@hybridhavoc@darkfriend.social Keeping a promise to share my thoughts on wheel of time periodically!
If anyone reading this hasn’t read it, there will be spoilers up to where I am in the books!
According to my audiobook app I am 42% through the great hunt, the second wheel of time book.
So far I am enjoying it a lot more than the eye of the world. Having time with the characters has helped a lot. I often found myself getting annoyed by the 3 main boys in the first book and the decisions they made. However, when the audio of the first book finished, there was an interview with Robert Jordan I listened to. I began to understand kind of the whole point of the books (at least as he said when this was recorded) was that the “chosen ones” really just had 0 interest in being any of that. With that in mind, I began to be less annoyed by the decisions Rand and the others would make.
I do have to say, I got very apprehensive when the concept of parallel universe things got introduced. Where I’m at Rand and the others just got back to their world, so I still don’t know a ton. But with so much media these days having multiverses and parallel universes, my knee jerk reaction was definitely an eye roll. But we’ll see how it plays out. I know the books are beloved, and I’ve really enjoyed them so far, so I’m optimistic.
Excited to keep listening!
The Wheel of Time is a great ride, I always love hearing new readers’ thoughts!
The Great Hunt is, maybe weirdly, one of my favorites in the series. Everything is still new and innocent, and the characters (and the reader!) are just discovering the wider world. Glad to hear you’re enjoying the series!
I can understand that. There’s still so much I don’t know. Through most of the first book I was very much like, you know it’s good but I didn’t think it was too special. But then things started opening up at the end and I’m pretty hooked now. Things are still so mysterious and that’s the kind of stuff that really gets me to want to continue listening!