DIdn't like Egwene much in the beginning of the book. Circlejerky and arrogant. Fell in love with her when she met Tuon. Most of the conversation was boring "lets be logical" stuff, but she let her feelings show and that was awesome. Even if the "i intend to live for centuries" did make me certain that she would die soon. She kept getting better from there. And then she died. Sad. Not super sad, but sad. Sorry to see her go. At least she went out swinging. But what would become of her legacy? Would the channelers ever achieve any kind of unity/cooperation without her?

And then the epilogue. Cadsuane is alive. Angry. Cadusane is alive while Egwene died. Very angry. Cadsuane is being made Amyrlin. Will not read the book again any time soon. While i did not like Egwene much over the rest of the books, i though she would be taking the WT in the right direction with only a slightly superior attitude towards everyone else. But Cadsuane? She will reinforce all negative prejudice anyone has against Aes Sedai. An awful injustice. A cruel twist.

e- then i remembered it's just a book and felt kind of stupid

"Must give up half the light of the world to save the world". The bolded part makes me think that it´s something more than just losing his eye (not that if i lost an eye i would think: oh no worries, it´s just an eye). Since he met up with Aludra again i´ve wondered if maybe at some point his cannons and other explosive goodies will turn the tide at some decisive battle during Tarmon Gaidon (saves the world). Yay, victory for the Light side. Woopee. However, after the Last Battle is won and the victory parties are over, these new technologies will be used in further conflicts and the results will be quite horrible (give up half the light of the world).

Not quite sure if the difference in slaughter-effectiveness between arrows/swords and gunpowder is enough to lend credibility to this theory though.

why didn´t Moiraine stab Lanfear instead of pushing her through the doorway?

Only reason i could think of is that rescuing Moiraine from the tower of Ghenjei makes for a more interesting read than:

Moiraine cleaned her dagger on Lanfears dress and sheathed it while thinking to herself: "Moiraine two, Forsaken zero"

The Forsaken getting sealed away with the Dark One. Always seemed a little too lucky for me. Any quotes out there that set the record straight? "Yeah, the Light side totally lucked out on that one." or "The Dark One knew what was coming, and since it was obvious he wouldn´t turn the Dragon this time, he/she/it just wanted some generals safely tucked away to be used next time."