layout for way too long that decides to tell you what every single important character is wearing (and what they smell like in the scenes with Perrin in it). 3. Speaking. Lots and lots of speaking, with added walking, sniffing, complaining and skirt-adjusting. 3. Scene ends on a 'cliffhanger'. 4. Repeat a billion times. As you can probably guess, this gets very boring after a while, which explains why it took so long to read. My advice is, if or when you get to this instalment of the series, just skip it and read a summary of it on the internet. It will save you a lot of time, believe me.

Nothing happens in this book. If you were to skip it and go straight to the next I dont think you would really notice. At no point does the plot really move forward and it just seems like filler. To be honest the only reason I stuck with this one is that after 10 books I am fully commited to finishing the series

Such a good series. I love the depth of exploration into each character, even if it did mean not a lot actually happened in this book