Not only does he read and react accordingly, but what he does actually smooths the path forward, as opposed to his usual behaviour, which is to apply a hammer and chisel to any situation he sees so he can watch it fall apart. I won’t say I like him yet, but there are some scenes where Matt walks in, reads the situation correctly, and reacts like a normal, well-adjusted human would. Speaking of Mat, this book has made me start coming around to not hating him.
Someone might use the excuse that she is just a small town farm girl, but Rand picks up on political undercurrents, Matt figures his way around, Perrin is still the best, and Egwene is just so ignorant of what is going on around her. I will not lie, chapters from Egwene’s perspective were often frustrating to read because she totally misreads situations, and the more wrong she is the more she thinks everyone around her is stupid, and also dumb. To put it another way, I feel like this series could have been seven, maybe eight books long, but Egwene’s massive superiority complex lengthened the whole series by six books. I always felt during this book that everything could go just a bit more smoothly if Egwene would stop worshiping Aes Sedai and start thinking about sharing incredibly important information with Rand. It is in this book that you really start to cultivate a strong dislike for Egwene (unless you agree with some of the choices she makes, which some might). Even if that is really the case, one of the highest compliments I can give to an author is the admission that they do not write to make you feel good or write what fans want to read Jordan writes some sections in Lord of Chaos that are legitimately difficult to read, but are incredibly important to the overall world. As I mentioned in my review of The Fires of Heaven, at times Robert Jordan seems less to be writing a story and more to be writing a documentary or biography of characters in a fantasy universe. That being said, this book moves very, very slowly, as a function of how detailed Robert Jordan tends to be with his characters. I suppose what I’ve said sounds incredibly boring, but I love the politics and maneuvering and spying, all of the things that go into a fantasy minded political manifest. I tend to have troubles remembering the order all events happened (especially since I am reading all of the books in The Wheel of Time back to back in rapid fire fashion) so I went to the WoT Wiki to make sure I had everything straight in my head and even the plot summary read like a dry manifest of political discourse.
I mean, the politics take place in a fantasy setting, but considering the reasons most read fantasy novels is to escape the slog and bureaucracy, I can see why this may be a problem for some. Far more politics than fantasy adventure, this book is incredibly important, but slow.
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