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Are you kidding me?! Min from the first book is all of a sudden brought back? I am currently finishing up the first one and looking ahead.. How the hell am I suppose to remember a small character that had not much to do with the plot for 4 huge books?! Does re-occurring characters like this happen all the time?

Stephanie Some comments leave me wondering about the reading comprehension of some people. Min has a minor role in the first book but is heavily present in the …moreSome comments leave me wondering about the reading comprehension of some people. Min has a minor role in the first book but is heavily present in the second and third. It's not like she had one line in one book and suddenly reappears in this one. This actually IS true of multiple characters from these books, at least three of whom re-appear in this book after being gone from the second or third. If you have trouble remembering a major character like Min, perhaps these books are not for you.(less)

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Yuss Le'Fay You just spoiled me about Nynaeve...

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Is book four like the previous two books where all of the main characters are split up and scattered to the four winds only to be reunited at the very end of the book? It was fine before but this formula is getting kind of tiresome.

cc I know this is about five years too late, but no. The characters are still split up, but they do not all reunite at the end of the novel.

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this isn't interesting book?

Patricia Ferreira This book is very interesting, but it's the fourth in a series of 14, so you should start at the beginning, with "The eye of the world".…moreThis book is very interesting, but it's the fourth in a series of 14, so you should start at the beginning, with "The eye of the world".(less)

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Idk the right word,but this writer obviously had some issues with women,right?,this books are all about them,feminist books...what was his problem idk.But the more i read them,more i dislike this wheel of time.

Larissa Why issues? Yes the women are strong and bossy in this book and make fun of men all the time, but I like this better, than women who are treated like …moreWhy issues? Yes the women are strong and bossy in this book and make fun of men all the time, but I like this better, than women who are treated like trash or like they have nothing to say at all. I think Jordan wanted to diverse his world from the real world. So here the women play the stronger part and not men, as in our society a long time. Also I would suspect it comes with the history of the book, that men are often seen as dangerous because of the thread with saidin, so the gender-fight is naturally. But I don't think men were treated badly here, not at all. They are both equal.
I don't want to be political now...I am a women but I am no feminist at all, I don't think we need mor rights, just the same. And I don't think Jordan was a feminist or had any kind of problem, just someone who liked strong women/charakters.(less)

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