This book is a very good book in from (Robert Jordan). It is a fun book for the first word to the last word. If you like this kind of sciences fiction/ fantastic books, then I will recommend that you will want to read this collection of books.

I really wanted to love this book. Some of the previous books were a little slow, but I still enjoyed them. This one did not do it for me. If you dig deep, some important information is passed along, and a few events of significance take place, but not enough to justify an entire novel. Everything of importance in here could have been worked into the subsequent book on a much smaller scale. When I did my traditional reread of the series prior to the Knife of Dreams release, I skimmed it, but did not bother reading it. It was not worth my time. I think the great tragedy is that if Robert Jordan had back the years spent on this book, he might have come close to completing the series before he passed on.

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Crossroads of Twilight was maddening. I read it years ago and ended up giving up on The Wheel of Time after this book. I tried again in my preparation for reading Memory of Light, and I just couldn't manage to do it again. So, as with Winter's Heart, I cheated by reading many of the chapter summaries at Encyclopaedia WOT. I skimmed the chapters involving Perrin's hunt for Faile because I remembered how slow, grueling, and painful they were when I read them the first time. And even though about 25% of the novel was about this storyline, it did not advance at all. I also skimmed a lot of Elayne's campaigning and dealing with the constantly whining Sea Folk because not much happened here, either. There were only two chapters (out of 30) from Rand's point of view. Mat was entertaining, but he didn't get anywhere either.

In Crossroads of Twilight, expect more politicking, planning, negotiating, committee discussions, bathing, dressing, shopping, and description of tapestries and seating arrangements than action. THE PLOT DOES NOT MOVE. There were very few significant occurrences -- mostly the characters just talked to themselves and others. Only one major event happened, and that occurred in the last 3 minutes (on audio).

Here is a sample of some of the pulse-pounding action you'll encounter in Crossroads of Twilight:

"'I see,' Egwene said slowly. She realized she was massaging the side of her head. The throb behind her eyes beat on. It would grow stronger. It always did. By nightfall, she was going to regret having sent Halima away. Bringing her hand down firmly, she moved the leather folder in front of her a half inch to the left, then slid it back."

Riveting... But at least we didn't have to hear about Nynaeve's braid...

There are 1880 characters in The Wheel of Time and it's impossible for anyone whose not writing a dissertation on the series to keep them all straight. It doesn't help that so many of the names are similar, either. At this point, many of them are all just a big jumble and you have to use a resource like Encyclopaedia WOT (who have all 1880 characters listed, described, and tracked) to even begin to understand all of the politicking. It also doesn't help that Jordan made occasional mistakes along the way (nicely pointed out by Encyclopaedia WOT).

If it weren't for Brandon Sanderson's finale, I would absolutely give up at this point (I did once). By the way, let me say here and now (March 2009), for the record, that I don't believe Mr. Sanderson will be able to clean up this mess with only one volume.

I started "reading" this series of books about 2 weeks before Robert Jordan passed away. At that time I was on the second book and was disappointed that he wouldn't be finishing the story. I've however been more and more disappointed with the books since the 5th book and can barely stomach them now. I will continue to "read" them, actually audiobooks for me, until they're completed by B.Sanderson, the new author assigned to the story, in the hopes that he will be able to pull it all together. There are FAAAAARRRR too many useless, uninteresting characters and plotlines in this series. I think that someone could abridge the whole series to date into 3-4 decent books that would be more cohesive and better reading.