 Original cover ofA Crown of Swords, showingRand al'Thor standing inShadar Logoth | |
| Author | Robert Jordan |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Darrell K. Sweet Tyler Jacobson (2013 Edition) |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Wheel of Time |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Published | 1996 (Tor Books/U.S. and Orbit/UK) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 881 (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 is afantasy novel by American authorRobert Jordan, the seventh book ofThe Wheel of Time. It was published byTor Books and released on May 15, 1996.A Crown of Swords consists of aprologue and 41chapters.
A Crown of Swords has three primary plotlines:
Andy Butcher reviewedA Crown of Swords forArcane 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]
