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The way Blake Crouch writes just really does it for me. Obsessed.

THE WHEEL OF TIME

1) The Eye of the World ★★★★
2) The Great Hunt ★★★★★
3) The Dragon Reborn ★★★★★
4) The Shadow Rising ★★★★★
5) The Fires of Heaven ★★★★★
6) Lord of Chaos ★★★★★
7) A Crown of Swords ★★★★
8) The Path of Daggers ★★★★

Sister stories will always hit the spot for me, tbh.

3.75 stars.

Can I get my own taynix, please? Seriously. I want one.
I really liked FM as a main character in this novella. It feels a little more YA than Sanderson's solitary writing does, but it wasn't jarringly different. More romance, which isn't my thing, but it wasn't the focus of the story so it was alright.

thank you, victoria, for a romance-free fantasy

I think my favourite stories were the first and the last one, though all of these were really enjoyable.

This was incredibly gross and weird. It's like Wayward Children meets Stranger Things, or something like that.

Loved getting to see Taryn's point of view of all of this.

THE WHEEL OF TIME

1) The Eye of the World ★★★★
2) The Great Hunt ★★★★★
3) The Dragon Reborn ★★★★★
4) The Shadow Rising ★★★★★
5) The Fires of Heaven ★★★★★
6) Lord of Chaos ★★★★★
7) A Crown of Swords ★★★★

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Got to properly feed my nostalgia with a boarding school book set in Norfolk. I also loved how fast-paced it was. God, now I really want to turn back time to when I lived in Norfolk and went to school there.

Maybe I'm just too dumb for this book, or maybe it doesn't work as well as an audiobook, but I was mostly just confused the entire time.

I was SO into it for the first part, with the bookish heroine and the trials, then the love triangle bit in the middle part of the book made me consider it a 3-star, but then the end happened and bumped it up a star. Excited for the second book now!

THE WHEEL OF TIME

1) The Eye of the World ★★★★
2) The Great Hunt ★★★★★
3) The Dragon Reborn ★★★★★
4) The Shadow Rising ★★★★★
5) The Fires of Heaven ★★★★★
6) Lord of Chaos ★★★★★
7) A Crown of Swords ★★★★

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I really love this middle grade series. And this third book was quite possibly my favourite of them all.

4.5 stars

MY BABY HELENE IS AN EMPRESS NOW HER POWERRR

I know the author irl and I'm super excited to read this and so happy for her. ♡

THE WHEEL OF TIME

1) The Eye of the World ★★★★
2) The Great Hunt ★★★★★
3) The Dragon Reborn ★★★★★
4) The Shadow Rising ★★★★★
5) The Fires of Heaven ★★★★★
6) Lord of Chaos ★★★★★
7) A Crown of Swords ★★★★

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Oh, this was so good. Love how much we got to see of Nynaeve in this one!

4.5 stars

It has taken me far too long to read this (seven months!!!) and it's 100% due to the hell of a winter I went through mental health-wise. The book itself is awesome and I'm thrilled to finally have entered the Cosmere universe.

I knew this was a hate-to-love before I went in, but I didn't expect it would be that way for me with the characters as well! I kinda hated them both at the start, then loved them by the end. Pretty neat.

When I first started (and paused) this book 5 years ago, I knew I wasn't that into it, but I somehow missed the fact that it's basically christian fantasy romance and to that I say No. Thank. You.

At least I finished it and can move on now.

This was one of my most anticipated releases of 2020 so I'm really sad I didn't enjoy it very much.

First of all, the synopsis does not make it seem like it, but this is an urban fantasy (not my favourite genre at all). So the book was not at all what I expected. When I started reading, I thought I had picked up the wrong book by accident and I checked and re-checked that I was actually reading “Seasons of the Storm”.

Second, the plot is confusing, the characters are rather one-dimensional and I didn't feel engaged in the romance. Now, I'm not a romance fan in general, but I can enjoy it if the story surrounding it is good and the characters are likeable. It just didn't do it for me in this book.

I considered DNF'ing, but decided I should give it a full go since it was so high on my anticipated releases... Oh well, I've finished it now. I won't be reading the sequel.

This book had so many things I love in it!
• Sister relationship
• Ancient Greece fantasy setting
• A pantheon of interesting gods
• Magical artefacts

I really enjoyed it, I only wish we got to learn more about the gods and the artefacts than we did. I realise it's hard to go deep with a YA standalone, but that aspect of the story was super interesting to me. Otherwise the setting felt really atmospheric and I felt like it was easy to envision the places being described.

THE WHEEL OF TIME

1) The Eye of the World ★★★★
2) The Great Hunt ★★★★★
3) The Dragon Reborn ★★★★★
4) The Shadow Rising ★★★★★
5) The Fires of Heaven ★★★★★
6) Lord of Chaos ★★★★★
7) A Crown of Swords ★★★★

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The cast of characters is growing fast and I have to say I was a little bit confused while reading, but it didn't take away from my enjoyment.

My favourite characters are still Nynaeve and Elayne, especially Nynaeve, and I can't wait to see more of them when I pick up The Fires of Heaven!