04.14.13 Great Hunt R. Jordan.

  Wow my sweeping is out of control.  Okay, not really just my list of sweeps books on goodreads is.  I have such a massive amount of books to read and review, and review the books I've already read.  I really have to slim down my list of books to read and my sweeps list.  My mom and I just took a run around the house with each of our bullies.  We had one runner for the vehicle, one runner for bushes to hike on, one runner to run down humans like bowling balls, and the rest just did some running.  Our mommy bully took to running after everyone after all she is the one in charge.  I swear that Moose, is not really an english bully but some type of Jack Russell, he takes off like a bullet and can run around our house before we even get to one end.   At the end, we ushered them inside the house, turned on the air, and put a fan in front of the frothy one.  After drinking water, Tori showed her gratitude to us by laying down splayed chest, ears perked, and a happy panting tongue.

I am trying to write some good reviews, to keep the spoilers down to a minimum when I  can but still show the enjoyable writing.  I look forward to anybody dropping some hints on how to better my review writing.


Review of The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

originally typed  03.28.13

The great hunt   Book two of THE WHEEL OF TIME

The hunt for the mythical horn of valere

This book is an immediate continuation in the wheel of time.  Only about 2-3 weeks happen between book one and two.  Although this book is part of a series I felt that it could be possible to read this as a stand alone but do suggest reading book one first.  All the characters that made it to the end of book one continue on in book two.  Nynaeve, Egwene, and the new edition of Elayne are on their way for training in Tar Valon to become fully trained Aes Sedai and to help the ta’veren accomplish their quests.  Rand and Perrin continue to hunt the horn of Valere to see who they really are, and to help Mat, to prevent him from dying.  They bring along new characters such as the Seanchan, The Amyrlin Seat herself, Princess-heir of Andor, and old characters as Moraine, Loial, and Padan Fain.

The three Aes Sedai in training, continue to grow in power and knowledge in their training but, ultimately leave because of their close connections to the three boys.  After all, how could they let anything happen to the boys when they could possibly stop it from happening?  Rand struggles to find out if he really is the dragon reborn or some false dragon put up by Tar Valon.  Perrin slowly succumbs to some of the pleasures of his yellow eyes while struggling to find out more about them.  Mat wants to sever his connection to Shadar Logoth.  Each person in their own way contributes to the “hunt” for the stolen horn of Valere.  With the Dark one’s henchmen stealing it out of the clutches of Aes Sedai by some even darker character than experienced before; the boys leave with a small army of their own chasing after the foulness of darkfriends.  On the way, as is typical of the last book, the boys are split up, and eventually united making strange acquaintances along the way.    But what will happen when the darkfriends decide to use the boys hearts’ (Nynaeve and Egwene) to draw them into a trap and a new enemy.  What will happen when the horn of Valere is blown to summon the heroes of old; a battle to spread across all of the land. 

I did enjoy reading this book however; I felt that most of the three boys traveling apart was almost a waste of space.  Way too many pages were devoted to not exploring the newly old discovered way of travel, and following the darkfriends.  Yes, there were some parts which did lend themselves to the story such as new legends learned of the dragon reborn form the Aiel, however most were not important.  New strengths and weaknesses were shown in some of the characters which would set the scene for the next battles and books.  The inevitable battle at the end was quite brief but, as is found out in the book is because THE Dark One is not actually destroyed just sets his plans back further.  The ending of this book does give me hope for the rest of the series though  Due to what I consider some unnecessary traveling and long winded writing I still believe this book good to read so I give this book a ★★☆★★.