EDIT: Apparently Jason posted an early draft of the review by mistake. Or that happened due to some glitch with the new forum. Either way, he's said he'll repost the final one with many juicy spoilers soon. We're to ignore all that was said in the old one, it seems.



Jason's very confused review, which meanders back and forth, and definitely has some sentences incomplete, is linked below.

Important things I got out of it (SPOILERS):

1) Perrin has a slow start, but has an awesome finale. Taken with a grain of salt, of course, this being Jason. But it seems something out of the blue happens, which may be fun. "She" is not involved apparently. Does he mean Faile? OR Berelain? Perrin also has a lot of action, which if true, will be good.

2) Ituralde cannot catch a break. Is he going to lead a major defense against the Trollocs? Or is Graendal going to put a wrench in his plans?

3) Olver does something heart wrenching which shows the price the characters have to pay for victory. No clues about this.

4) Mat is awesome. And that's about all there is about him in the review.

5) A last throwaway line says that the story begins with Rand walking down the mountain to have a long overdue chat with somebody. Obviously, this is Egwene, and I'm deeply peeved this is the first chapter. Like DomA said in an other thread, this messes up timelines heavily. And also takes away from the final moments of tGS. Egwene saying that someday they will find out the significance of the break in the clouds sounded like Foreshadowing for a later meeting with Rand. Apparently, she's going to meet him in a few hours. Not cool at all.

6) Interesting that three apparently distinct climaxes happen one after the other. We've seen such stuff before, so I hope it gets handled well.

7) Elayne is barely mentioned. I won't be happy if she is sidelined.

Apparently, a lot of chapters end up resolving a load of foreshadowing and prophesies. I don't know how well this will work out, but I'm optimistic for now.