Double book review

Alright, going to do something different and do two reviews at once. The books in question are "The Gathering Storm" and "The Towers of Midnight," which were originally intended to be one book. They are 12 and 13 in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and the first two written by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan's death. They are amazing reads and probably my favourites of the series so far.

I won't try and explain the plots or what happens, but the tension that has been building for most of the last 3 books at least is finally resolved in a wonderful matter. I was actually surprised by some of the occurrences and the style it was written in was fantastic. Sanderson's writing is obviously different from Jordan's, but I thought that it flowed much better. Sanderson jumped between characters more often, which made it easier to remember who was where doing what, where, and with whom. The convergence of characters added to the sense of release as well as serving to build more tension for Tarmon Gai'don. Overall, they were a fantastic pair of books that really highlighted the skill of Sanderson as a storyteller and of Jordan's epic tale. Two thumbs way up above the clouds.

That is not to say that the books were perfect. The only real complain that I had was the chronology of the story was all messed up. In "Towers" particularlly, the story jumped back and forth in time with jumps between character. It was a almost impossible to tell what was happening when. It had me really screaming and pulling my hair out at times. Because the story was so enrapturing. I'm not sure if it was the author's fault or the editors, but that was the only real complaint I had at all.

Now comes the hard part. After over a year of reading, 13 books, and many dollars down, I finally have caught up in the series and have to wait 10 months till the next book comes out. lol Not the longest I've waited for a book in a series, but still, a bit frustrating. lol AT the same time, something to look forward to.