🤠Hi frens, how’s your week going? Hopefully as smooth as possible. Over here, I’m doing alright. But I’m still all over the place after finishing "The Great Hunt."
It gave me everything I wanted and more. The boys are out traveling distant lands (hehe). They’re far from home and even though at times they don’t recognize each other (or even themselves) that core friendship and bond is still there, unshakable.
This volume feels more mature. Once, they were innocent, more "run-of-the-mill" folk. Even though they are still so young, they’re truly trying to find themselves and no longer just stumbling into decisions: they’re actively discovering and chasing what they want.
Loyalty and stubbornness really define this book. But, alas! No one really knows exactly what they want in their early twenties, especially when the entire fate of the world gets tossed on your shoulders… but hey, no pressure ;)
Robert Jordan really had me seeing these characters. I mean, the man is describing them so well we may as well be frens by now. His narration has me fully wrapped around his finger. This wasn’t just a Great Hunt for the Horn of Valere… it was a hunt for my heart and, well, he caught it.
📖I can feel him cementing the foundations he set in the earlier books (I’ve already read the prequel New Spring and the first book The Eye of the World), and I can’t wait to see where he takes me next.
Even when some characters step aside for a while, I don’t mind; their presence still looms and you feel them in the story. That said, I did wish the girls had more time on the page. And yet, when they did take center stage, I was screaming and suffering right along with them. I even had to set the book down for a couple of days because it left me in shambles. Careful what you wish for, I guess…
My fren Robert Jordan isn’t just a narrator: he’s a weaver. And the way he’s been weaving up until now has me completely hooked.
Have you read this book? Or any in the series? Would you be interested to?
I’d love to hear what you think.
See you later, alligator! 🐊