A review by paranoidmarvin
A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

5.0

I started this journey on February, this year. And oh boy was it a journey! I have been elated, frustrated, sad, and all at the same time. And now it's the end. Or an end.

The whole book is a long drawn battle, which the readers were promised for since the very beginning. The chapter titled Last Battle is frickin 220 pages! Sometimes (for very brief moments) it just got a little too much battle. But I guess that's battle fatigue and that's exactly what Sanderson was going for!

The ending itself was...well I am not sure! Sometimes it feels perfect, and then sometimes I'm not so sure. Need some more time to process it I guess.

Also felt like we needed a little bit more in terms of the epilogue. After all this series was about its characters (which there are plenty of).

Spoiler

And after so many deaths during the last battle, we don't get any mention of them at all? Seriously?! Aviendha killed Rhuarc (and justified it to herself), but we don't get anything from Amys? Faile's parents are dead, and they're mentioned just once?! Also what was the point of the entire Elayne being pregnat thing, other than some silly plot points? I mean thank the light the kids weren't born - can't stand kids - but the pregnancy was forgotten whenever it was inconvenient and then it came back when she needs to channel. Bah!

But after some grumbling and braid-tugging (if I had braids), I can say that I loved it. I loved the journey. And I'll miss being in that world.

The wheel turns...