The Wheel Weaves As The Wheel Wills and I’m Fangirling Through Randland ✨

Howdy y’all 🤠

☁️ Oh. My. God. I’ve just come down from the cloud I was floating on after finishing The Eye of the World.


I had already read New Spring (and loved it), but many books and life-distractions later, I finally reached this one—and wow. Hooked from beginning to end.

Of course, life doesn’t stop just because you’re lost in Randland –hehe– so in between chapters I was busy with life in general and of course writing, painting, and exploring ideas about Lunghnasadh, and even the Gnostics. Still, reading in a little nook with some good lighting would honestly be my dream Friday afternoon. A girl can dream, right?

📕 But dreams do happen: I finished it. And let me tell you—what a ride!

Yes, Jordan can be word-heavy. He’ll linger on descriptions, paint you the mood, set up the scene… sometimes long before things actually happen. Honestly? I didn’t mind. By the time he shifted into full-throttle storytelling, I felt swept up in it. By the last chapters, I was flying through, desperate to know more—yet savoring every detail.

Now, if you’ve only seen the TV adaptation (now canceled), please erase it from your brain. 🙈

If you hold on to that, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. The book operates on a completely different level of richness:

✨ The whole mystery of why women can channel the One Power safely, while men go mad. ✨ How the “final boss” appears right away, instead of hiding in the shadows until the end. ✨ The way Jordan slowly unveils layer upon layer—you’ll find yourself gasping, laughing, groaning (“oh nooo, not this guy again”), and realizing much later how important even small details were.

Truly, the devil is in the details.

So, yes I loved it 🥰

What makes this first book shine is how everything feels alive: even side characters are secretly carrying agendas of their own. As the reader, you’re often the only one “in on it,” so you laugh, you suffer, you get frustrated—because people are dumb, or stubborn, or just tragically human. It makes the world feel breathing, chaotic, real.

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills… and after finishing, I completely believe it.

When I reached the last page, I literally yelled, “NOOOOOO!” …and then immediately picked up the next book.

I don’t know yet how the rest of the series will unfold, but one thing I do know: Robert Jordan knew exactly what he was doing. And I cannot wait to discover the full scope of what he built.

Have you read it yet? Will you?
 For now, I’ll be over here waiting for the tiramisu to set. But burn me, I still have to wait (a bit).

See you later, alligator 🐊💖

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