Crossroads Of Twilight: Book 10 of the Wheel of Time: Book 10 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series): 10/11 - Softcover

Jordan, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841491837 ISBN 13: 9781841491837

Publisher: Orbit, 2003

Synopsis

Robert Jordan's epic fantasy saga The Wheel of Time is now firmly established as a classic of the genre and a world-wide bestseller. Now the series continues with the eagerly-awaited tenth volume ...

Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must fight on against the Dark One in a struggle that has drawn an entire world into its vortex - claiming the souls of friends and enemies alike.

He has cleansed the taint of madness from the male half of the True Source, so may now draw on its power as a weapon of awesome potential. This could tip the balance in a perilous battle against evil as Rand must gamble with himself at stake. He cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies - even among lifelong companions.

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Review:

With Crossroads of Twilight, Jordan's gargantuan fantasy sequence The Wheel of Time reaches its tenth huge volume and hits some of the consequences of its own sheer scale. Jordan is running so many story lines--the struggle with the covert agents of evil, the creation of a male magic that is not polluted, the war with magic-using dragon-riders from across the sea, the adventures of a travelling circus--that he has to spend almost all of this book just keeping us in touch with the movements of his characters and how they are getting on.

This is a book with a fair amount of incident, but nothing you could really call a climax. One of Jordan's strengths has always been his ability to send things off at interesting and imaginative tangents, revealing that his is a stranger world than we have begun to know--there is not enough of that here, and rather too much in the way of confrontations and kidnappings and dilemmas of conscience that recapitulate things he has done before. His decent, lumbering "grey" style means that there are no moments when the writing thrills us either--this is a book for those who have committed to Jordan's sequence for the long haul rather than one for new readers to sample. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal (NEW YORK TIMES)

Epic in every sense (SUNDAY TIMES)

On very rare occasions, very talented storytellers create worlds that are beyond fantasy; worlds that become realities. Robert Jordan has (MORGAN LLYWELYN)

A powerful vision of good and evil (ORSON SCOTT CARD)

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1841491837
• ISBN 13: 9781841491837
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 832