Knife of Dreams

Book Eleven of The Wheel of Time

By: Robert Jordan

Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer

Length: 32 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

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In Knife of Dreams, the eleventh novel in Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, is upon Rand al'Thor—and now the Dragon Reborn must confront the Dark One as humanity's only hope.

The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable…

Abandoning Rand’s war against the Dark One, Perrin Aybara has made his own truce with the Seanchan in his obsessive quest to save his wife Faile from the Shaido and destroy their mutual enemies. To achieve victory, Perrin must render the Shaido Wise One channelers in Malden powerless. But even as he puts his desperate plan into action, Masema Dagar, the Prophet of the Dragon, moves against him.

Traveling with circus performers through Seanchan-controlled Altara, Mat Cauthon attempts to court Tuon, the Daughter of the Nine Moons, to complete their fateful prophesized marriage. Despite being surrounded by Seanchan seeking to kill her, Mat’s intended leads him on a merry chase while he wages guerrilla warfare to protect her.

Knowing he cannot defeat the Dark One while at war with the Seanchan, Rand brokers for a truce with the Daughter of the Nine Moons. Unaware of Tuon’s actual location, the Dragon Reborn walks into a trap set by the Forsaken Semirhage, who possesses knowledge about his powers that will either shatter or steel his resolve in the forthcoming conflict.

Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers and listeners around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in series were all instant #1 New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

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#2 The Great Hunt
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#4 The Shadow Rising
#5 The Fires of Heaven
#6 Lord of Chaos
#7 A Crown of Swords
#8 The Path of Daggers
#9 Winter's Heart
#10 Crossroads of Twilight
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#13 Towers of Midnight
#14 A Memory of Light

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Critic reviews

"Explodes with motion, as multiple plot lines either conclude or advance, and the march to Tarmon Gai'don, the climactic last battle between the Dragon Reborn and the Dark One, begins in earnest." (Publishers Weekly)

"The battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience, and the...evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation, the sense of the unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three decades." (The New York Times)

"Jordan has a powerful vision of good and evil, but what strikes me as most pleasurable...is all the fascinating people moving through a rich and interesting world." (Orson Scott Card)

So, you'll read it anyhow

So, if you're like me you're in for a nickel, in for a dime on this series. If you've read the other 10, you're bound to read this just to see what happens.

Welcome to Knife of Dreams, the second to last book of the Wheel of Time series and well...its good, but its no Great Hunt, Shadow Rising, Fires of Heaven, its not even a Crown of Swords.

Dont get me wrong, its still enjoyable because Jordan is finally getting around to fulfilling all of the prophecies and foretellings that characters have had over the last 10 books, but I get the feeling that while he still writes in big blocky paragraphs, he is rushing to tie things up.

Overall, if you've read the entire series you're reading one of the better ones since book 7, but read w/ gaurded expectations as this isnt a mind blowing experience.

Strong showing

This version of The Knife of Dreams was wonderfully done. The only problem I had was the fact that during the switching between the narrators and the inconsistency noted of sometimes stating the chapters and sometimes not was a little distracting. The only advice I would give for editing would be to attempt to edit the switch from the male narrator and the female narrator to make it a little more fluid as well as standardizing the intro into a chapter whether the number is left out completely or is stated before every one. I enjoyed this book a whole lot though and was impressed with what was done to enhance the story after having read and re-read the book a number of times. Bravo

Lots of Forward Plot Movement

Perhaps a little sadly, you can sense the author may have known his time was short as the plot moves along much more quickly here in Book 11 than most of the previous books. We finally get resolution on a handful of plot lines that have carried through at least several books and a clear path seems to be charted towards the end of the series. I'm looking forward to jumping into the next three books authored by Brandon Sanderson as I'm a fan of all his other series and know he'll do this storyline justice like no other author could.

Audio skips. You miss for phrases and sentences.

Otherwise just as amazing as the rest of the series. You should definitely check out the rest of Robert Jordan and look into Brandon Sanderson.

Suspense, laughter, & tears

The 11th book does not fail to keep you on the edge of your seat. I found myself hanging on to every word spoken and reveling in the victories as well as crying with the defeats. Step into the Wheel of Time as and learn more and more about new characters as well as old.

Great book, but had glitches

I actually enjoyed this book in the series. Sometimes I feel like they just drone on and on and don’t get to the meat of the story. This one came back to the original people more and I feel like the story progressed better. That being said, there were multiple times that it glitches out. I only wrote a few times down but it was kind of irritating especially since I don’t have the actual book in front of me so I don’t know what was said. Here are the times that I was around pen and paper to be able to write them down- 8h53m, 12h40m, 22h35m, 25h00m, 30h50m.

bad

alot of skipping in this one
I do not know how to fix it but it seems like a scratch CD to me.

wonderful

I've read the series a couple of times and completely enjoyed listening to it, and the narrators are wonderful

worth the work to get here

probably the best book in the series so far, at the very least it's the best of the last 5

Audio wasn't it's best.

At times the audio broke up and were hard to hear, like the audio recording was corrupted. Other than that I Love the series and this book!