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I'll give this a nod, but also because I'm a relatively fast reader, and I had read the OG 11 before.
Bar the idiosyncrasies that we all laugh (or cry) about the opening few books were solid fantasy with some excellent high points, and boy did RJ know how to finish a book in the early 5/6 (Dumai Wells!)
But
Sandersons take on the raid was fucking superb, I don't know RJ could have unleashed such badass

Onto Towers of midnight, a few too many Vignettes at the start, 5% and still doing short jumps, a mixture of relevant and irrelevant POVs, but Sanderson has me well back in

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Verin was very well played

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20% into Memory.
Some great sequences so far.

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46% into memory
I mean
How can this be less than half way?
It's the last battle

We are invading Shahol Ghul

How much can there be left?


Tiste

Is the blog worth it?

Yes

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And if you can stomach the blog, the slog is easy

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Last third.

Given how it is playing out, actually it's been paced very well.

Still curious as to who is going to die. A few who I thought were going to have scraped through so far

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And so ends the Wheel of Time.

I'd say the final 3 are worth the pain of 9 and 10.

I'd say a few deaths weren't needed, fairly low rent, a few scraped through and that robbed the actions of pure awesomeness, but still there is plenty.

The Forsaken, eh again on one level A little bit of a let down.

I think Fains story could have been excised like the prophet but that's a minor gripe, it was well enough wrapped up.


As characters developed, well beyond what Jordan did:
Egwene - fuck yeah, Sandy makes her 100% awesome
Nyneave - becomes a far more relatable person, dickishness down to basically zero
Mat - middle ground, better on some parts for sure
Lan - actual substance beyond choppy warder
Rand - finally let's go


A few twists and turns along the road, some telegraphed in a mile off, some fhck yeahs and some holy shits

Tuon and her ilk are still complete wankers.