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- Content warnings: Violence, War, Death, Torture, Gore, Child death, Slavery, Grief
The Shadow Rising
by Robert Jordan
Book 4 in The Wheel of Time
Book four is where Wheel of Time stops being a Tolkien echo and becomes its own enormous thing - the Aiel Waste sequence and Rand's trip into the past reshape the whole mythology. Long, dense, and worth the climb if you love getting lost in a world.
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Length1,007 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 15 books
Spice1/5 · Closed door / fade to black
PacingSlow
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Found family
- Mixed
- Slow burn
- Low
- Closed door / fade to black
- Adrenaline rush
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- Reluctant chosen one
- Banter
- Escape
- Reluctant hero
- Mutual pining
- Intellectual satisfaction
- Warrior/fighter
- Fated mates
- Protector
Fantasy promise
- Epic fantasy
- High fantasy
- Monsters
- Shadow beings / shadow fae
- Forced proximity
- Trolls
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- Adventure romance
- Marriage of convenience
Reading experience
- Multi-POV
- Slow
- Epic
- Classical
- Heavy
- High
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- Witch/mage
- Adventurous
- Immersive
- Dark
- Mysterious
- Atmospheric
- Intense
- Lush
- Mythic
- Suspenseful
- Chosen one burden
- Survival against impossible odds
- Series binge material
- Page turner
- War-torn kingdom
- Political intrigue
- The long game
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Book details
- Length
- 1,007 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
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