The Shadow Rising

I'm going to do a dedicated review for this on my YouTube channel, so I won't get too far into this review.

This book definitely made up for how much I disliked the last one in the series. The plot didn't drag like the last one, and I feel like we got some good character development throughout. This one so far is probably the best one of the series plot-wise.

However, we still had some annoying things. There is so much stuff that is repeated throughout, i.e. someone not understand people of another gender, or Nynaeve tugging her braid, or making it abundantly clear how much weaker women are than men physically. It all got very tedious and annoying. Every time one of these phrases came up, I just rolled my eyes. It was nonstop. Also, since there's so many characters in this book, Jordan tries to give them all some distinguishing mannerism or trait so we remember who he's talking about, but at some point, it gets to just feel like all of the side characters are 2 dimensional.

Complaints aside, I actually did really enjoy the plot and lore of this book. We got to explore the Aiel a lot more and that was great. Overall, a good book with some annoying writing mixed in.

TW: attempted murder, blood, bones, death, decapitation, violence