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Winter's Heart (Wheel of Time) (Hardcover)

by Robert Jordan (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (101 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 640 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (9 Nov 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857239849
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857239843
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 5.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (101 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 91,302 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" sequence is one of the more ambitious current fantasy epics; its ninth volume Winter's Heart advances a conclusion by fundamentally changing the rules of its war between overwhelming evil and deeply crippled good. Rand Al-Thor, in some sense a doomed hero born again, continues to travel the world seeking allies--as before, he finds himself caught up disastrously in the local politics of small city states and has to sort them out at some cost to himself. His fellow villagers--now the paladins of his crusade--deal with their own local problems; the agents of evil are abroad everywhere and have started to take this coterie of magically gifted youths seriously as a threat to their power and the return of their Dark master. The well-intentioned but over-reaching Aes Sedai nuns have started at last to deal with the infiltrators in their midst, and the invading Seanchan start to pursue goals beyond their strange cultural games of dominance and submission. And now Rand finally does something drastic--he attempts to cleanse male magic of the taint of madness that has crippled his world. Jordan's many fans will be enthralled by this latest volume. --Roz Kaveney

NEW YORK TIMES
'Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal'

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A little Shaky during the middle but what an ending!, 5 Jan 2002
This review is from: Winter's Heart (Wheel of Time) (Paperback)
Once again Jordan has served up a brilliantly involving novel, however is he straying off the beaten path? With many other fantasy novels, which do not compare to Jordan's series, I often find myself skim reading some pages which are largely irrevelant, never before have i done this with The Wheel of Time Series, until now. He has unravelled a large ball of strings and unfortunatly has not yet begun to tie knots in the end, for example the Seanchen, their invasion force should have been delt with throughly in this book, instead they are still left resting for another book. Overall i'm afraid that this story was rather drawn out, for example Matts marriage to the Daughter of the Nine Moons. The reader knew it was going to happen for most of the novel however it wasn't revealed to Matt untill the end.

During this book Jordan failed to offer as much as he did in other novels, getting bogged down in politics and as one otehr reviewer said clothes design. However he did make up with it by a fantastic ending which no doubt reaffirmed every readers love affair with the story.

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars slightly better than books 7 & 8, 25 Oct 2001
I wasn't very anxious to get started on this, after the disappointments of the previous volumes, but when I had finally exhausted the pile of 'books to read' there was only this one left. And it's not as bad as I expected. The story moves on again, after the stalling in book eight, and some questions are answered. Still, there are some serious flawes. One of them is that, apart from Rand, Mat & Min, everyone has turned into an arsehole. It's very hard to feel sympathy towards any of the characters other than the three mentioned.

Furthermore there are now so many Aes Sedai, Wise Ones & Windfinders going around that I've completely lost track of them. Far too many names, and they're all exactly the same anyway: stubborn and annoying old women, cardboard figures who can be forgotten as soon as you've finished the chapter they appear in.

The witches are also the main reason this story fails to get to the point. If they managed to listen to each other and the men for a change the whole of Randland would have been ready for Tarmon Gaidon by now. Instead they all 'look like steel & talk like stone' and achieve nothing. But maybe that's the point RJ is trying to make: A world run by scheming women is a mess. The thing is, that's not what I want to read. I started on this series because I expected good fantasy fiction, and for six volumes I wasn't disappointed. Now it's all become long descriptions of petty politics. But if I'd wanted to learn about politics I would have bought Macchiavelli.

RJ is capable of five-star writing, we've seen that at the start of the series, if this is his first step on the way back to that level of writing, let's hope book ten will be a bigger step.

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Wheel of Never Ending Time, 18 Jun 2002
This review is from: Winter's Heart (Wheel of Time) (Paperback)
Throughout history there have been many examples of an author or artist dying before they could complete their great work or masterpiece. There have been none however where the entire audience of an artist has died before the work could be completed. In The Wheel of Time, Mr.Jordan may well set this precedent.

I cannot remember when exactly I began reading this epic, it was certainly not in this millennia (ok, that's harsh). So far, with the exception of Path of Daggers I have enjoyed every word, every chapter but even now the whirl of new characters appear and disappear as quickly as my hopes of ever finding an end to this saga. It confuses me to the point where I have to read each book twice before I can move on to the next. The plot has become so convoluted that it truly will be a work of genius for Mr. Jordan to extricate himself from the levels of complexity he has built up over 10 years of writing to finally bring our heroes and heroines to their final glory. Even if poor old Rand will ever survives the final encounter with the Dark Lord, he will surely be up in court for bigamy.

Hurry up Robert, they are never going to make a film of it so we readers are all you've got !!

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4.0 out of 5 stars An interlude in the rough patch of books
I think this books is actually pretty good. I think it unfairly gets lumped alongside books 7,8 and 10 and is omitted from the "golden group" of books 1-6. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Robert Dodds

3.0 out of 5 stars Some positive aspects, but fails to address the fundamental problems with the series
After the thoroughly disappointing Path of Daggers, expectations for Winter's Heart were mixed. Maybe Robert Jordan had written the weak book that all series seem obligated to... Read more
Published 7 months ago by A. Whitehead

5.0 out of 5 stars Picaresque
This is not a stand alone book,but if you have been following the story from the beginning you care about the characters and in this book simply continue to delight in the... Read more
Published 16 months ago by E. Ramaniah

4.0 out of 5 stars There's no pleasing some people
What amazes me more each time I read a new review for these books is how dead set against the later 5 books some readers seem to be. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2006 by R. Brownsword

2.0 out of 5 stars Truly as cold as the title
There came a point, upon beginning book number 10 of this cumbersome series(don't worry, I wont give away any of the plot), that I had to stop and ask myself What happened in the... Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2006 by A J Martin

1.0 out of 5 stars Next please.....
If you have read the preceding couple of books you will know what to expect: shawls are twitched, glares are hard/flat/augers, women will be unable to understand men and men will... Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2006 by Martin Anderson

2.0 out of 5 stars Book 9
Having read up to and including book8, I've got disappointed with the series as a whole. I feel that whilst the series has some excellent characters and story lines it could and... Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2005 by Rich Daniels

5.0 out of 5 stars Back on Form
After a dissapointing 8th book(A Path of Daggers), this is a welcome return to Robert Jordans amazing writing. Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2005

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book - explosive climax!
I've heard people say that 'A Crown of Swords' was the last great Wheel of Time book. While I admit that 'The Path of Daggers' was a disappointed, 'Winter's Heart' is a treat... Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2004 by Liam

1.0 out of 5 stars Far too long - will this series ever end
Books 1 - 6 were excellent, but from book 7 onwards Jordan has been adding additional uncalled for and unwanted plots. Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2004 by danmcgeehan

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