A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time, Book 7)

Wrong cover

Book was sent without cover. Dont advertise something if your not going to send everything. If you would have written cover missing I wouldn't have ordered it. And bought it somewhere else.

Didn't come with a dust jacket.

I received an old hardcover without the art and the spine was tearing from the page binding. Very disappointed.

I also was looking for the original artwork edition (which is advertised), but was unfortunately sent a copy with a different cover.

I also collect the graphic covers of the mass market paperbacks - though that was advertised on the website, I received the other non-graphic cover. Very disappointing.

Feels like a bait and switch kind of place. The image on the site is of one cover but the other none graphic cover was sent. Also they left the goodwill price tag still on it so guess they are misleading and lazy. It truly is a shame since this is a great series.

I am buying the books in the series and ordered the ones showing the original artwork to have a matching set. All of them are the mass market paperback with the artwork I ordered aside from A Crown of Swords. I was disappointed since I took the extra time to ensure I ordered the matching book set.

Another instalment from The Wheel of Time series. To go through the characters adventures is entertaining and you will not want to out it down. From teens to adults this series should be on everyone's wishlist.

I think this was a more humorous book in the Wheel of Time series. Mat and Nynaeve are ALWAYS fun to read about, and they had the most screen time in this book. Or almost the most, anyway. As usual, there were several different plotlines, but Jordan had a different approach this time - he spent the first half of the book with Egwene and her Aes Sedai, and the second half consisted mostly of Nynaeve/Elayne/Mat in Ebou Dar. Rand gets some screen time in both parts, of course. There are several "dark" moments (especially at the end...), several plot twists and surprises, and many parts that made me laugh out loud. All in all, a very enjoyable book to read. And of course, what else would we expect out of The Wheel of Time, right? But...come on!! First Moiraine, and now....I won't spoil it, but it would appear that yet another main character has died at the end of this book. YEEAARRRGH! I'll quit reading the series pretty soon if Jordan doesn't stop killing off my favorite characters! But, seriously, do you really WANT this series to end? I was surprised to find out that some people are getting impatient, saying that it's lasting too long. I say that these people are very close-minded, or maybe SIMPLE-minded. Can't you see that there are so many characters and plots, the series ISN'T going to wrap up in just a few books? Maybe if it was ONLY about Rand, but..it's not. The Wheel of Time series is about an entire world, a world with it's own history and politics. It's about an entire cast of characters, and the parts they play in trying to save this world. And most of all, it's about the battle of Good and Evil. There is not a more timeless tale then that.

Sufice it to say that I love the book and all the books so far, but I have to say the going has been quite slow. Although you cannot say that it has been boring!I have recently read the second book of the Belegriad by David Eddings and guess what, the characters seem very similar in the two story lines. There is the rescal/thief who loves gambling, a mysterious sorceress with dark hair and regal/queenly bearing, a very big (physically) individual that has an animal aspect to him, a girl or two thrown in who is either a princess or aot so ordinary girl and of course the understated hero. I found the similarities very startaling, and wondered if anyone else had seen the comparison?I still enjoy these books and have bought all of them so far and can't wait to get the 9th book.

As always, Robert Jordan can draw in so many fine threads and tie them together in such a way as to leave you pondering their meaning for a good long time. He is the master of rumor, superstition, prejudice, and narrowmindedness in his characters... you want to reach out and slap them sometimes. The phenomenal depth of character this achieves, however, makes his people and places come alive in a way I have never experienced before.

You must read this! It is full of twists and new threads, and old threads being untangled. The prologue annoyed me a bit (as much as one of these books can, anyway)because 48 pages were used in giving the viewpoints of Elaida, Gaywn, Sevanna etc on the Battle at Dumai's Wells, which, as you remember, finished "Lord of Chaos". Normally I wouldn't have minded, but when I first read this book, it was the last of the series. Mr Jordan does a lot of that in this book, giving the pespectives of the Forsaken, the Aiel, the Aes Sedai, Morgase, Min (who I don't like- she flirts too much with Rand, while pretending she doesn't, and never has the guts to say something to him-but her viewings are interesting.)Elayne is ...Elayne. Looking for the Bowl, in love with Rand, but worried about Aviendha and Min loving him too. I've never liked Nynaeve, and I like here less here. She is a whining, conceited, can't-see-what's-in-front-of-her-because-her-head-is-too-big, prim and self-pitying fool. For all her talk about sense, she has the least of all the characters. Mat is still himself- carefree and gambling and chasing girls while running from trouble as he sees it. Trouble has formed a habit of following him, though. Perrin is being a dutiful husband to the overbearing and jealous Faile- I acan't wait till the hawk arrives. Egwene is Amyrlin in Exile, slowly and carefully gaining more power and say and respect, even though it means discarding custom. Rand is fighting against the Forsaken, the Aes sedai, Lews Therin... He's worried about what Sammael and the rest of them are up to, about the Asha'man staying sane, about staying sane himself, about what to do with the Aes Sedai, and Andor and Cairhien without rulers and a thousand more things. I think he might go mad from the stress, not the taint on saidin.Read this book if you have to spend food-money to buy it, or if you have to fail maths...Mr Jordan, keep up the good work!

And what's wrong with that? That's one of the strongest realistic aspects of Jordan's writing. Just like life, it has no definite end or beginning. Fortunately Jordan has the ability to conclude this masterpiece which seems to be growing into an all encompassing and unstoppable epic. I put my faith in the writer to determine the pace and flow of his work, yet even my faith was starting to tremble when the story started to lose ground in a sense that past events were moot and would have to be covered again. But Jordan delivered in his latest book, "Crown of Swords" and resolved many long standing issues while the story picked up steam. If the series takes longer than the traditional fantasy, so what? It's not traditional. I've read most of the "landmark" fantasy writers, and they pale in comparison to Jordan's depiction of his characters. They are humans, not heroes. This approach gives Jordan's work the quality and depth of non-fiction. Those who dislike it have reached their level of reading incompetence.