Jamie’s Reviews > The Shadow Rising > Status Update

Unfortunately my book was returned to the library before I could finish it, so waiting for it to be available again (it's already been 2 weeks). That said, this book just hasn't been as engaging as the previous 3. I don't care for Perrin and the introduction of various romances aren't working for me. I find the romantic aspects to be old school insta-love and very unbelievable. Tracking at a 3.5 so far.

This book is much slower for me than the previous ones. I think it's because it's primarily following Perin and I find him to be the least interesting character in the cast.

I know that this is the best book in the series for a lot of people, but it's not working for me as well as the first three books (at least so far). I'm not super into the dream stuff. I think it would be fine if it was just Egwene but having it be Perrin too and then getting the dream-like sequences in Ruidien...it's just a lot.

The narration is still superb though!