Ouch!
01-08-2013, 07:43 PM
There's got to be others here pretty stoked that this came out today. For those who don't know, A Memory of Light the final (and fourteenth) book of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series hit shelves today. Jordan died in 2007, leaving behind an incomplete final manuscript for the last book and notes for its completion. His wife selected Brandon Sanderson to finish the series in her late husband's place. Together, they decided that the final volume Jordan intended was too massive to print and would instead be divided into three volumes, the last of which is now available.
I picked up my copy before grabbing some lunch at work today, and I'll be cracking it open on my subway ride home. I'm fairly critical of the series as a whole. It engages in every single trope in a fantasy series imaginable (farmer boy finds out he's the chosen one, evil villain ambiguously called the dark one reawakening after being sealed long ago) but when I started reading the books a couple years ago, I couldn't put them down, and I'm glad to finally finish the story.
I picked up my copy before grabbing some lunch at work today, and I'll be cracking it open on my subway ride home. I'm fairly critical of the series as a whole. It engages in every single trope in a fantasy series imaginable (farmer boy finds out he's the chosen one, evil villain ambiguously called the dark one reawakening after being sealed long ago) but when I started reading the books a couple years ago, I couldn't put them down, and I'm glad to finally finish the story.