Spren of Kindness Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 Finished The Eye of the World, and am now reading Fires of Heaven. So far, it's pretty good. Question: could someone tell me the ages of some of the main characters, specifically the Emond's Fielders? I'd go on the wiki, but I don't want to spoil myself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 15 minutes ago, Spren of Kindness said: Finished The Eye of the World, and am now reading Fires of Heaven. So far, it's pretty good. Question: could someone tell me the ages of some of the main characters, specifically the Emond's Fielders? I'd go on the wiki, but I don't want to spoil myself. Stolen from Reddit: Quote Egwene al’Vere — b. 981 (17) Elayne Trakand — b. 981 (17) Lan Mandragoran — b. 953 (45) Loial — b. 908 (90) Mat Cauthon — b. 978 (19) Min Farshaw — b. 975 (23) Moiraine Damodred — b. 956 (42) Nynaeve al’Maera — b. 974 (24) Perrin Aybara — b. 978 (19) Rand al'Thor — b. 978 (19) Siuan Sanche— b. 958 (40) Tam al'Thor — b. 940 NE (58) Thom Merrilin — b. after 938 NE (max 60) Verin Mathwin — b.849 (149) Adeleas Namelle — b. 735 (263) Vandene Namelle — b. 737 (261) Source: https://amp.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/77lmqr/how_old_are_the_characters_at_the_start_of_the/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted July 2, 2021 Report Share Posted July 2, 2021 @Orlionra, thank you! I finished The Fires of Heaven. It turns out that nursing a bad case of allergies from lawn mowing gives one plenty of time to read. A few spoilers I wanted to comment on: Spoiler Logain has become one of my favorite characters in this book, despite him not doing much. I'm hoping there'll be more of him in future books. At the same time, I'm also liking Mat a bit more in this book, especially seeing the ancient tactics man come out. (As another note, Logain's line 'she sold me to Aes Sedai' was the first major emotion that WOT caused. I felt really bad for the guy. Also, I'm throwing in on Rand x Elayne, solely because of the one mention that she apparently has hair similar to Lews Therin's wife Ilyena, not because I agree with that particular pairing. (Why do we need a love square?) Gotta admit, when I started thinking it was a bit strange that there hadn't been much major character death, I was not expecting... that. My exact words upon the balefiring of Rahvin? 'Well fiddlesticks. Now you've done it. You've gone and broke the space-time continuum, you idiot.' Should I go to the WOT board for future books? The further I go in the series, the more commentary I have, and I don't want to put this stuff in the wrong place. I got a lot of books from the library, so I'll probably read Crash and Specials, just to finish off those two series, or maybe Ben-Hur. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urrutiap Posted July 9, 2021 Report Share Posted July 9, 2021 Finished reading the last 100 pages of Wheel of Time Dragon Reborn earlier today. Now Ill be reading Wheel of Time Shadow Rising 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briar King Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 On 6/30/2021 at 3:02 PM, Spren of Kindness said: Finished The Eye of the World, and am now reading Fires of Heaven. So far, it's pretty good. Question: could someone tell me the ages of some of the main characters, specifically the Emond's Fielders? I'd go on the wiki, but I don't want to spoil myself. You skipped quite a few books if you went from Eye to Fires. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Briar King said: You skipped quite a few books if you went from Eye to Fires. I was rereading Eye of the World. I read it about this time last year, but then I went six months before reading The Great Hunt, and subsequently had forgotten almost everything. Plus, I just bought my own copy of EOTW, so I really wanted to use it. Edit: I actually finished EOTW in early August 2020, and read The Great Hunt in March 2021, so closer to eight months. Funnily enough, I just noticed this notification as I finished up Lord of Chaos. I think it's the shortest amount of time I've needed to read a WOT book so far. I started yesterday morning, and it took between seven and ten hours to finish. It was pretty good. The same fairly minor complaints I've had so far. I'm thinking of writing them up, along with what I like, to do something with when I finish the series. Other stuff I've read: Crash by Eve Silver, Specials by Scot Westerfeld, Ben-Hur, Ember by Anna Holmes, Sky Without Stars, The Star-Touched Queen, The Inventor's Secret, and Dark Shores by Danielle L. Jensen. Mostly YA. The Star-Touched Queen was particularly good. Edited July 10, 2021 by Spren of Kindness 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted July 22, 2021 Report Share Posted July 22, 2021 Currently reading The Past is Red by The Catherynne M Valente 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted July 22, 2021 Report Share Posted July 22, 2021 Got through A Crown of Swords, which is probably my least favorite of Wheel of Time book so far, and The Path of Daggers, as well as Ruin and Rising, so now I'm done with Shadow and Bone. It was okay. I actually got a little emotional at the end, so I think it was pretty well done. Probably not going to read Six of Crows. I got An Ember in the Ashes and Light of the Jedi, both of which I've heard a lot about, so we'll see how good those are. