Title: The Fires of Heaven
Author: Robert Jordan
Genre: Fantasy (Epic)
Pages: 992

Summary
The adventures of Rand and friends continues in the fifth book of the wheel of time.  Still, no spoilers so not really giving the story away.

Notes (Spoilers)
This is going to be a short notes section because pretty much everything I said about book four holds true here.

The story remains interesting, but it’s drown in a sea of Robert Jordan cliches. Women saying how wool-brained men are. Men saying how they don’t understand women. One particular character, Nynaeve, companing through the entire book that the dress she was wearing was way too revealing. ENOUGH ALREADY. WE GET IT!!!

At least she didn’t have a braid to tug in this one. Although this book also contains one of my favorite scenes where Nynaeve gets yelled at for basically acting like a stubborn ass all the time. It’s a dressing down that sorely has been needed for the past 4 books.

But as annoying as the characters are getting and the cliches running left and right, the story is still really good. You just have to wade through a lot of crap and over-description to actually get at it.

Next Book
I’m taking another break from the Wheel of Time with a book recommended by Wassy, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover. I’m about 100 pages in and I’ve been totally sucked in so far. After that I’ll be reading, as I mentioned before, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Related posts:

  1. Book 10: The Eye Of The World
  2. Book 14: The Shadow Rising
  3. Book 26: Crown Of Swords
  4. Book 11: The Great Hunt
  5. Book 22: Lord of Chaos