Folks, let me start off by saying that I loved each of the first 9 books of this series. After finishing each, I couldn't wait for the next one to come out. However, in the last 2 books, Mr. Jordan has taken tens of thousands of words to painstakingly say absolutely nothing. With creations of fiction like this, he should take his talents to the speech writing corps for the Democratic Party. I have wasted [money] and two weeks of my free time reading his last two "efforts," and have in doing so, I have been played for a fool. I'll not be again. I won't spend another dime on his books, and will read the reviews to see if anything actually HAPPENS in the next novels before I borrow them with great trepidation from my local library.