This is NOT a review of the Wheel of Time books. I suppose you can call it a reaction blog... For it is a collection of my live reactions and thoughts to reading the Wheel of Times series for the first time.
The thoughts were originally shared on Twitter and have now been collected here for everyone's convenience. These are my full reactions from the third Wheel of Time book, with some post-read writerly thoughts at the very end.
To gain better understanding of what this is all about, please refer to this blog.
This time, I divided my readings up into days. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Let's get on with it.
The Dragon Reborn
Day 14 : the day Mat met the Illuminator
It’s fun that they’re all this concerned about not being part of the Queendom.
The Queen really ought to make frequent visits to all of her lands if she intends to call them hers.
Yes. Right. The letter no one but the three girls and Thom know you have is the reason Grey Men are eager to murder you. Right.
Mat my lad. Sooner or later you’ll realise that the pattern’s pull on you is strong.
Congratulations Mat my lad!! You’re fully healed!!!
I did enjoy reading about his compulsive eating and struggling not to lick the crumbs, but I’m glad that he seems to have recovered and have his full strength now.
Hey hey, Thom! Are you looking down on horses? Horse meat tastes delicious. Nothing desperate about it.
In fact back in the Viking Age the Swedes refused to become a Christian unless they were still allowed to eat horse meat.
Great, I'm hungry now. I seem to have inherited Mat’s hunger.
Aha. It almost sounds like you’re going to have to accompany Mat and meet Morgase, Thom, to figure out what this is all about.
Is she okay..? Or has she been silenced by darkfriends? Or turned?
Word of advice: if someone offers you a crazy bet like this, as confidently as Mat my lad here, do NOT take the bet. You WILL lose.
Good going for Mat though, seems like have just got them some sweet rides.
Ohhh the Illuminator Egwene saw in her dream! Already?
Hmm I wonder why she will be important. And I did feel like the names were familiar. So these were the Illuminator we saw in the last book, no? Arguing while Selene was being all... mysterious and beautiful and distracting.
Ohh this makes me feel warm and nostalgic.
This is how it began. With Mat my lad being really excited ah the prospect of seeing Fireworks and Beltine.
Ahh... back in the day before the lads knew that Trollocs were for real and the Dark Lord was hunting them.
Mat my lad really has a soft heart.
Always wanting to help and make sure beautiful women he might want to dance with sonny go hungry.
I wonder how this will play out for him. Please don’t let yourself be corrupted to abandon this soft heart, Mat.
Oh yes, me too! I would love to see what Loial has written about his journey and what he will write about his three ta’veren friends.
Ohh that diss!
Moiraine feels quite harsh sometimes but there’s a lot of similarities between the Wisdom and Moiraine. More and more as I go along, it would seem.
On another note, I’m not wild about the Falcon. I’d be quite happy for her to leave.
Me neither, Perrin. I didn’t ask her to come either, and I don’t really want her there.
Can’t we just tie her up and leave?
I suppose the pattern wouldn’t let us, eh? She’s part of the pattern now.
She isn’t a very good listener. Asks questions although she took an oath not to do so. And she expect others to call her by her chosen name but refuses to give Perrin the same curtesy.
Oh no. Oh no. I see what’s going on here.
There’s going to be a love story here, isn’t there?
Oh no... I think I’d even prefer a relationship between Rand and Selene to this.
