Somewhat of a re-hash of a conversation Perrin and Rand already had in LOC. "Strange" that this didn't sparked any feeling of déjà vu among any of the editors...

Unless it's all told in the prologue - which is most unlikely - there's a sign (Caemlyn in flames) that Brandon is gonna fall into the trap of ordering scenes out of the story's chronological order (something RJ mostly avoided for good reasons.. except to his grief in COT). Fingers crossed he's at least not going to have characters jump back and forth on their own timeline...

And more of his bad writing in the vein of having Perrin smells savours instead of odours: "few grapes in the current world could match the favored wines of the AOL". Really? It's like saying cows don't match cheese.

Oh well, let's hope the story/events are good again, because this sure looks like writing wise this one will be as distracting and irritating as the last one.