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Dec 08, 2018Chinderixx rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
The Gathering Storm is such a great improvement over the last few Wheel of Time books, it's almost surprising. The plot that slowed down around A Crown of Swords actually starts moving again and stuff happens! While Brandon Sanderson's writing style is different than Robert Jordan's, I enjoyed it and found it less confusing. The characters seemed pretty much the same to me and I have to say that Sanderson did a good job. This book mostly focuses on Rand and Egwene, but that was fine with me. I think that Egwene should really be considered the main heroine of this novel as we finally see the White Tower conflict resolved and see her have a somewhat happy conclusion at the end. Rand was kind of dislikable for most of this book because his insanity reaches its peak and he was just really cold and mean. (Although it looks like he changes at the end, but I can't be too sure). I also really liked how many of the characters reflected on their previous adventures from past books. This was something that I noticed they did not do before. I also should add that another thing that I liked was how Brandon Sanderson did not spend unnecessary amounts of time on what the female characters were wearing like Robert Jordan did. Anyways, while I thought that this book was a little extreme at times, I think that it was interesting and I am excited to continue onto Towers of Midnight and see where the plot goes next.