May Likes TorontoMan, the wheel of time is such a slog. Just finished book 10 and that was 600 pages of setting up for action.
I'm deeply invested at this point and I can't convince myself to walk away with only 5 books remaining.
samir, a terminally deprecated method@mayintoronto I hate to say it, but it gets better when Sanderson takes over.
And book 10 is definitely the sloggiest of slogs. Even book 11 is better.
Dave Alvarado@samir @mayintoronto this is 100% correct. Jordan completely lost his way, Sanderson brought it all back together.
It says something about how lost Jordan was that it took three books to bring the series across the finish line.
@dave @mayintoronto IIRC Jordan and Sanderson worked extensively on the outline and plot together; they both knew it would be 3 more books when he passed away.
So I think I’d argue that Jordan got lost, and Jordan + Sanderson brought it back.