The setting of the book is that the source of magic has a male side and a female side, kind of like yin and yang. The setting's devil corrupted the male side, meaning that any man who uses magic enough eventually goes insane, so all male magic users are hunted down and killed without exception.
The story's main character is the reincarnation of history's strongest male magic user. So of course the vast majority of female magic users take some exception to the entire situation.
And also holy fuck yes it gets bogged down. I can only guess that the author's life was in some way tied to the life of his characters because it felt like every single book a dozen characters got added and none of them ever fucking died. That's the reason I gave up the series 10 or so books in. I just couldn't fucking keep up with it anymore.
And then the final book happened, in particular the Final Battle chapter [which was like a ninth of the entire book], and characters just started dropping left and right, many with zero fanfare or grand send off.
The setting of the book is that the source of magic has a male side and a female side, kind of like yin and yang. The setting's devil corrupted the male side, meaning that any man who uses magic enough eventually goes insane, so all male magic users are hunted down and killed without exception.
I've seen this trope quite a few times (three times as exactly that, magic with a male and female side and the male side was corrupted by some evil deity figure), and it would be refreshing if just once the corrupted "evil" side was the "female" side instead. They even did it with the Force in the Clone Wars tv show, with the light side being represented by the Sister character and the dark by the Brother.
The setting of the book is that the source of magic has a male side and a female side, kind of like yin and yang. The setting's devil corrupted the male side, meaning that any man who uses magic enough eventually goes insane, so all male magic users are hunted down and killed without exception.
The story's main character is the reincarnation of history's strongest male magic user. So of course the vast majority of female magic users take some exception to the entire situation.
And also holy fuck yes it gets bogged down. I can only guess that the author's life was in some way tied to the life of his characters because it felt like every single book a dozen characters got added and none of them ever fucking died. That's the reason I gave up the series 10 or so books in. I just couldn't fucking keep up with it anymore.
And then the final book happened, in particular the Final Battle chapter [which was like a ninth of the entire book], and characters just started dropping left and right, many with zero fanfare or grand send off.
I've seen this trope quite a few times (three times as exactly that, magic with a male and female side and the male side was corrupted by some evil deity figure), and it would be refreshing if just once the corrupted "evil" side was the "female" side instead. They even did it with the Force in the Clone Wars tv show, with the light side being represented by the Sister character and the dark by the Brother.
The male side might be corrupted physically (magically?), but that doesn't mean that the female magicians aren't also horribly corrupt.
Jordan isn't exactly subtle either. The Aes Sedai literally live in an ivory tower in the middle of vagina island