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blairconrad 's review for:
A Memory of Light
by Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan
Awesome. From page one, the action started and never let up.
Here's a spoiler-free note that I sent to a friend early on:
Sanderson did an excellent job of getting us to the end of the story, skipping deftly between characters.
In most of the previous books (including Jordan's), there'd be a POV or two that I didn't enjoy as much and I'd count the pages until we could switch back to someone else. None of that here.
I think the writing was spot-on. In the previous two books I was aware that I was reading a WoT book written by Brandon Sanderson. This time, I was reading a WoT book.
Oh, and the terrible things that happened to good people. And the beautiful things that happened to good people. I think my wife feared for my sanity as I gasped, laughed, and cried my way through the book, torn between rushing to find out what happens and wanting to savour every page.
Of course, there are always complaints. I'm not entirely sure about the end. It raised more questions than I'd like, and there were still some big questions unanswered. And events that had been heavily foreshadowed for books and books ended up occurring offscreen, so that was a little disappointing. Still, a great ride - the best of the 14.
Here's a spoiler-free note that I sent to a friend early on:
- The Band of the Red Hand!
- 2 Forsaken!
- A scene that really reminded me of a scene from [b:A Good Man|11074570|A Good Man|Guy Vanderhaeghe|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1310572755l/11074570._SY75_.jpg|15996042].
- Things that some people are doing that someone else isn't sure why they are still doing it after something that happened sometime in the past happened!
- Caemlyn in flames!
- A place that we never heard of!
- A very splintery tabletop!
- A weird occurrence that's a bubble of evil! Or weakening of the Pattern or something.
- Hints about a mystery that was new to us last book and that when we learn more about it will probably end up being the answer to a question that we should've been asking ourselves since book 3 or 4, but we never did!
It's been a full 11 pages.
I'm spent.
Sanderson did an excellent job of getting us to the end of the story, skipping deftly between characters.
In most of the previous books (including Jordan's), there'd be a POV or two that I didn't enjoy as much and I'd count the pages until we could switch back to someone else. None of that here.
I think the writing was spot-on. In the previous two books I was aware that I was reading a WoT book written by Brandon Sanderson. This time, I was reading a WoT book.
Oh, and the terrible things that happened to good people. And the beautiful things that happened to good people. I think my wife feared for my sanity as I gasped, laughed, and cried my way through the book, torn between rushing to find out what happens and wanting to savour every page.
Of course, there are always complaints. I'm not entirely sure about the end. It raised more questions than I'd like, and there were still some big questions unanswered. And events that had been heavily foreshadowed for books and books ended up occurring offscreen, so that was a little disappointing. Still, a great ride - the best of the 14.