sorry, when i said "reviews" i meant amateur ones by fans of the books. in addition, i read some statement from RJ, and now i regret it. he wrote a bit about how people just don't understand what kind of a fix the Good Guys are in, and how successful the Bad Guys have been to date, and how bad things are looking for the good guys.
my immediate reaction was something like "so you are admitting then that you have done a really bad job in setting the scene as you see it?". i have trouble thinking that anything bad is going to happen in Randland, ever. perhaps this is because after ten goddamn books no-one important & good ever dies in a permanent way, and because evil's grand schemes are always undone just in time when Rand et al bumble onto the scene and magically pull a victory out of their ass.
by contrast, i've been reading George R R Martin's Song of Ice & Fire series lately. people die
all the time. main characters that you love die, because that is what happens when bad shit goes down: people die. maybe it's spoiled my ideas of what fantasy should be or something, maybe i just like the darker works now
but anyways, i am being too negative. perhaps others who are still enjoying the series will like this one, also.
