{"id":2112,"date":"2013-03-06T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2013-04-26T08:38:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:38:44","slug":"rereading-wheel-of-time-the-great-hunt-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"Rereading Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt (Book 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1312031081l\/233649.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My journey back through the 14-volume Wheel of Time Series continues with book 2, <em>The Great Hunt<\/em>. I think this is where the series really begins to take off. Rand is already no longer the boy he was when it all began just a few months earlier, but he still fears and mistrusts his destiny. There is one thing he knows for sure &#8212; he will not be anyone&#8217;s puppet. The dark lord isn&#8217;t the only one who wants to hold his strings. Well-meaning Aes Sedai would use him as well, especially Moiraine, who first ushered him away from his home and saved his life. She has told him that he&#8217;s The Dragon Reborn, the most feared and hated man in history and in prophecy, here to save the world or break it again. <\/p>\n<p>Rand is in denial throughout this book. He&#8217;s struggling to control the one power while attempting not to use it at all &#8212; for if he does, eh taint will drive him mad. <\/p>\n<p>He already seems a bit mad in this book, but it&#8217;s not true madness, it&#8217;s the pressure of everything he knows, everything he wants to reject, and all those who want to kill or control him. He has a lot on his shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>The first book in the series is a great foundation, but this book is better. I like that the characters are all flawed, and the progression of destiny is very well done here. From a nostalgic point of view, I read this as the end of the beginning, because I knew it would be. <\/p>\n<p>Rating 5\/5<\/p>\n<p>Title: The Great Hung<br \/>\nAuthor: Robert Jordan<br \/>\nISBN: 0812517725<br \/>\nPublished October 15, 1991<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My journey back through the 14-volume Wheel of Time Series continues with book 2, The Great Hunt. I think this is where the series really begins to take off. Rand is already no longer the boy he was when it all began just a few months earlier, but he still fears and mistrusts his destiny. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57],"tags":[69,96,26,18,93,95],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","tag-christine-amsden","tag-epic-fantasy","tag-fantasy","tag-review","tag-robert-jordan","tag-wheel-of-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}