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The Fires of Heaven > Chapter 47-50 Book 5

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This bickering between the two wamen is inflated pages.

Though the situation is actualyfunny. Masema's people started a fight with the Children over a ship, which both want for Team C, this escalated wuickly, and now it is an all-out civil war.
And probably this is why a book ago we had that personality-swap. So there IS some pre-planning, it just done in the sidenotes, and not worked on, or thought through, or like anything.

I assume the wholecircus-nonsense was because of some timing-issue, but without any forshadowing (as usual), I just can't see why, so those hundreds of pages feel a waste.

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A whole chapter to saying goodbye, while we did so in the previous chapter. That's stupid.

Half-thoughts. That's what we have here. RJ starts a sentence/action/thought, but we never get to th end. Like takes out - from what. adds the sum oof spending - what is the result (compared to the 100 gold)? Etc.
And no, it doesn't halp that 5-10-20 pages later things get cleared, as that's an other scene, and we moved on - confused.

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NyanNyan-cat is offended because in the whole wilde world found a man, who is like any member of the red ajah. "How dare you...!" Fok off, Ninive.
And because how little happens in these books, and how harshly divided the world at this point, this leaves a mark of sexism on the whole of it, a bad taste of mouth tainting the whole WoT.

In a character-driven story this would be a good chapter. It is inconsequential to the plot, but that wouldn't be a necessity. Too bad we have no story.
And of course where RJ describes nonames' backstory is just utter nonsense. Why is it there? To create artificial emotions? It doesn't work, because it is artificial. And we need no more characters. And this is done in exposition, not in any meaningful way.

Oh, yes, yes, yes, RJ pushes on our neck new characters! Just fuck you.

Uhm, how do Team C both enter the Dreamworld? Even using the blacks stolen tangreals 3 locations are not possible. Those two thingy were binded to visit one-one fixed place. RJ forgot. Forgot again.

And wassis? A tangral that requires magic to work? That's not how these work.

Rand created the Freemasonry.
And while it is nice and dandy, doesn't answer the question how he solved the political situation.

Team C gets on shore - beats me exactly where, and why in the middle of nowhere, not even mentioning a city. The appendix-map really works against this scenario, given distance-comparsion from Emondsfield to Baerlon, also between Samara and Boannda, and the number and placement of settlements and rivers.

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Oh, ye, a quick reminder the aes sedai is a fascist organization. Rigid, hierarchical, past-whorshipping cretins who are full of themselves. Oh, and they are function-less, nonfunctional hoarders. No wonder they have financial troubles already. You have the greatest resource at your whim, and can't make money of it. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Instead they rob their own members with the threat of shoveling them in the back yard, like a true christian from Acts.

What? The guhrls spilled the beans on Birgitte? Oh, ye, almost forgot, conistency is for the dogs.

O,h this Seal got broken. 4 down, 2 at Moiraine, 1 at unkown location.

So, Ninive will discover how to turn back isolation from the Force.

Why Ninive doesn't tuck her hair in this volume?

This "ho can be Rand's 3rd waifu" is ridiculous. We perectly know who that is, no need to play this "wh can it be".
And still and again I'll note, polygamy in the human race is a bad idea.
I think I just realised what's this three-wives thing. In the Bible most people have 2 wives (and 2 slaves-to-rape), so 3 wives would be like being superman! If you are idoctrinated enough in the sect's way. If not, it is unfair, thus immoral.


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