After such a wait, what a disappointment! Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed the book, but nothing happened! Two years of waiting for another book of setup? The other frusteration I had(aside from the notable but perhaps understandable absense of Mat) is that plenty of stuff actually happens in the book, but RJ glosses over it all. Sure plenty of setup for next time, which will probably have us all begging for forgiveness for our lack of faith, but did it really take that long to write? Things were just so vague. He continued on with his grand tradition of greatly detailed character work, but that's about it. My biggest disappointments were the brief description of the battles with the Seanchan, and the sketchy description of what happened at the end. Ah well, lets just all cross our fingers that the next one (which will probably knock our collective socks off) comes much more swiftly.