A Crown of Swords

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A Crown of Swords
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Original cover of A Crown of Swords, showing Rand al'Thor standing in Shadar Logoth
Author Robert Jordan
Cover artist Darrell K. Sweet
Tyler Jacobson (2013 Edition)
LanguageEnglish
Series The Wheel of Time
Genre Fantasy
Published1996 (Tor Books/U.S. and Orbit/UK)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages881 (U.S. paperback edition) &
720 (U.S. hardback edition)
ISBN 0-312-85767-5 (US hardback edition)
OCLC 33819178
813/.54 20
LC Class PS3560.O7617 C76 1996
Preceded by Lord of Chaos  
Followed by The Path of Daggers  
A Crown of Swords was the first Wheel of Time book for which the cover of the first paperback edition, shown here, did not use the same art as the hardcover edition. WoT07 ACrownOfSwordsAlternate.jpg
A Crown of Swords was the first Wheel of Time book for which the cover of the first paperback edition, shown here, did not use the same art as the hardcover edition.

A Crown of Swords is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the seventh book of The Wheel of Time . It was published by Tor Books and released on May 15, 1996. A Crown of Swords consists of a prologue and 41 chapters.

Contents

Plot summary

A Crown of Swords has three primary plotlines:

Reception

Andy Butcher reviewed A Crown of Swords for Arcane magazine, rating it a 7 out of 10 overall, and stated that "The story has lost the sense of urgency and tension that made the first three so readable, and Jordan falls into the trap of spending too much time on unimportant details and minor sideplots. A Crown of Swords is still a cut above a lot of fantasy, but the pace needs to be picked up. It would probably help if Jordan set himself (and his readers) a goal by disclosing just how many books there will be in the series - at the moment you get the distinct impression that it could run forever, becoming more meandering and aimless as time goes by." [1]

Reviews

References

  1. Butcher, Andy (October 1996). "The Great Library". Arcane (11): 81.
  2. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?5152