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The Fires of Heaven > Chapter 13-17 Book 5

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Team C meets a runned down circus and Ninive is a dick to them.

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Time to talk about the nudity in the series. It starts to get uncomfortable even for me, who doesn't give a fuck.

A thing about Dreamwalking. Why don't they "go" to Tar Valon and, dunno, read some papers on the desk of the Throne? Humans are not in the Dreamworld, but that you can circumgo. But hese characters are MDE TO BE dumb, soo the plot can happen.

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So, ninive DO go to the Tower to investigate.

Oooh, finally some real weird shit happens, and the Dreamworld will be the danger everyone claims to be?
Oh, no, that's just a character who wish the Dreamworld would be dangerous attcking Ninive to prove her point. Well, fuck you, you lying bitch.

At least they find out who the new Throne is.

And THIS is why the natural develéopment of Ninive was thrown in the trashcan? THIS? This utter garbage, another flimsy idea to spend a hundred more page with? They payed by characters, or Jordan really didn't care about the quality of his writing, and his wife said why work on this shit if people eat it? there is no redeeming quality in this volume.

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Egwenne level up or some shit, I dun care anymore.

We are reminded that this is the 5th book, and still have zero idea what the grey ajah does.

but one important thing in the 15th chapter: Balzamon is a Forsaken now!

Forsakens:
1 Semirhage
2 Lanfear (Mierin)
3 Ishamael, the betrayer of hope (Elan Morin Tedornain) <--- (dead*, book 3)
4 Aginor <--- (dead, book 1)
5 Balthamel <--- (dead, book 1)
6 Demandred
7 Luc <--- (retconned in book 4)
8 Isam <--- (retconned in book 4)
9 Sammael <--- (Illian)
10 Asmodean (Joar Addam Nesossin) <--- (cut, book 4)
11 Be'lal <--- (dead, book 3)
12 Ravhin <--- (Caemlyn)
13 (dead, book 2) <--- (retconned in book 4)
14 Moghedien
15 Graendal
16 Mesaana
17 Ba'alzamon

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So, this team COULD go right away to the blues, but RJ OBVIOUSLY has some crappy idea he thinks is genious, and wants to spend a thousan pages with that spinoff filler nonsense, so Ninive simply "doesn't remember yet".

Galad, Elayne's half-brother joined the Children. Like I give a fuck.
But ya know, this many pages in, I think we can finaly not worry much about an expanding cats. There's our 12-20 regulars, and the rest can be like filtered out as background noise. At least I hope so.
They run away.

Masema, the Prophet of Rand still exists.

Elayne reveals she remembers Thom bein her mother's lover. Ok, so we retcon the whole thing about Thom now? Ye, fucking your mother's boyfriend - that'll be sooo much better
But ya know what? Let's say, nothing Jordan built up through all these books. Zilch. Why do we spend time on this thing again? What's the big reveal here? That Robert Jordan is a bad writer AND a perv?

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Aaand we spend more time on this daddy-issue. Ye, if your plotline doesn't work, double down on it! Neil Breen would be proud.

The party joins the circus.
Ugh. Seems Jordan wants to create a character out of Alundra the fireworkess, and here is another nazi called Cerandin.


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