Well, I've finished and let it set in a little bit. It left me with a smile. It was the ending but I can't help but wonder.

Sanderson did a commendable job finishing an overwhelming project. I do fill that Jordan would have let some

things marinate if he could have lived to do so but it was important to have an ending to the series nontheless.

 

So, basically we got there to the summit of the mountain but we took the straight line. Jordan would have took

us around it and let us see all of the trees....and teach us how to properly wash silk. lol. It's not always the destination but

it's the journey. Jordan was best at the journey part. Sanderson gave us the destination. Which was better is left

to us to decide. I say thanks to both men. Well done.

More like getting to the summit and finding a bunch of empty plastic water bottles and candy wrappers laying around from the last group, and another summit over to the left that you didn't notice before, with no hope of climbing and no idea even how to get over there.

 Just finished another read of the book. Now that I'm fully free of the "Last WoT Book" glamour, I can honestly say: in any other context, this would have been a pretty good book. As the end of an epic nearly a quarter-century in the making... I would rather Harriet had left things alone and the story ended where Robert left us. The more time I've had to digest it, the more I dislike it.

 This isn't a bash on Sanderson- I honestly like his other work. I have read all of it. I can't wait for the next Stormlight to arrive. I just think he was the wrong choice to finish WoT.

 Perhaps there was no right choice. Perhaps I'd have been disappointed no matter what. Just seems like he didn't even try to make Demandred an interesting character, didn't try to make him a character at all- just something to fill space with useless bellowing every once in a while and a tool to facilitate the (not very) sad, heroic death of the (not very) heroic and sympathetic Gawyn.

 Moiraine was less than an afterthought, should have been SO much more.

 Bah... I'm not going to list all my grievances. You get the picture.

 The more I reflect, the more I'm bummed about the book. So many things didn't happen that I was looking fwd to, that I invested 23 years into gearing up for.

 In short- the book was great, the ending... was ok.