Perrin moments swung through 180 degrees from awesome to infuriating and cringe worthy. Little things were often my favorites. Like: "Neverborn!" "They have caged Shadowkiller!"
The one thing that bothered me was the ease with which he killed Lanfear. Sure he had to do it because Rand couldn't and this was obviously the third time Rand would have failed if he wasn't there. But as a fellow Two Rivers man he would have had the same reluctance to kill a woman. As did Matt. Both before and after Dumai's Wells, Perrin fought with Rand over Rand's treatment of the Aes Sedai. Going from that point to reaching out and snapping Lanfear's neck, no matter how much she deserved it, is a pretty big change.
Very few things from the Sanderson trilogy have made these lists just for the very reason that his characterization is so off and shoddy, that it's hard to reconcile things people do in the MoL trilogy with other stuff. One thing I did put on the lists was Nynaeve's test, but that was pretty much external, and drawing on her entire history and the well-established nature of the test for the shawl, so I only took from Sanderson's version the essential activities, namely, Nynaeve goes in, passes despite extra challenges, because of T'A'R skills, and refuses to apologize for making choices she believed were right. That's probably RJ details, but a lot of moments that were not building so heavily on the first 11 books weren't as comprehensible. Maybe had RJ written Perrin slaying Lanfear, we'd have got something more out of it, like possibly the belief that Faile is dead makes him more indifferent to these issues, or there might be some sense that this is an extreme thing for him to do, because this is the Last Battle and a time for extremes.
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