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted July 22, 2021 Report Share Posted July 22, 2021 2 hours ago, Spren of Kindness said: Got through A Crown of Swords, which is probably my least favorite of Wheel of Time book so far, and The Path of Daggers, as well as Ruin and Rising, so now I'm done with Shadow and Bone. It was okay. I actually got a little emotional at the end, so I think it was pretty well done. Probably not going to read Six of Crows. I got An Ember in the Ashes and Light of the Jedi, both of which I've heard a lot about, so we'll see how good those are. Light of the Jedi was fun. I'll be reading it's sequel, The Rising Storm, soon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted July 22, 2021 Report Share Posted July 22, 2021 55 minutes ago, Orlion Blight said: Light of the Jedi was fun. I'll be reading it's sequel, The Rising Storm, soon Oh, I didn't know it had a sequel. Neat! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted July 22, 2021 Report Share Posted July 22, 2021 3 hours ago, Spren of Kindness said: Oh, I didn't know it had a sequel. Neat! Just came out! It's part of the High Republic portion of Star Wars that is using different "mediums" to tell stories in a time a few hundred years before Episode 1. So books ("adult", YA, middle grade and children's), comics and eventually manga a little later this year. Get in on the ground floor on canon that won't be acknowledged anywhere else! *laugh-sobs* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted July 27, 2021 Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 Finished An Ember in the Ashes. It was well written. I was a bit surprised at how fast paced it was. Also read Winter's Heart! I'm burned out on reading for the rest of the day, it was so good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urrutiap Posted July 29, 2021 Report Share Posted July 29, 2021 Im currently reading Wheel of Time Fires of Heaven and Children of Dune 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eluvianii Posted July 31, 2021 Report Share Posted July 31, 2021 Needed something simple and went for Zero's Familiar. This reads like a machine translation half the time but it's more than tolerable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectromixer Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 Started reading Tiamat's Wrath by James SA Corey 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 About to start Crossroads of Twilight! I've hit the double digits of WOT, which for some reason feels like an accomplishment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Spren of Kindness said: About to start Crossroads of Twilight! I've hit the double digits of WOT, which for some reason feels like an accomplishment. Good luck! That's where I stopped due to life happening. From what I heard, it is the weakest, buuuut important stuff still happens in it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Finished Crossroads of Twilight! Overall, positive feelings. Next up, a stack of sci-fi and natural disaster/survival fiction, and I expect Knife of Dreams pretty soon. At this rate, I just might be able to finish the series by mid-September. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 6 hours ago, Spren of Kindness said: Finished Crossroads of Twilight! Overall, positive feelings. Next up, a stack of sci-fi and natural disaster/survival fiction, and I expect Knife of Dreams pretty soon. At this rate, I just might be able to finish the series by mid-September. That's good to hear. I always suspected fans are harder on a series as it's going on then it may deserve. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briar King Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Star Wars Rising Storm. I’m liking this much more then Light of Jedi but I still find these books weak compared to my old EU. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 7 minutes ago, Orlion Blight said: That's good to hear. I always suspected fans are harder on a series as it's going on then it may deserve. Absolutely, especially with something as big as the Wheel of Time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulk Posted August 11, 2021 Report Share Posted August 11, 2021 Crossroads was awful in the context of the time of its publishing (I still thought it had its moments but man was it disappointing after Winter's Heart), but it works far better when you don't have three plus years to wait for Knife of Dreams, which was excellent. All downhill from here, imo! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted August 13, 2021 Report Share Posted August 13, 2021 I'm not a big poetry reader, but I got a book called Alone, by Megan Freeman, about a girl in an abandoned town. The whole thing is written in verse, though I'm not sure what kind. It's not rhyming. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I also read If We Survive by Andrew Klavan, which I have described to friends as the 'every Christian parent's worst nightmare' plot. It was good. Shorter that I would have liked, but still a good length. Next up: Into the Black by Evan Currie, an adult sci-fi about a starship's maiden voyage, and Knife of Dreams! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eluvianii Posted August 16, 2021 Report Share Posted August 16, 2021 Read Survivor Type by Stephen King. It's scary not gonna lie. I also read it while hungry which was either a brilliant idea or a terrible one depending on your viewpoint. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted August 18, 2021 Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 Knife of Dreams has proven to be slightly slow going. I'm about to start And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer by Fredrick Backman. I've heard it's a very emotional book. Excited to see how it goes! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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