And herein, the latest in the Jordan re-read. I must say, it's not one of my favorites. Sea Folk? Irritating. Kin? Annoying. Seanchan? Boring AND irritating. Morgase-plot? Ugh. Egwene's schooling of the Hall of the Tower is pretty nifty, though, and the Ashaman-go-crazy-and-evil scene is nicely gripping. And when I first read it, the bit with Faile and the Shaido at the end was really awesome and gripping and cliff-hangy, but now that I know it's setting up the worst subplot in the history of all subplots ever, it just makes the book close on a really sour note.
So, in short, I'm glad the book is, well, short. But next is Winter's Heart, which is just boring, and Crossroads of Twilight, which is actively bad. At least neither of them is particularly long, either, and after that there's new (to me) territory in Knife of Dreams, so that'll be nice, at least. And in a few weeks, The Gathering Storm, to which I am looking forward rather intensely, somewhat to my surprise.
