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The Fires of Heaven

By: Robert Jordan
Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
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The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!

In The Fires of Heaven, the fifth novel in Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, four of the most powerful Forsaken band together against the Champion of Light, Rand al’Thor.

Prophesized to defeat the Dark One, Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, has upset the balance of power across the land. Shaido Aiel are on the march, ravaging everything in their path. The White Tower's Amyrlin has been deposed, turning the Aes Sedai against one another. The forbidden city of Rhuidean is overrun by Shadowspawn.

Despite the chaos swirling around him, Rand continues to learn how to harness his abilities, determined to wield the One Power--and ignoring the counsel of Moiraine Damodred at great cost.

Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in series were all instant #1 New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

The Wheel of Time®
New Spring: The Novel
#1 The Eye of the World
#2 The Great Hunt
#3 The Dragon Reborn
#4 The Shadow Rising
#5 The Fires of Heaven
#6 Lord of Chaos
#7 A Crown of Swords
#8 The Path of Daggers
#9 Winter's Heart
#10 Crossroads of Twilight
#11 Knife of Dreams

By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
#12 The Gathering Storm
#13 Towers of Midnight
#14 A Memory of Light

By Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson
The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time

By Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons
The Wheel of Time Companion

By Robert Jordan and Amy Romanczuk
Patterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time

©1993 The Bandersnatch Group, Inc. (P)1997 Books on Tape; Published by Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC

Critic Reviews

"Jordan deftly weaves details from previous books into this narrative." (Publishers Weekly)
"Fires of Heaven upholds the very high standards of this major fantasy epic, with battle scenes, comic interludes, and character development all reaching perhaps the highest point in a work that has lacked for none of these." (Booklist)
"Jordan's epic saga of a world threatened by evil incarnate builds steadily as separate strands of a complex plot begin to come together. Fans of this richly detailed and vividly imagined series will not be disappointed." (Library Journal)

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Great characters and story, however...

Such a great story with so many things happening and I really want to know whats happening next. Though the female characters are nearly always complaining and whining that it's hard to like any of them and found myself getting frustrated because of it. Was read very well as usual and despite my negative points, I'm listening to the next one.

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much better. I was ready to give it up but...

much better than the last. worth moving onto the next. I am surprised as the writing style seems to have changed, almost faster or more directional rather than the circles of before

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Fantastic book and series

So addictive the more you read and the last few books in this series is epic

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Far too pondorous and silly sexist remarks.

Overall story arc is good but way too many characters commenting on what they percieve is the opposite sex’s viewpoint. Who cares? Rather distracting and I feel simply pads the story out. It’s fine to establish a characters viewpoint and flaws etc but it seems half the book is filled with silly comments on what/how the opposite sex thinks. Generalisations galore.
Also the actual action scenes are rather short and lacking detail yet we get pages and pages on boring bits in between.
I give the overall series so far a 5 out of 10 simply because of these.

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my thoughts

2nd time through and it is still brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant and once again brilliant.

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enjoyable

was a great book. can't belive Morain is has died... can't wait to listen to the next one.

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Frustrating

There is too much repeating from previous books to make this a really good listen. The characters should just talk to each other and the whole thing would be done, most frustrating

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Inconsistency production quality

Chapter 51 was quite flawed. Instead of enjoying, at times I was listening for more flaws and wondering how many there was earlier.

I hope Rosamund Pike reads some more real soon.

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The women are insufferable...

Completely and utterly insufferable.
The older I get, the worse they are.

The story is great, but it would have only needed half the amount of books if the female characters spent less time pretending they know everything and "smoothing their skirts" or tugging on braids.

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What Happened

This book took the story completely off the rails, I'm not sure why the story went from good to fine to unfinishable but the way the author writes every female character in this book is actually just really unrelatable. It was just unfinishable for me, I tried because I really enjoy the first couple of novels and I put so many hours into the story already but this long drawn out tale just didn't do it for me, I had to give up close to the end.
Women are not always just obsessed with men looking at their bodies in every waking (and sleeping) moment and furiously blushing yet secretly enjoying at the thought of being sexualised nor are men unable to talk to or understand any woman in existence and they don't just shake their head at the insanity of any word spilling out of a womens mouth at any point, no matter how long they've known each other or what they've been through.
But to those that enjoyed it, good on you, I would have like too aswell, so I hope you had a good adventure.

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