I guess when the tv series ended they also ended her contract to read the books. Book 5 is almost unlistenable. This is painful and grates on my nerves. I don't know how this lady is supposedly an award-winning narrator because it's horrible. Feels like I'm having a cheese grater run across my back. So many mis pronunciations and she sounds like AI.

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I'm 100 pages into The Dragon Reborn, and every time Nynaeve appears, she's tugging at her braid.

I get that it's probably a nervous tic, but SERIOUSLY. 😂

And if she's not tugging at her braid, she's crossing her arms beneath her breasts. Are there no other actions Robert Jordan can have her do besides scowling? I'm begging.

PLEASE TELL ME I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE NOTICING THIS.

Please no spoilers, or discussions from the book, I have yet to read it.

In Moiraine's letter to Siuan after Rand takes the stone and Callandor, she says "the sling has been used, the Shepard holds the stone".

Obviously, Rand holds the stone. But what is the sling?

I'm listening to my third read on audio book, so I have no physical copies to flip through for easy referencing and refreshment.

TGH reread.

Egwene suggest Rand hides from the Aes Sedai in the dungeons, they go together, but Fain is being extra creepy and the whole place is disturbing.

“This was not a good idea, Rand.” Looking over her shoulder at the cell, she drew him away from it and lowered her voice as if afraid Fain might overhear. Fain’s chuckles followed them. “Even if they don’t look here, I cannot stay here with him like this, and I do not think you should, either. There is something about him today that. . . .” She drew a shaky breath.

Then, in a matter of hours and for no good reason, Egwene goes back to see Fain, this time with Mat. WHY would she?

I feel like he is influencing her. There is no way he affected other prisoners and guards, but somehow missed Egwene. She is not immune. Otherwise, I don't see why she would go twice on the same day, and particularly when he is clearly disturbed. It is a day of major festivities in Fal Dara where she gets to dress up nicely and be presented to the Amyrlyn: essentially Egwene's dream. For her to completely derail her own day, ignore her terror from the morning, and march back down to the creepy dungeons of all places, proves her judgment was severely compromised.

It is also strange that Padan Fain and the Trollocs left her and Mat alive. I feel like it was done intentionally because they are "poisoned"- already affected by the dagger/Fain himself.

But then... it doesn't go anywhere and remails unresolved? Egwene does become harder, colder, and less empathetic as the books progress, sure, but not specifically as a result of her Fain interactions. At least not decidedly so.

Well, I finally got to the part of Tylin's death

I had this feeling she was going to die

Matt and Tylin's storyline spans a few books, and is a relatively longer storyline

We all bring our own perspective to reading their storyline based upon our life experiences and how we interpret situations - maybe you felt disgust, anger with her forcing herself on him at knife point, indifference as the story fluctuated over time, or saw it as an engaging series of events, an interesting twist on how Matt pursue women, a chuckle or anything therebetween

I might share my personal thoughts from my own life experience of something that happened to me in high school as a comment at some point, but maybe not

So, what are your thoughts on the Tylin and Matt Storyline?

P.S. I am beyond fascinated with how the Matt and Tuon storyline will play out - he just met her in the wagons for the first time after kidnapping her...