If this is an indication of what Brandon is really capable of (for the WOT project, I knew he was capable of this in his own books) when he's given all the time he needs to write and polish his stuff instead of rushing to meet a deadline, that bodes really well for AMOL.

He was good at handling the themes and motifs in TGS/TOM. I pointed that out as one of his strengths in my review of TGS. He always shown great understanding of where RJ was going with that. It just lacked polish and a bit of depth. Not anymore.

He's fooled me. That really read like a RJ draft, with some un-RJ like tweakings of language but otherwise terribly RJ-esque. If that's a taste of what he'll deliver in AMOL, I'll be the last one to complain.