This book is rated 1.5 stars. That's too high for trash like this. It hurts me a little to make that comment, being an avid WOT fan and all, but it's the brutal truth. By now whoever's reading this has probably heard about the flaws of this book so I won't go into great detail on the matter. Instead I'll just give a short summary of the problems: 1 dimensional characters, stalled plot, uninteresting scenario's and an overall sense of bordom are what make this book so terrible. Literally nothing happens. I don't care to speculate on why Robert Jordan's works have declined so much in quality over the past few years, it's really not important. The fact is once he was a great writer, now he's not. Like many of Jordan's long time fan's, I'll definetly think about whether or not I'll pick up the next book in the series.