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Welcome back once again to Reading The Wheel of Time! We have finally come to the climactic climax at Cairhien (how’s that for alliteration?) which means a lot of choices that people have been struggling with. Mat has to confront what his leaving Rand means for the fight. Egwene and Aviendha have to honor their commitment to using the One Power in battle, despite the rules that govern both Aes Sedai and Wise Ones. And Rand has to face the consequences at the end of the road Couladin’s usurpation attempt has led him down. Recapping battles is very hard, as it turns out, and this battle has...

Welcome back to Reading the Wheel of Time! This week we’re covering Chapter 41 and 42, in which Rand is a very important man who has a tower, Lan gets sneaky, and Mat protests entirely too much. Oh, and he does some cool battle planning stuff too. Chapter 41 opens with Rand standing on a hilltop and surveying the three camps below him. One is Tairen, while the other two are Cairhienin, separated into cavalry and infantry. They are all the Tairen and Cairhienin forces at his disposal, and too many are not actually soldiers. The city of Cairhien itself lay little more than five miles to the w...

It’s hard to believe we’re already on part 22 of The Fires of Heaven. It’s difficult to judge the pacing of a book when you’re only reading it a few chapters at a time and then pausing to muse over it for days, but there is definitely a density to The Fires of Heaven; I always finish these posts with the sense that I forgot a few important themes or plot points that I wanted to address, or that I’ve missed something that is going to be important later in the story. Speaking of missing things, I’m so excited to see some Shienarans again! I find Masema a fascinating character, and...

Recapping, am I right? This week’s rather lengthy installment of Reading The Wheel of Time covers Chapter 30-32, which includes Aviendha choosing not to run anymore, Rand doing a lot of off-the-cuff channeling, sex, the Seanchan, and yet another reminder that Rand needs to be “hard” when it comes to being a leader, both with his allies and his enemies. Oh, and we also have perhaps the greatest romance trope of all time, the old “we have to share body heat or we’ll die.” I mean, the fanfic basically writes itself, doesn’t it? It’s kind of fun to see that in some ways, R.J. was ...