The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan

The Great Hunt is the second book in Robert Jordans epic The Wheel of Time series. This book continues from where the first book, The eye of the world, left off. It came out back in November of 1990 and was snapped up by fans of the first book who were eager to continue the story. Again this book starts off with a prologue which when you read it does not make much sense and is a little confusing. But as the book progresses it starts to make sense and you can understand why it's good to have that early background knowledge. The book itself tells a few different stories. We have the three main characters Rand, Matt and Perrin who join with the ...  Read the complete review

I’m not planning to have any big ‘spoilers’ in this op (well, there’s a few on the back of the book – I’m allowed those!). If you have plans on reading the Wheel of Time series, you might not want to read this though, as it probably gives away some of the outcomes from the first in the series, The Eye of the World. If you’re not familiar with the Wheel of Time, it’s an epic fantasy tale, which (or so I’m told) will eventually be twelve novels. Nine of these are already available, and this is the second instalment. I think a good way to explain a fantasy world is by examining it’s basic theology: ...  Read the complete review

This is the second book in a series, and its the kind of series that isn't going to make a whole lot of sense unless you read the first book. With some series, (think Harry Potter) you can outline what's happened before to a passable degree, but these books are just too huge. For reasons of my sanity as much as yours, I'm going to assume that either you've read the first book "The Eye of the World" or you don't mind being plunged in at the deep end. I'll try to make this make sense..... A legendary horn has been found, the horn of Valere. The legend goes that when sounded, the dead heros of old will rise up to fight. ...  Read the complete review

The second book in Robert Jordan's epic saga of good and evil is actually one of the best in the Wheel of Time series. Set in the a mystical world populated with weird creatures and powerful magicians called Aes Sedai, the Wheel of Time tells the story of a land where time repeats itself, each time with some new faces and some old. This book is all about recovering the Horn of Valere which is rumoured to summon heroes of the past to the present day where they would fight on the good side in the Last Battle. It is in this book that Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, comes face to face with the Dark One (or so it seems anyway). Robert ...  Read the complete review

Mat has been touched by the evil from Shadar Logoth and must be saved, Rand has discovered things about himself that he must come to terms with and the Horn of Valere must be found. Jordan paces this novel only slightly slower than the Eye of the World and doesn't suffer for it, gradually weaving more complex designs into the whole series he creates an atmosphere of knowing that what the characters are doing isn't the only thing happening in the world and that things could crop up that they (and you) had no idea of. There are more politics and organisations, personal goals and complex interactions and hence the story is slower and more realistic. A good ...  Read the complete review