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Suroth wants Rand to meet Tuon? How is she gonna make that happen when she has no idea where Tuon is? We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, And tore the world asunder. The End Of the Tenth Book of The Wheel of Time Overall a pretty good book, not as good as the last two books. I get why people don't like this book, but I enjoyed it well enough. There was enough plot progression that I'd say that I don't think people are being fair when they say nothing happens. It's just a lot of buildup for things in the next book

Welp, Egwene's been kidnapped. What in the hell was she even trying to do? Should I know that yet? I'm genuinely not sure if I just don't remember what she's trying to do

Is that an actual spoiler? I'm asking a hypothetical question, not actually expecting an answer if it's not ready to be given yet.

There's a strange kind of tension in a main character's love interest being someone who is by all rights should be a villain. It's very interesting how Mat's relationship with Tuon seems to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It likely wouldn't have happened if Mat hadn't been told that he was to marry the daughter of the nine moons. Maybe the Pattern would have contrived it another way but as it happened, it's self-fulfilling and wouldn't have happened if Min said nothing What in the good god damn just happened, why the hell did Mat just imagine a crowd of people? What the hell kind of explanation is that gonna have?

Oh my god. Perrin considering asking for help from Seanchan. What must be done indeed.

What in the good god damn is happening in So Habor. It feels like Fain's work but the dead walking is new. I love it when Wheel of Time just has random horror elements that just aren't explained. I half hope this is just never explained, like Mordeth and Shadar Logoth. It makes it more fun that way. That there's just a random village that went insane and started seeing ghosts with zero explanation

I just don't get the hope thing. I don't think Rand hopes to die even after Tarmon Gai'don, not unless he does go mad which is less likely now than ever

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh should I be nervous that a Perrin chapter has the Seanchan symbol, I'm gonna be nervous

To be fair, if Shaidar Haran WAS the Dark One, it'd be pretty obviously a heavily weakened state if he has to manifest as a god damn Myrdraal. Not exactly the peak of threatening at this point. Ohhhh right, I forgot that vision. It was like Alivia is going to be related to Rand's death right? Cadsuane didn't bring up the viewing in her narration though. She did get a lot of information out of Min, hell she learned that she bonded Rand, but I'm not sure that was one of them. Her narration was like "there's a connection there based on how they look at each other", instead of "there's a connection there because that girl will be the death of him". And if it was related to the vision, then I'm not sure what the "Alivia's gaze was filled with determination, and Rand's with hope" would be about. Oh also I forgot to mention this, Egwene had some dreams. Mat's gonna probably kill a lot of people, no surprise there. A Seanchan is going to save Egwene, and the Seanchan are going to attack the Tower. The latter is pretty obvious, that's probably gonna be the final battle the Seanchan are in if I had to guess (or at least the final battle they're a villainous force in, maybe after that point the worst people will be dead and Tuon will take over the remnants of the army and have them fight for Rand after having Epic Character Development thanks to Mat). The former is interesting, Egwene is having a hard time reconciling with it but I think to the reader it's pretty obvious that it's just a Seanchan who defected, there's plenty of those at the moment. I'm not sure who exactly it could be, there's a lot of options. Alivia is the first option that comes to mind and it'd be a fun one. Bethamin is probably the most interesting option, considering how she was the one who collared Egwene. Tuon is possible and maybe it's the point that marks her character as developed, where she chooses to free a marath'damane (assuming the threat is that she's collared, and not that she's in mortal peril). Lot of options. Lot of things I'm thinking. Egwene doesn't know about Egeanin right? Did Elayne and Nynaeve tell her about that?

Alright so. Egwene is trying to make peace with the Black Tower, and is trying to start negotiations with the White Tower (which is mostly a way to buy time). The Sitters in the White Tower are ALSO trying to start negotiations with the rebels. Alviarin's title as Keeper has been removed, Alviarin believes Shaidar Haran is the Dark One (interested if this is true), and Shaidar is influential enough to punish a Forsaken whenever he wants (idk if we knew that before but we do now). If he IS the Dark One, then that makes sense. If he isn't, then what in the good god damn. If he isn't the Dark One himself, I wonder if him or Moridin is higher up on the food chain. Additionally, Pevara and Tarna know that Saidin is cleansed and intend to take the Black Tower as Warders (very interesting that they had the same idea as the Aes Sedai with Rand, I wonder what the deal is with that). Hopefully Elaida actually believes this, she can't be that dumb (she is absolutely that dumb (elaida is gonna ruin everything my god)). Cadsuane has Verin seemingly hiding from some people, including other Aes Sedai like Alanna. That's interesting. Something else interesting is that Cadsuane believes there's a connection between Rand and Alivia. I'm not sure what to make of that, but if it means Alivia is more important I'll be happy with it. I have rarely grown to love a side character as much as this in such a short time. Apparently the events at Shadar Logoth made Rand HARDER. Gonna finish tomorrow. Saw that the chapter after Cadsuane's chapter is a Rand chapter, so I'm definitely gonna stop for now and also binge tomorrow.

