So there are parts of it that I really like. The focus on dreams and the horror in them was super cool. I like hearing about the world and the different cultures and how different everyone speaks and dresses. I have liked the character development too, especially Perrin's. I actually felt like I related to his wolf stuff as a trans person.
But hooooooollllyyy shit how about a cis het sit down honey you need to fucking relax. Men and women aren't seperate fucking species you nonce. Also why can no one ever say what they mean?? In general but especially men and womens interactions are like halfway between a conversation and a discussion of platonic forms. I can't fucking handle it. It's bad enough that he can't seem to describe women without first establishing their relationship to men, and that he sees liking men as a moral thing, and everything I've mentioned so far.
But when Mr. Jordan decided to include dom/sub dynamics into THE FUCKING MAGIC SYSTEM I sincerely ragequit. FOR FUCKS SAKE. Not only that but a woman having to ask a man is treated like its a degrading, dishonorable thing, and the women who just sorta ask and want things like affection and sex are seen as strange and other! A woman flirted with a man you haven't even confessed to and you are contemplating kidnapping?? Murder??
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
anyway the books really are neat but I am 50 shades of gay and I don't think it's going to get any better. Maybe when sanderson takes over it does but those are just the last two books soooooooooooo. I guess I could read summaries and then go to the last two books but I could also just read another series, considering red rising or malazaan book of the fallen. or kingkiller chronicles.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
if anyone does want to vouch for it feel free, I'm already feeling pretty stockholmy
Good books, but really hard to read. First time I've to use dictionaries in a long time.
Neat world building, but having the Captain be from a wished upon bloodline is trope-y.
Also a few more words to explain stuff and do fully sentences wouldn't hurt. Still excellent reads.
Yeah, though the Captain isn't from a bloodline, he's basically an Uruk-Hai and that gets fleshed out in...book 4 I think.
The prose does get a bit better after book 2, when he gets himself an editor unafraid to take the razor to his prose.
Yeah, it also feels as if in book 1 there are pages where friends did read over it and it is slightly more readable. Still enjoyable though. Had a look at book 2 and the difference does show. Doesn't feel as if it diminishes the style, though.
Real good books, but really hard to read.