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Reviews emphasize urgent battle scenes, richly woven evil and danger embedded within a promise of salvation, and the compelling unpredictability of events. Commentators praise the depth and consistency of characters, world-building, and the systems of power, along with vivid imagery, comic relief, dense symbolic chapters, and sustained narrative grandeur.","Praise for the  \nTHE WHEEL OF TIME®  \n“The battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience, and the . . . evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation, the sense of the unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three decades.”  \n—The New York Times  \n“Has all the breadth and depth that have made this fantasy author one of the acknowledged greats of the genre .”  \n—Publishers Weekly“His writing is distinguished . . . by the richness of its fabric, with all the charm and naïveté of the Brothers Grimm and the social/moral commentary of Huxley’s Brave New World. With his well-fleshed-out characters, dark imagery, comic relief, vivid landscapes, and a fascinating sense of timelessness, Jordan has created a complex literature with a language and reality all its own .”  \n—BookPage“Throughout Jordan’s preeminent high-fantasy saga . . . the characters (minor as well as major), the world, and the source of powers have remained remarkably rich and consistent—no mean feat. . . . Amid all the Sturm und Drang, however, is a finely tuned comic strain that both leavens the story and adds to its development. A major fantasy epic.”  \n—Booklist  \n“Truth is not only stranger, it’s richer than fiction, but Jordan’s fictional universe approaches the variety and complexity of the real. . . . Plotlines [are] strummed with resonating long-wave rhythms something like Beethoven’s Eroica.”  \n—Robert Knox, MPG Newspapers  \n“Adventure and mystery and dark things that move in the night—a combination of Robin Hood and Stephen King that is hard to resist. Furthermore, Jordan makes the reader put down the book regretting the wait for the next title in the series.”  \n—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  \n“The Wheel of Time [is] rapidly becoming the definitive American fantasy saga. It is a fantasy tale seldom equaled and still less often surpassed in English.”  \n—Chicago Sun-Times“In the decades since J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was published, many fantasy writers have tried to capture the spirit of that seminal work. While many have been able to imitate the style, develop a similarly swift and complex plot, and create convincing characters, none have captured the spirit of small men and mighty, struggling against a force of overwhelming evil. Robert Jordan has.”  \n—Ottawa Citizen  \n“Jordan has a powerful vision of good and evil—but what strikes me as most [pleasurable . . . is](pleasurable . . . is) all the fascinating people moving through a rich and interesting world.”  \n—Orson Scott Card  \n“Jordan can always be counted on to ground his dizzying intrigues in solid chunks of cultural detail, and he here rises to the occasion, with chapters as dense as Spenserian stanzas with symbols and rituals. . . . He manipulates the disorder of his narrative to credibly convey a sense of an embattled world on the verge of selfdestruction, and he entertainingly juxtaposes the courtly civility of his villains with the precarious chaos they cause .”  \n—Publishers Weekly  \n“Jordan continues to utilize his towering imagination to construct plots of incredible ingenuity and develop themes hidden, sometimes  \nquite deeply, in earlier installments. As ever, Jordan writes intelligently and lyrically—one of the most literary exponents of the  \n”  \ngenre .  \n—SFX  \n“Beware, there is magic in these books. They are liable to make you neglect your work and keep you up way past your bedtime. . . . This is the genuine article.”  \n—John Lee, The Su folk County News  \n“Jordan’s bestselling high-fantasy series carries on . . . colossal, dauntingly complex storytelling . . . the narrative employs elements of realism rare in high fantasy.”  \n—Publishers Weekly (starred review)  \n“Jordan’s characters [are] fleshed out with the strengths and weaknesses of real men and women . . . . 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