Reddit reviews Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time, Book 10)

The Wheel of Time Book 10 of the series.

Loved the first 6 in the series, but Robert Jordan started mailing them in after that. I feel invested in the characters and just want to see this one through. It's taken 2 months so far with something like 6-7 other books read every time I bog down.

Was it book 10 that took place over one or two days? That was bloody awful although it did spawn the funniest Amazon book review I ever read.. I'm re-reading the series and will be missing that one out.

Edited to add book review: http://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Twilight-Wheel-Time-Book/dp/0812571339

I love some of the Amazon comments about Crossroads of Twilight. They're hilarious!

The next book is certainly an improvement, but it doesn't really make up for having grain weevils as the main villain of book 10 (The reviews on Amazon are a great read).

I do not recommend the Wheel of Time series. Its late author, Robert Jordan, was extremely inventive and possessed remarkable creativity, but his writing style is long-winded and tedious, his characters---of whom there are far, far too many, most of them minor and impossible to track---tend to be either boring or annoying, and he drew out the series for far, far, far too long. The series went on for twice as long as it should have, and it is my belief that Jordan dragged it out as long as possible simply because he wanted the money. It went to 14 books when it could have been much, much better told in half that long, and indeed it stretched out so long that Jordan died before completing, at which point it was taken over by Brandon Sanderson, himself a remarkably long-winded fellow.

I personally stopped reading at the 10th novel, the widely-panned Crossroads of Twilight. It remains, to this day, the very worst book I have ever completed. Jordan managed to end the 9th novel of the series on a very compelling note, and fans (myself included) were excited to see what would happen next. In the event, we were treated to 850 pages of mind-numbing, insipid nonsense that neither addressed the events of the previous book nor advanced the plot in the least bit. The most entertaining thing to come of this monstrosity was the avalanche of brutal reviews that it continues, to this day, to receive on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Twilight-Wheel-Time-Book/product-reviews/0812571339/ref=dpx_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1). It was a huge, money-grabbing insult to those of us who had read nearly 10,000 pages of the series thus far, and I was one of many who gave up on Robert Jordan as a result. Indeed, I was so brutally alienated from the series that not until a decade later did I care to log onto the Wheel of Time wiki and read how the series had ended.

If you don't mind tedium and you've got a lot of patience, give WoT a shot. But I caution you very well may come away disappointed after investing a ton of time in the series. In my opinion, Wheel of Time will give you just about the least bang for your buck possible; there are many fantasy series out there that'll give you more content in a much shorter span, plus much less irritation.

I'll join some others here in recommending the Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist.

There were a lot of words, but nothing happened. Book 10 is almost universally panned by critics and series fans alike. 1,600 one-star reviews on Amazon (and the top one is hilarious).

If the first book were written like book 10, the series never would have found a publisher.