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The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)

Robert Jordan

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Apr 03, 2016 Bennett rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite-books, second-time-through, fantasy-worlds, audiobook, 2016-reads, 2019-reads

Fun facts about The Shadow Rising:
- It is the longest book by word count and the second longest by page count (Lord of Chaos is slightly longer).
- It is the first WoT book to feature more female POVs than male (though men’s POVs dominate in word count, with a 5:3 ratio).
- Perrin holds the title for most POVs with 21 out of the 95 total POVs. Rand comes in second with 16, and Elayne third with 13. All other characters have 8 or fewer POVs.
A Statistical Analysis of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Ti Fun facts about The Shadow Rising:
- It is the longest book by word count and the second longest by page count (Lord of Chaos is slightly longer).
- It is the first WoT book to feature more female POVs than male (though men’s POVs dominate in word count, with a 5:3 ratio).
- Perrin holds the title for most POVs with 21 out of the 95 total POVs. Rand comes in second with 16, and Elayne third with 13. All other characters have 8 or fewer POVs.
A Statistical Analysis of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time by Kevin Klein

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Some annoying things:
-When the POV character is a man, they describe the height/strength of women from a point of weakness. “She was tall/strong, for a woman;” “barely a hands width shorter than him.”
-There are also a lot of jokes that revolve around physical violence.
-Love is starting to play a central role in the story. I can usually get onboard, but these relationships suddenly show up on the page without any build up. I’m not a fan of instalove plots
-Finally, I cant count the number of times a character “startles” themselves, realizing they accidentally said what they were thinking out loud.

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Ranking 4/28/16:
1. The Shadow Rising 5/5
2. The Dragon Reborn 4.9/5
3. The Great Hunt 4.5/5
4. The Eye of the World 4.4/5

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