Timeline

Everybody makes mistakes, the question is how severe and whether people are being reasonable about how much they claim it detracts from the book. In my experience, the most vocal critics on this point tend to have a serious axe to grind with Brandon.

My opinion is that the casual reader will not pick up on the timeline clues in the reading.  They might have a vague memory of the last Bel Time (sp?), but I doubt they will connect all of the dots.

For every good book or series of books, there will be the fans that will catch, and potentially obsess, about some of the details.  Which details the people key in on will vary from person to person.