Literature

@hybridhavoc@darkfriend.social Keeping a promise to share my thoughts on wheel of time periodically!

If anyone reading this hasn't read it, there will be spoilers up to where I am in the books!

According to my audiobook app I am 42% through the great hunt, the second wheel of time book.

So far I am enjoying it a lot more than the eye of the world. Having time with the characters has helped a lot. I often found myself getting annoyed by the 3 main boys in the first book and the decisions they made. However, when the audio of the first book finished, there was an interview with Robert Jordan I listened to. I began to understand kind of the whole point of the books (at least as he said when this was recorded) was that the "chosen ones" really just had 0 interest in being any of that. With that in mind, I began to be less annoyed by the decisions Rand and the others would make.

I do have to say, I got very apprehensive when the concept of parallel universe things got introduced. Where I'm at Rand and the others just got back to their world, so I still don't know a ton. But with so much media these days having multiverses and parallel universes, my knee jerk reaction was definitely an eye roll. But we'll see how it plays out. I know the books are beloved, and I've really enjoyed them so far, so I'm optimistic.

Excited to keep listening!