Riyria Revelations
Theft of Swords
I came for the thieves. The friendship is why I would stay.
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Between the covers.
The people who make a world matter. The passages that earn their place. And the parts I wish had been better.
Later-volume reviews assume you know the books before them.28 entries in the journal
Riyria Revelations
Rise of Empire
The easy job is gone. So is the safety of staying uninvolved.
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The Wheel of Time
The Eye of the World
The most interesting thing about leaving home is who refuses to leave it behind.
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The Wheel of Time
The Great Hunt
Rand can run from a title. He cannot stop people seeing it in him.
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The Wheel of Time
The Dragon Reborn
A book named for Rand becomes more interesting by stepping away from him.
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The Wheel of Time
The Shadow Rising
The past stops being decoration and starts changing what the present means.
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The Wheel of Time
The Fires of Heaven
Being right about the danger does not make Rand easier to follow.
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The Wheel of Time
Lord of Chaos
Everyone wants access to Rand. Very few want to understand him.
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The Wheel of Time
A Crown of Swords
A crowded middle chapter with flashes of real intimacy.
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The Wheel of Time
The Path of Daggers
Power behaves badly when people mistake possession for mastery.
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The Wheel of Time
Crossroads of Twilight
The weakest kind of suspense is waiting for a story to catch up with itself.
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The Wheel of Time
Knife of Dreams
The scattered stories begin remembering where they are going.
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The Wheel of Time
The Gathering Storm
Rand’s crisis and Egwene’s resolve give this volume two very different centers.
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The Wheel of Time
Towers of Midnight
Before the last battle, there are still personal debts to settle.
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The Wheel of Time
New Spring
Before Moiraine was a certainty to others, she had to live with uncertainty herself.
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The Licanius Trilogy
The Shadow of What Was Lost
The familiar beginning is a door, not a promise about where this story will go.
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The Licanius Trilogy
An Echo of Things to Come
Knowing more makes Caeden’s problem harder, not easier.
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The Licanius Trilogy
The Light of All That Falls
The puzzle has an answer. The better question is what that answer costs.
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The Faithful and the Fallen
Malice
Corban’s ordinary loyalties make the coming danger worth caring about.
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The Faithful and the Fallen
Valour
Loyalty becomes much harder to admire when it points in the wrong direction.
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The Faithful and the Fallen
Ruin
Hope feels more convincing here because it has so little room left.
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The Faithful and the Fallen
Wrath
The final reckoning belongs to the friendships as much as the prophecy.
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Beyond the series
The Blacktongue Thief
Kinch talks like a man trying to stay one joke ahead of the truth.
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Beyond the series
The Goblin Emperor
Maia’s kindness is not a lack of political intelligence. It is the beginning of one.
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The Stormlight Archive · Book 1
The Way of Kings
The world is enormous. Kaladin’s smallest acts of care are what make it matter.
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