A review by nclcaitlin
Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan

3.25

The lowest rated Wheel of Time book.

Crossroads of Tedious Descriptions.

The prologue alone is 94 pages and Jordan takes 12 pages to walk from a room to the kitchens…. 

I am not ashamed to admit I sped through this book by skimming the many, many descriptions. 

We rejoin Mat after he freed the damane and his journey with the unplanned kidnapped Tuon, the Daughter of the Nine Moons and his prophesied wife-to-be. The only thing that keeps him from bawling is that it seems his luck is still with him. 

Perrin is bereft without Falie, 22 days after she was first captured by the Shaido. 

A hammer had to be used with care, and he was working a forge where one slip would tear the heart out of his chest.

Elayne is being coddled and mothered by everyone since news of her pregnancy has spread. She continues to try and consolidate her claim. 

Her and Aviendha’s relationship is so cute to read! Yes, I am using the word cute to describe Aviendha!

It still icks me that three incredible women are resigned, if not elated, to be sharing Rand with others. 

The White Tower continues to spin webs, the Ajahs spins webs, and even individual sisters spun webs. Now they also have to deal with Black Ajah and the splintering of the Tower. 

“And don't disturb us unless the city is under attack. Unless it is important," she amended. In stories, women who gave orders like that were always setting themselves up for disaster. Sometimes, there were lessons in stories, if you looked for them.

I was expecting to be bored out of my mind. Crawling to the end. 

I finished this in two days! 

Okay, so it was by no means the best, but I don’t think it was the worst Wheel of Time book… controversially. 

Maybe it helped that I did skim a lot of the useless descriptions, yet I have to say I am guilty of doing this with quite a few passages in the Wheel of Time series. Talking about dresses, laces, and jewellery holds no interest to me or relevance to the plot.