Steve Wrenn
Critical Failures III
After a slight slowdown from the crass jokes from the last book, this book is back to making me laugh so hard it hurts. I don’t dare try the audiobook since I’m afraid I’d have a car accident! I liked seeing how the in-character characters worked out in the real world. I’m not sure how much I bought into the real-world characters buying the fantasy characters, but since we have magic here, I suppose it works. I like the off-color, crass humor. I appreciate that they didn’t leave it on another seemingly obvious ending just to dismiss it later, but at the same time, they changed things up at the end, so it’s not the same plotline again for another book. Looking forward to the next book!
After a slight slowdown from the crass jokes from the last book, this book is back to making me laugh so hard it hurts. I don’t dare try the audiobook since I’m afraid I’d have a car accident! I liked seeing how the in-character characters worked out in the real world. I’m not sure how much I bought into the real-world characters buying the fantasy characters, but since we have magic here, I suppose it works. I like the off-color, crass humor. I appreciate that they didn’t leave it on another seemingly obvious ending just to dismiss it later, but at the same time, they changed things up at the end, so it’s not the same plotline again for another book. Looking forward to the next book!
The Dragon Reborn is an excellent third book in the series. Seeing the group split and the different directions the characters take, while they all ultimately reconvene at the end, is interesting. This is kinda what was done in book 2, and I hope the series breaks from this moving forward to avoid being formulaic, but only time will tell.
It’s good to see the girls develop separate personalities and experience conflict, although the hair-tugging aspect was a bit odd. I began to wonder if that was how she channeled her magic. The intrigue in the tower shows that it’s not a very safe place, and I suspect we’ll see that other Aes Sedai have been turned to the Black Ajah. I like that they have obvious wishes for revenge against several of the people who have wronged them, and they struggle not to enact that vengeance, especially since Nynaeve is especially prone to having a hot temper.
I’m also glad to see Mat back on his feet after pretty much an entire book lying down, waiting to die. It’s almost like Jordan didn’t know what to do with him, and so he put him on the back burner.
Rand is going crazy, but this needs to be slowed down if this is gonna last 10 more books. I don’t know how many were planned at this point, but the burn rate seems to be kind of fast. Are they going to fight a new Forsaken in each book? In some ways, he’s the least interesting character since he has plot armor and we kinda already know the outline of how it’s going to end, even if we don’t know specifics yet. I’m glad the story focused more on other characters and hope that Rand’s thread can become more interesting later.
Overall, a great third book, can’t wait to start the fourth installment!
The Dragon Reborn is an excellent third book in the series. Seeing the group split and the different directions the characters take, while they all ultimately reconvene at the end, is interesting. This is kinda what was done in book 2, and I hope the series breaks from this moving forward to avoid being formulaic, but only time will tell.
It’s good to see the girls develop separate personalities and experience conflict, although the hair-tugging aspect was a bit odd. I began to wonder if that was how she channeled her magic. The intrigue in the tower shows that it’s not a very safe place, and I suspect we’ll see that other Aes Sedai have been turned to the Black Ajah. I like that they have obvious wishes for revenge against several of the people who have wronged them, and they struggle not to enact that vengeance, especially since Nynaeve is especially prone to having a hot temper.
I’m also glad to see Mat back on his feet after pretty much an entire book lying down, waiting to die. It’s almost like Jordan didn’t know what to do with him, and so he put him on the back burner.
Rand is going crazy, but this needs to be slowed down if this is gonna last 10 more books. I don’t know how many were planned at this point, but the burn rate seems to be kind of fast. Are they going to fight a new Forsaken in each book? In some ways, he’s the least interesting character since he has plot armor and we kinda already know the outline of how it’s going to end, even if we don’t know specifics yet. I’m glad the story focused more on other characters and hope that Rand’s thread can become more interesting later.
Overall, a great third book, can’t wait to start the fourth installment!
