The Fires Of Heaven (Wheel of Time, #5)

by Robert Jordan

[HekArtemis]

5 stars for nostalgia, 3.5 stars otherwise. This has some great scenes in it and some great story lines. It has Birgitte, Mat is really starting to come into his own, Lews is beginning to pop up, Rand is making plans, there is Moghedien and Asmodean, and that scene with Moiraine, you know which one. The women are still bloody awful though, not that I expect that to go away - in fact I know it is going to get worse, we haven't even met Cadsuane yet. The interactions between Egwene, Elayne, and Nynaeve were pretty horrible in this one though. Wow. I had been thinking, you know while the women are a bit awful altogether, at least there is only minimal women-hating-women in the books - I guess I forgot about this book lol. Well, I suppose they will get over it soon enough, but we have all sorts of Berelain fun to look forward to. Ugh.

I don't like books that force women to be subservient, I love strong women - and there is a difference between strong women and women who are made to fit stereotypes that were created to justify the existence of the Scold's Bridle. So while I like the change in a certain female character in this book, I didn't like how the change was made. If only she could have just become... normal. Why one extreme or the other? Why not just human? Sigh.

On the plus side.... Dumai's Wells is coming.