(SPOILERS ahead for A Memory of Light!)
Finishing A Memory of Light, and The Wheel of Time series, was a very satisfying experience.
At DragonCon in September 2012 I had heard Brandon Sanderson say that when you reached the end of the book there was “a kind of serenity” that arrived as the Last Battle faded away and Robert Jordan re-asserted himself to close the narrative he had spent the last half of his life building. Brandon was absolutely right about that. Once I had finished A Memory of Light I felt that all my questions had been answered, that all the scenes and reunions and clashes I had wanted to see were a matter of memory now, and that the 14-book epic felt well and truly finished.
And then I couldn’t stop thinking of what I wanted next.
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