{"id":960,"date":"2010-11-22T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2010\/11\/22\/review-the-gathering-storm\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:28:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:28:56","slug":"review-the-gathering-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2010\/11\/review-the-gathering-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Gathering Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1166599.The_Gathering_Storm\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time, #12; A Memory of Light, #1)\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1266734501m\/1166599.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1166599.The_Gathering_Storm\">The Gathering Storm<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6252.Robert_Jordan\">Robert Jordan<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/131981497\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously &#8212; and I hate to say this &#8212; it was almost better than the last few books written by Jordan himself. :X<\/p>\n<p>The amount of characters are kept to a minimum &#8212; the action is easy to follow, and you don&#8217;t feel yourself being overwhelmed by characters being introduced that you may have not read about in years. My only criticism &#8212; and it&#8217;s small &#8212; may be that perhaps some of the character interactions aren&#8217;t fleshed out <em>enough<\/em>&#8230; but no, I&#8217;m not going to go there. I&#8217;m happy with the way it&#8217;s written.<\/p>\n<p>Rand, in particular, develops into an <em>incredibly<\/em> interesting character in this book &#8212; I personally thought his development had stagnated just a bit, and The Gathering Storm has certainly made up for that!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/3841777-captain-skyhawk\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Seriously &#8212; and I hate to say this &#8212; it was almost better than the last few books written by Jordan himself. :X The amount of characters are kept to a minimum &#8212; the action is easy to follow, and you don&#8217;t feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-life","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZUZG-fu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}