By far the weakest book in this series, with some major flaws mostly surrounding the small length of this book and a severe lack of compelling plot.

The events in the novel take place roughly twenty years before the beginning of The Eye of the World. Four years ago, I fell in love with Wheel of Time and read all 15 volumes in less than three months. For the main series, I generally excuse the slow pacing and repetitive nature of most of the books as it is such a long series and the payoff, especially in the last few books is so worth it considering the amount of foreshadowing that there is and the worldbuilding is just absolutely top notch. There is no official recommendation from Jordan on this, however, and, at least anecdotally, readers starting with New Spring don't seem to have been negatively affected. If you want a comparison, Dragon Reborn’s and his companions' journey is quite similar in its ‘epicness’ with the one of Frodo’s, only more elaborate.Proof, should he have required it, that the Dark One grows powerful once more and that his minions are at work throughout the lands. Just thinking about how rare these trees have become in the m Then there is this book, where you have Moiraine and Siuan talking about boys and profusely blushing which was just so strange. The only thing that I appreciated in this first half of the book is FINALLY seeing what the test to become a full sister looked like.

Lan, Bukama and Ryne immediately go to the Aesdaishar Palace where they meet Brys, Prince-Consort to Queen Ethenielle of Kandor. NewSpring has been investing exclusively in this nuanced space for 20+ years, and our expertise extends across a range of transaction types and evolving industries. It doesn’t commit most of the prequel cardinal sins, which is good; but it also doesn’t feel like it justifies its own existence. New Spring” is mostly set around Moiraine and Siuan Sanche (who starts out the later books as Amyrlin, head of the Aes Sedai) when they are young apprentices (or ‘Accepted’).The learning platform we used previously was not stable, something that caused us a lot of problems. No really between Mat and Tylin, Rand and Elayne while the other women and Birgetta could feel what was going on, Lan and Myrelle (even though we never see it. The city that greets Al’Lan Mandragoran, exiled king of Malkier and the finest swordsman of his generation, is instead one that is rife with rumour and the whisperings of Shadowspawn. Otherwise, it essentially feels like reading a story after already having read a terse plot summary.