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The World of Robert Jordan’s: The Wheel of Time is a fantastic companion book to The Wheel of Time series which is filled with additional world-building, histories, lore and includes several illustrations of maps. I loved that this book was a sort of in-universe history book as it’s written from the perspective of multiple scholars from this world and they informed the reader that all the information in this book was compiled from the earliest available records starting from the Age of Legends all the way through to the current New Era. It adds an interesting dynamic because the scholars know a lot of secrets that we the reader don’t know, but at the same time, the scholar also doesn’t know certain information (such as information on the White Tower and Aes Sedai), which we the reader know because we learned them from Egwene or Siuan’s POV chapters in the main series. This will be a spoiler review (since this book was written around halfway through the main series) and i...

A Memory of Light (Book 14) is a masterpiece and it’s a fitting conclusion to this epic series. This book was packed with remarkable action, jaw-dropping surprises, emotional moments, several poetic call-backs to previous events throughout the series and an ending that left me speechless. I’ve never read a book with this much action/warfare and never cried more than reading this. The Wheel of Time is a very long series and there are some lower quality books throughout, but it was all worth it just to get to this masterpiece of a book. It was such an amazing experience. On a side note, Robert Jordan was such a master of foreshadowing but his blessing was also a curse because he set up so many mysteries and questions and waited until the last books to answer them, that it felt impossible to cover them all, but also because he couldn’t answer them all in time because of his unfortunate passing. It’s not Brandon Sanderson’s fault, but I was looking forward to some more answ...

Towers of Midnight (Book 13) continues the high bar that was set by Brandon Sanderson ever since he took over the series. This book is a slight step lower than The Gathering Storm (Book 12) in my rankings, but it’s still one of the top 5 books of the series. A reason for that small dip is the overdose of Perrin chapters and Rand not having as much of a presence as he usually does. This book also suffers a little from an odd structure. The timelines were confusing at first until I caught on to what Sanderson was doing with Mat and Perrin’s chapters being a little bit behind the timeline of Rand and Egwene’s chapters. It ended on a high note though and it had great overall pacing, suspenseful action scenes, and remarkable character moments throughout. This will be a non-spoiler review and it will be covered in 4 sections: Characters, Plot, Pacing, and my final thoughts along with a rating. Image: Perrin forging Mah’alleinir (A hammer made with the One Power). [Characters]...