Kris’ Book Reviews

I wasn’t happy with the first book of the famous “The Wheel of Time” series, but I said to myself, that one more book and that’s it.The plot starts after the ‘killing’ the Ba’alzamon, which of course, isn’t dead (the series spans quite a few books, so what I have expected?), Rand and his friends stay in Fal Dara fortress. Along with theme there is a prisoner Padan Fain, which in the previous book occur to be controlled by the Evil One (at least partly). But all good things end quickly, and Fain is rescued by Darkfriends and Shadowspawn, taking the Horn of Valere and Matt’s strange knife (without which he will die soon).

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I heard a lot about Kay’s work, some bad, but mostly good things, and now it is time to write what I think of one of his books.The books story takes place on a Palm Peninsula, formerly divided into small countries, but 15 years before the main action of Tigana, the Palm was invaded by two sorcerers, eventually splitting the Peninsula in half. One of the sorcerers is Alberico a warlord from Barbadior empire, and the other is Brandin, the king of Ygrath.

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