Oddly one of the things I'm most excited for when I go back to Rand is getting more Alivia, because thay scene where Lanfear shows up and Alivia just walks up on her own while everyone else is fighting is a group lives rent free in my head and I love her. There is the obvious "yeah Saidin's cleaned now cool" but I just want more Alivia. Im sorry for making fun of her for that one line where they said she was stronger than Nynaeve, she's actually based

Reading this book, I do understand why people say it's the worst of the slog, but I'm not feeling it. My enjoyment isn't absolutely dead like it was from Fires of Heaven through Crown of Swords (or at least most of those books, they all still had their peak standout moments obviously). While yes, far less is happening in this book than any of the other books, I feel it's still an important book. It's mostly just serving to touch base with the characters, see where they're standing, etc. There's almost nothing changing the status quo but they're each very much building up to major events.

What are some of the funniest out of context scenes in Wheel of Time? This series has a lot of really funny things out of context moments, and I'm very curious to hear some of your favorites. Tag spoilers, of course

Do note I'm still reading at a good clip, just haven't had a lot to say

"You would think she had never seen someone bite a bone in two before" LMFAO Also some thoughts I was musing in the Discord Its kind of funny how the Aes Sedai are kinda shaping up to be the butt monkey of the channeling groups. They just sorta get disrespected by everyone. They're even getting disrespected by the Kin at this point lmao. Its such an interesting turn of events considering they're undoubtedly the ones with the most influence, renown, and respect. Except every other group of channeler treats them all like absolute garbage with a few specific exceptions, almost all of whom are main characters. Its very interesting how the Aes Sedai always get knocked down by like 20 pegs, but the Wise Ones and Windfinders are generally about as arrogant and cocksure as Aes Sedai but they never get knocked down at all except where Seanchan are concerned (and as I recall, there hasn't been a Wise One made damane yet so they don't even have that) (not saying that they should be made damane obviously but people ahould be calling out their nonsense just like they do with Aes Sedai because nonsense they have). Part of this is very much because I find the Windfinders (at least the ones we've met as named characters traveling with our protagonists) unbearable and want Rand or Nynaeve or Elayne or ANYONE to call them out and actually have it stick

TYLIN IS DEAD! THE EVIL IS DEFEATED! What, what do you mean the Dark One is still alive? H E R H E A D W A S T O R N O F F W H A T "And he could not help wondering, what had Rand been doing when the dice stopped?" Good line

"Six nights ago death had walked across the water here, the One Power killing men and women and ships in darkness split by silver lightnings and hurtling bolts of fire" YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THAT'S A DOSE OF K A R M A God I love Mat, he literally stayed in Ebou Dar just to count how many people he saved. (i meant to post this last night i forgot im sorry)

Alright finally finished the prologue. Some very interesting things are happening. Valda is still around and still plotting, seeming to be ready to march on the Tower. Logain has arrived at Cairhein for reasons unknown, but I hope he's still around when Rand comes back because I NEED them to talk to each other, Gawyn is being summoned by Elaida, not knowing that Egwene is so close, and Dobraine almost died but made a miraculous recovery. I will now read CH 1 because Mat

I have three versions of these books, but the majority of them I own are that version. I also own the mass market paperback for Eye of the World (because I had that copy for a long time, someone at my house bought it when I was very young), and I own the new small paperback for Crown of Swords (which I don't like because it's really fat so it takes up a ton of space and the plastic covering started peeling)

This is the version I'm getting. The only version of this book Barnes had was the tiny mass market paperback version, and I hate those. They're way too small and the ink smudges a lot easier.

Got Crossroads of Twilight. I'll probably start it Monday

It was never gonna win Best Picture anyway. They don't take animated films seriously. Original movie got snubbed, this one won't be different

I have to wait for Barnes and Noble to ship my copy because they didn't have the version of the next book I wanted Also, I was thinking about it, and the image of everyone else protecting Rand and Nynaeve splitting off into groups, and then Cyndane just running into Alivia on her own is incredibly menacing.

Poor guy died before he even got to know what untainted Saidin felt like

Ah. I didn't realize because Jordan didn't mention that she was there. Makes sense that she would be though. My initial thought was that it was Aran'gar because I misread, and I was very confused because I was wondering how she would have got to Eben and the others. It said that Verin couldn't see the weaves, so I assumed it was Aran'gar because she would be channeling Saidin which Verin wouldn't be able to see. But it said that she was specifically channeling Saidar.