Agree. I liked the wrap except for Perrin searching around for Faile.
Pretty good. I tired a little bit of the alternate scenarios but understood the reason for them. I also thought he returned to his former whiny self a little too much but enjoyed his character over all.
I tired a little of the constant yelling for Lews Therin to come meet him but overall I liked Demandred. I do agree with Tom and others that he was really underutilized but given the fact that he was in Shara I don't know how much could have been done otherwise. I liked how he made chump change of Double G. They were thought to be so skilled in the earlier books but he just shredded them without that much effort. I loved Lan defeating him, it was... fitting. The only thing that bothered me about Demandred was that he never really go the point that Rand WASN'T THERE!!! I mean, really, did he expect Lews Therin to be on the battlefield rather than at Shayul Ghul??? I also loved Lan's interaction with Tam where he told him he had wondered who had given him the heron marked sword and now he knew. That moment felt like Tam's true spotlight moment in the entire series.
I liked these interactions overall. No, Sanderson doesn't do Mat like Jordan but I can live with that. He is such a fan favorite through the entire series that Sanderson could never have lived up to Jordan's Mat, but overall Matt and Tuon were good for me.
Yes, I quite enjoyed the entire pacing. We had 13 books of character development. It was time for the Last Battle. I was surprised at how long it was developed from the four fronts into one final push against the Dark One's forces but Sanderson wrote it well. I had just finished The Way of Kings where there is a lot of battlefield/battlecamp presence and I could definitely tell it was Sanderson's style in the writing.
It was OK for me. I liked Cadsuane's realization at what had happened. It felt like she was proud at his cleverness, I could just envision her smiling to herself and thinking "how clever".
Grew very tired of the neverending chasing around and so on. I was happy when it was finally over, except it wasn't because then he continued running around endlessly looking for Faile.
I was OK with Moraine, I'm not sure what people really expected of her. I was a little disappointed at the lack of explanation about just what had happened in the Tower of Ghenji to rescue her. Oh well, I'm not really sure it was Sanderson's place to write that scene anyway.
I liked Lanfear's final trick. I did not see that one coming at all. I had just figured throughout the book that she had pretty much resigned herself to laying low and not rally participating so when she flipped in the end was shown to be totally unremorseful and totally up t her own schemes, I was like Bam! Should have saw it but didn't at all.
Yeah, he really didn't end up doing that much. I didn't really get whether the empty skin of Shadar Haran (was that the Myrdraal's name?) was really him the whole time or whether he was saying that the Dark One had created him but then discarded him.
I enjoyed it and felt, for a lack of a better word, happy in the end. I was happy the series was over but also pleased at how the entire thing overall turned out. The series was fun, I even gave both of my 12 year old nieces a copy of The Eye of the World for their birthday. I hope they pick it up one day and have as much enjoyment with the series as I did over the years.
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings