This book does nothing to advance anything. There is no excitement. In fact, other than a very brief chase for Mat and something happening to Egwene on the last page, you literally spend 700 pages suffering. This was a miserable excuse from a book. You can almost tell the exact moment Robert Jordan stopped writing his original story and started writing this [stuff] for the money. Don't buy this book. I could summarize the non-existent "plots" in less than 20 pages.