Even though it took me about 5 months to finish The Shadow rising, I really liked it. Robert Jordan's writing throughout the entire series is just flawless, the amount of detail and world building are what make The Wheel Of Time a fantastic series so far. 
 The characters have grown quite a lot since The Eye Of The World. This was probably the first Wheel Of Time Book in which I did not utterly detest a certain character (as I did in the previous Wheel Of Time books), as a matter of fact, I have actually come to really like most of them, especially Perrin and Mat. 
 The only problem I'm having with The Wheel Of Time is that the books are often dreadfully long-wired with an immense lack of action. That is exactly what caused me to abandon this book for about four months, as it had happened before whilst reading The Great hunt (Wheel of Time book 2). 
 The Wheel Of Time consists of 14 books of which I have now read 4. It has taken me quite some time and the journey was really enjoyable but very tedious. I really want to finish this series, I adore the world building, the story and character development and having a series as this one on your bookshelf looks quite impressive. I will shortly 9after taking some time off of The Wheel Of Time) continue with the next one, The Fires Of heaven.