A Memory of Light

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Book 14. The last book. The end of the epic fantasy that I found myself sucked into several years ago. I could easily argue that this is the best, but since it is up to each person to judge that for themselves, I'll stick with it being my favorite book.

This book literally covers the Last Battle. It begins on four separate battlefronts, with each of the four great generals of the time leading a fight. Rand is doing his best to defeat the Dark One, his battle the biggest while also just being a man fighting for the lives of everyone he knows.

Lives are lost. Certain characters that you grow to know and love are never seen again. Some characters finally meet their destinies. But, let's face it: this book will have you wondering until the last page. Even during those last pages, there are some worries and fears. But the end of the book is amazing!

Now I just need to figure out what I'm going to read next.

Towers of Midnight

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Wow. I must say, I'm really enjoying these last books. The whole convoluted story lines are finally coming together and resolving. Unanswered questions are being answered.

Perrin spends this book making peace with his wolf side. He learns how to control it and not allow it to control him. He takes leadership of an entire army and accepts that this is who he is becoming.

Mat and Thom plan to save Moiraine, who hasn't been seen for several books. She was assumed dead, but the discovery of where she is and what has happened to her is interesting.

Elayne is dealing with her pregnancy (twins from Rand) as well as she can be. Her radical mood swings are finally settling and now she's just having to deal with her family's reaction to not only the pregnancy, but the father.

Aviendha learns something very troubling about her future line (also, it was probably the hardest two chapters of the book for me to read).

Egwene is finally fully Amyrlin of the White Tower. But, she's trying to discover a Forsaken in her midst which causes a whole bunch of issues for her. She also has to deal with some difficulty from Gawyn, who she loves and who loves her.

Rand, oh Rand. He has probably the biggest change in this book. He connects with Lews Therin and fully becomes who he is meant to be. He embraces his past self and becomes the Dragon. Not just the Dragon Reborn, but the Dragon himself. But he angers many people by proclaiming that he will break the remaining seals on the Dark One's prison (which I agree with him on).

I so loved this book. And I'm really excited to get to start reading the finally book in this series. Although, I am also sort of sad that it's almost over.

The Gathering Storm

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This book, book 12 of 14, is the first of the series not completely written by Robert Jordan. In 2007, Robert Jordan passed away, and Brandon Sanderson was eventually chosen to continue and complete this epic series. I'm not going to lie, I actually really enjoyed Sanderson's writing of Robert Jordan's work. You can tell it's different, but it still has most of the feel of Robert Jordan in there.

That being said...

Perrin and Faile don't have a huge part in this book. They're getting used to each other again after her rescue from the Shaido Aiel.

Egwene remains in the captivity of the White Tower and Elaida, but she refuses to denounce her claim as Amyrlin, in fact secretly working to get the Tower Aes Sedai to accept her as such.

Mat, ah, sweet Mat. He just wants to get to Camelyn to help Thom with a mission from Moiraine (yeah, she died several books ago, but there's a mission). I'm really looking forward to seeing how that goes in the next book.

Rand, well, he's the tough one to really get a handle on. He's broken in a sense. He's totally different from the Rand you meet way back in Eye of the World. That Rand was kind, considerate, hell, even a little shy at times. This Rand? He's hard, cruel, uncaring. But there's this part of you, when you can actually get inside that head of his, that feels for the poor guy. I mean, the Last Battle is coming, fast. The prophecies say, essentially, that Rand is going to die. He's going to break the world to help save it. All sorts of just horrible stuff that he still has to face. He's trying to keep himself emotionless to keep from feeling guilt over the people he needs to kill, to keep from feeling sad that he will be leaving the three women he loves. It's got to be hard.

I liked a few lesser character story lines in this book too. Suian, the former Amyrlin, has finally admitted she loves Gareth Bryne, the general of the rebel Aes Sedai army. Gawyn has changed his allegiance from Elaida to Egwene. But you just know he's only doing that because he's in love with the girl. I'm really hoping that they can patch this little issue they have at the end of this book, because I'm so wanting to see Egwene bond Gawyn as her Warder.

Huge fan of this book. Now I just have two more to finish and I'll have to move on to a new series.