The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel Of Time #5) - Book five of The Wheel Of Time

Robert Jordan

Tor Books

2010

926 páginas

1d 6h 52m

ISBN-10: B0037V18D2

Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, continues his effort to unify the diverse people of a discordant world against the Dark One in this fifth tome of the Wheel of Time series (begun with The Eye of the World ). While the Aes Sedai, women who channel the One Power, and the Forsaken, ancient disciples of the Dark One, strive to bend him to their purposes, Rand leads the clans of the Aiel in a war of unification. Rand must try to master his powers as a man who can channel, while eluding the concomitant madness, as two groups of women attempt to come to his aid. His love, Elayne, Daughter-Heir of Andor, and Nynaeve, both Aes Sedai in training, join a circus to evade an angry sisterhood, and Siuan Sanche, former leader of the Aes Sedai now stripped of her powers, and two companions seek other rebels in an attempt to avert the final doom. Jordan deftly weaves details from previous books into this narrative and includes a glossary so that new readers can pick up the saga at this point. But all should beware: the few months covered here suggest it may be years and many more volumes before this series reaches its conclusion.

Resenhas (15)

4 (Muito bom)

"Storms rumble beyond the horizon,...

...and the fires of heaven purge the earth."

É bom, mas se não fosse tão focado nas personagens femininas seria melhor. Os poucos momentos em que Mat aparece foram o que salvaram esse livro pra mim; ele simplesmente deixou de ser um personagem detestável e se tornou um dos meus favoritos!

"Mat was caught up in it, now. He more than merely liked gambling, and battle was a gamble to make dicing in taverns a thing for children and toothless invalids. Lives were the stake here, your own and other men’s, men who were not even there. Make the wrong wager, a foolish bet, and cities died, or whole nations."

Rand também foi maravilhoso nesse livro. Acho que nunca vou deixar de me impressionar com a nova versão dele: frio, calculista, poderoso, mas ainda assim bom apesar de tudo que enfrentou e terá que enfrentar, e do fardo que é ser o Dragon Reborn, "this man who is supposed to save us, and destroy us doing it."

"If the only way I can find time and peace for the world is to impose it, I will. I don’t want to, but I will."