The Wheel of Time Series 1-15 Books Collection Set Pack (Book 1-14) By Robert Jordan

Bought as a present came on time since delighted

My all time favourite series for years. Amazon advert is not good for the cover.

You would struggle to think of another series of books - outside of the supermarket romance section possibly - in which women are so maddeningly misrepresented. The amount of time spent brushing hair, arranging clothing (real and imagined), gossiping, glaring really hard, mooning over some future husband and blushing at the merest whiff of sexual impropriety would be tiresome in a book about boarding-school 'gals' having pillow-fights and getting up to high-jinks in the rec. In a series purportedly about the epic battle against unimaginable evil; well his many fans can forget about the Hugo Awards because eventually he overload’s the series with so much of this kind of pointless text that all he creates in the end is a supernatural ‘mills and boon’.Jordan has a variation of “feminism” which is actually more damaging than the normal pseudo-feminism in fantasy, the kind that says a princess wearing a gown is suffering as much as someone being beaten or raped. Jordan includes female characters in prominent roles and to many they’re then feminist; unfortunately with Jordan they frequently also get into situations where they are half-naked. Egwene; have you ever counted how many times she was spanked after she was captured in the white tower’ who exactly was Jordan catering for here? Or what about Faile and Alliandre who are beaten and made to walk naked through the snow for hours because of the sadistic Sevanna; maybe he should have tried walking naked through a snow storm to see if It’s at all plausible. "Only Alliandre was there, lying face down on her blankets in her collar with a damp cloth dipped in an herbal infusion over her bruised bottom." If there's one thing Jordan likes more than attractive women being spanked on their bare arses, it's attractive women learning to love such abusive treatment. The word for this is: cre-e-epy.Jordan's dismaying fixation on people's "bottoms" and legs and what is worn thereon and thereover is epic, you lose count of is the number of times a woman rides a horse wearing a skirt, and either a) not caring about how much leg they're exposing or b) utterly mortified about same. (If female characters aren't on horseback, then they're anxiously/worriedly/nervously smoothing their skirts. The two emotional states most prevalent in the series are humiliation and anxiety and everyone, men included, in this series has trouble sitting down at some point. Paddled, strapped, slippered (I don’t know if I’ve ever heard that used as a verb before, but it computes), pinched or beaten with the Power, or just plain old-fashioned smacked on the “bottom” … everyone, or pretty damn near, the Dragon Reborn or Amyrlin Seat or groom or scullery maid, it doesn’t matter – someone is bound to come along who will give you a smack (or twenty) on the bum.You have been warned, yip it's that bad.

My son wanted this set (16). He is enjoying them so far. I think they are a bit slow to start, but he is still reading them every day, they will take him a while to finish, usually he whizzes through books, these have a lot of pages in them!