Kindle won't let me get the Prologue because of where I live so I'll have to wait for the book. Disappointing, but also kind of cool I guess. From what I've read of your different reviews of Graendal I'd like to make the following comments...

It's so awesome that she's alive. She was a major loss to the Shadow as a profoundly clever and evil woman. It seems that her mind moves so quickly that its almost unbelieveable, and she acts on instinct and without hesitation. She realizes that she's about to die, but STILL makes time to quickly snuff out Aran'gar (unless Aran'gar had time to unravel the knot and escape which seems unlikely). I really love this Forsaken. She'll need to get some Healing and without too many BA around that might be a problem, though she'll probably Compel a Yellow.

It was nice to see that she could possess an animal and use its eyes - very nice, almost new thing we're seeing. It's also great that she wants to kill Nynaeve. I'm surprised that Nynaeve's new nemesis might become Graendal - we all expected Semirhage, but she's dead I guess.

What a great twist! It makes the ending so much more exciting having Graendal there. She must have been a really nasty piece of work to try and kill in the War of Power, and she's left Rand responsible for a mass atrocity with no result - though perhaps the death of Aran'gar counts as a small victory.

(Also remember she has an angreal, so we can't judge her strength too easily).