Jagang has the advantage of a knowledge of history on his side. By that I mean, Richard is not initiated into the history of the Midlands. But you can only do that so many times before you need to learn that your enemies are smarter than you. I know we're supposed to love characters who put passion before reason and turn into unstoppable dreadnoughts when the person they love is threatened. Richard, on the other hand, continues displaying monumental feats of idiotic passion (which turns out to be the Wizard's Third Rule). One of the primary antagonists, Tobias Brogan, is truly insane and you'll enjoy seeing the "logical" conclusions he reaches during his literal witch-hunt. In this book, because time and space are relative, the journey from Aydindril to the Palace of Prophets occurs over the space of a couple of chapters, and we don't actually experience it. My major problem with The Stone of Tears was that the majority of the book was a slowly-paced journey across the land from the Mud People to the Palace of the Prophets. This was better than the previous book, Stone of Tears, but not necessarily great.
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