The Shadow Rising

Book Four of The Wheel of Time

By: Robert Jordan

Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer

Length: 41 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

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In The Shadow Rising, the fourth novel in Robert Jordan’s number one New York Times best-selling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al’Thor now wields the sword Callandor. He is both the Champion of Light and the Dragon Reborn. Now, he seeks answers to another prophecy that lies with the warrior people known as the Aiel to put him on the path of learning how to wield the One Power.

Accompanied by Moiraine Damodred, Rand arrives at the Aiel Waste and is granted permission by the Wise Ones to enter the sacred city of Rhuidean. After passing through a doorframe ter'angreal, Moiraine gains foresight while the Aiel await Rand's return, either with both arms marked by dragon symbols, validating his identity as He Who Comes With the Dawn, the Chief of Chiefs of all the Aiel - or to never emerge at all.

Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in series were all instant number one New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

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#2 The Great Hunt
#3 The Dragon Reborn
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#5 The Fires of Heaven
#6 Lord of Chaos
#7 A Crown of Swords
#8 The Path of Daggers
#9 Winter's Heart
#10 Crossroads of Twilight
#11 Knife of Dreams

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#13 Towers of Midnight
#14 A Memory of Light

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Critic reviews

"Jordan's multivolume epic continues to live up to its high ambitions. Complex plotting, an array of strong characters, lavish detail, and a panoramic scope make this series a feast for fantasy aficionados." (Library Journal)

"The fourth volume of the most ambitious American fantasy saga continues to suggest that The Wheel of Time will also be the finest." (Booklist)

A truely perfect fantasy it has it all

Where does The Shadow Rising rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This continuation of the wheel of time series is perfect it pull at you makes you wish you were part of robert jordans tale.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Perren Ebara (likely not spelled correct) His fight between what he is who he loves and what he needs to become truely makes you think.

Which character – as performed by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer – was your favorite?

The readers played all of the character great even giving them their own accents excellent work

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

impossible you need to sleep sometime however yes.

Any additional comments?

looking forward to the next book

Enjoyable Series

Kate Reading and Michael Kramer are two of my favorite readers/narrators so it goes without saying, in the Wheel of Time series they make it come alive, truly an asset with this series. The story is finally coming together, up until now, I have found the series 'busy' with many storylines and characters, with lots of detail which at times to me was distracting. It has been a solid story, but not setting on the edge of your seat kind of story if that makes sense. The Wheel of Time has always intrigued me which is why I have continued listening to the books since the first one. The Shadow Rising, in my opinion, is where the characters are starting to stand out and one have a greater understanding of their purpose and personalities. I very much look forward to listening to future books in The Wheel of Time series..

Great Relisten

One of my favorite parts of the series occurs in the Shadow Rising. Listening to the Audio made it much more an emotional experience for me. You could feel how much pain and anguish came from the choices people made.

Loving the story!

I'm really enjoying the story line and I like the two narrator tradeoff. Looking forward to the next book!

Best Book so far

Never a dull moment in this book. Some of the best emotional and action scenes with a amazing ending that Robert Jordan has offered so far.

my second Epic Fantasy is a kid that set the mold

my first book I read as a kid was Pawn of Prophecy by David eddings and my second one was the dragon Reborn well to be more precise it was the dragon reborn and then I went back and read the eye of the world the great hunt and finally the shadow Rising this helped shape my love of fantasy for decades to come and was the gold standard by which all other long-form fiction was measured. because when I was young you know I could read a book a day if it was short fiction but looks like these always took me like a week or more to read with constant reading I really loved this book I loved the amount of detail of World building that Robert Jordan always put into his stories and this is a great epic series to begin with though I suggest you go back and read the first book unlike me who started out with this one in the dragon Reborn.

I'm addicted to these audiobooks!

I thought I was going to switch to reading the hard copies after the first one but I loved the performance so much I just had to continue with the audiobooks! I haven't watched Netflix in over a month because of these audio books!

4 stars

Awesome book and terrific job with the narration. This is a super high quality audiobook and the whole series narrated by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer has made any and all commuting a highlight of my day. I do however have 2 main complaints, and it’s more of an editing disagreement. 1. The audio isn’t sectioned into chapters matching the chapters in the book. And 2. There are random 3 second pauses between what are probably pages, or clips of the audio maybe once a chapter. It’s not a huge deal, but wasn’t an issue for the last 3 audio books and is a slightly disappointing dip in the quality of the editing.

awesome best book so far.

loved it! the reading was great and the book was the best so far. It had by far the best story out of the other books.

Getting Better

It finally gets to the point where you understand the tone of the series and can decide whether or not it is worth to invest your time into the rest of the books. I found it really good and attractive though not perfect, I shall continue with the next book and see how the story develops.