Series: Book 3 in the Wheel of Time series
Rating: ***
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Lang:en
Summary
The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save
the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will
run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from
his destiny.Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control
it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in
three thousand years--Rand al'Thor knows only that he must face
the Dark One. But how?Winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men
are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?Perrin
Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and
the Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling
with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of
his own humanity.Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar
Valon, where Mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive.
But who will tell the Amyrlin their news--that the Black Ajah,
long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot
know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...Ahead, for all of
them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of
the Dragon reborn....