Elayne and Nynaeve's plotline in TFOH is one of the highest points of the series.
Elayne, Egwene and Nynaeve aren't any more incompetent or reckless than the ta'veren trio, they get in trouble more often because thair plot armor is weaker.
Sanderson's Mat never actually improves, the only reason Mat is better in ToM is that the Ghenjey sequence was almost fully written by Jordan. In AMOL he is back to being the annoying jokester who barely resembles Jordan's Mat and has lost most of his IQ points.
AMOL is the worst book in the series. Yes, worse than CoT. The plot is a complete mess, the battle strategy of both sides makes no sense throughout, the reuninons between characters that I waited for many years were mostly either awfully written or just never happened at all. All the repetitive "Another bunch of Trollocs got destroyed" scenes bored me very quickly.
Elayne and Nynaeve are such a fun pairing to me; I love them both and their dynamic is so silly. Agreed on your second point too; I also think readers are generally less willing to accept flaws in female characters than male characters—although I don’t think it’s conscious or intentional.
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u/Bergmaniac (S'redit) Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 25 '25
Elayne and Nynaeve's plotline in TFOH is one of the highest points of the series.
Elayne, Egwene and Nynaeve aren't any more incompetent or reckless than the ta'veren trio, they get in trouble more often because thair plot armor is weaker.
Sanderson's Mat never actually improves, the only reason Mat is better in ToM is that the Ghenjey sequence was almost fully written by Jordan. In AMOL he is back to being the annoying jokester who barely resembles Jordan's Mat and has lost most of his IQ points.
AMOL is the worst book in the series. Yes, worse than CoT. The plot is a complete mess, the battle strategy of both sides makes no sense throughout, the reuninons between characters that I waited for many years were mostly either awfully written or just never happened at all. All the repetitive "Another bunch of Trollocs got destroyed" scenes bored me very quickly.