The Great Hunt
- 684
- Pages
- about 13 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Great Hunt” stays close to the pattern of the first volume: another quest and another hero’s journey. What improves is the craft: the prose is surer, the foreshadowing is planted with care, and the young characters start to act on their own. Some readers find the plot slow to gather speed and the viewpoints shared out less evenly than before. A book for readers already committed to a very long series.
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About the book
The Great Hunt is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the second book of The Wheel of Time series. It was published by Tor Books and released on November 15, 1990. The Great Hunt consists of a prologue and 50 chapters. In 2004 The Great Hunt was re-released as two separate books, The Hunt Begins and New Threads in the Pattern.
Reading order · The Wheel of Time
Full order & progress →- The Eye of the WorldStart here
8.18.1 / 10 - The Great HuntThis book
8.38.3 / 10 - The Dragon Reborn
8.38.3 / 10 - The Shadow Rising
8.48.4 / 10 - The Fires of Heaven
8.28.2 / 10 - Lord of Chaos
8.18.1 / 10 - A Crown of Swords
7.87.8 / 10 - The Path of Daggers
7.57.5 / 10 - Winter's Heart
7.77.7 / 10 - Crossroads of Twilight
7.17.1 / 10 - New Spring
8.08.0 / 10 - Knife of Dreams
8.28.2 / 10 - The Gathering Storm
8.78.7 / 10 - Towers of Midnight
8.78.7 / 10 - A Memory of Light
9.09.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 1,936 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 93% of the weight and the score stays at 8.3 — the Fantasy average of 8.0 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 97 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 1.8K | 95% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Great Hunt?
It has 684 pages — longer than 72% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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