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    Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time (Tor Hardcover)) (Hardback) By (author) Robert Jordan, By (author) Brandon Sanderson

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    Short Description for Towers of MidnightThe Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One's prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight. Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past, while an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck.
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    Its the end of the world as we knew it5

    John Middleton How you review a book like Towers of Midnight? Volume 13 of 14 (plus one prequel). 20 years in the making. Written by the living and the dead. The best answer I can come up with, spoiler free, is "very carefully".

    If you are reading this, I'm assuming you have read some - maybe not all - of the Wheel of Time series. If you haven't, well go and start, beginning with the Eye of the World (read the prequel after reading book 9 or 10 - that will help you keep going). If you have read some of the Wheel, but gave up sometime, think about giving it another go: this volume is almost all payoff for struggling through some dense plotting a while back. Plot threads are tied up, snipped off and wound up. You stop swearing at people doing stupid things (well, not as much anyway). I think this volume will make re-reading books 8-10 a different experience - if nothing else, the knowledge that this buildup is worthwhile, and there is an ending in sight, but it is more than that. Its clear now that much of that - maybe even (almost) all of it - was necessary.

    But what is it about? It?s the beginning of the Last Battle. al' Lan Mandragoran, the last King of Malkier is riding home to die. Trollocs are boiling out of the Blight. The Forsaken are scheming and dabbling in the affairs of men. In the face of that, Rand, Perrin and Mat must grow up and accept their destiny - and that is really the theme of the book, if not the whole series. It is just that now they are actually doing it.

    Towers of Midnight is almost all climax - Perrin's story starts off slowly, but picks up dramatically. Perrin has been a bit dull for a long time now, but here he really puts that behind him - albeit at great cost. Old mysteries are solved (but read the Glossary to be clear), Mesaana unmasked, the first Power-wrought weapons for 3000 years are made - and of course there is a rescue we have waited over 10 years to see.

    With A Memory of Light scheduled for late 2011/early 2012, the Wheel will cease turning after over 20 years. If that final volume is as good as this penultimate one, then the ending will be epic indeed. by John Middleton

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