A Memory of Light

The Final Book in the Wheel of Time , #14

Hardcover, 912 pages

English language

Published Jan. 7, 2013 by Orbit/Hachette.

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5 stars (80 reviews)

A MEMORY OF LIGHT

Book Fourteen of THE WHEEL OF TIME®

And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Dark lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died.

From Charal Drianaan te Calamon, The Cycle of the Dragon

In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join behind Rand al'Thor, or to stop him from his plan to break the seals on the Dark One's prison - which may be a sign of his madness, or the last hope of humankind. Egwene, the Amyrlin Seat, leans toward the former.

In Andor, the Trollocs seize Caemlyn.

In the wolf dream, Perrin Aybara battles Slayer.

Approaching Ebou Dar, Mat Cauthon plans to visit his wife Tuon, now Fortuona, Empress of the Seanchan.

All humanity is …

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reviewed A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #14)

The end years of reading in the making

4 stars

Starting the new year by finishing the Wheel of Time series certainly feels like starting with quite an achievement. Having finished the series I find it hard to come to a conclusion about my opinion of the series. Above all this series is a well thought out (and carefully planned) fantasy epic. It really draws the reader into the world, and introduces many finer details that add to the experience. The authors put a lot of thought into how such a world would work. They don't settle for simplistic extensions of the world, but instead introduce many concepts and then let the ways these would be used depend on the characters in the story. Coming back to book 9 of the series, after finishing book 8 in 2015, has been a strange experience. I loved the books back then, and couldn't put them down. When I started reading again, however, …

reviewed A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #14)

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5 stars

Egwene strode back onto the killing fields, bringing the fury of the Amyrlin with her.

I devoted 2014 to reading the Wheel of Time series and it's with a mix of happiness and sadness that I finish the series. This was an ambitious story and I'm glad it was given a proper ending. Like the previous books Sanderson wrote for this series this is a five star read. Everything in the previous 13 books has lead to this moment. Stories or characters from forgotten timelines, plots from old books, or artifacts you thought were misplaced, all come back and make for one epic read.

The last few books have been so high paced they were an exhausting read, and this one is no different. From page one the story hits the gas and doesn't let up until the end. I felt as exhausted as a Borderlander in battle reading this …

reviewed A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #14)

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5 stars

It took nine freakin' months, but I finally finished the Wheel of Time. Brandon Sanderson did an excellent job finishing the series.

This book was brutal. It was literally a 900+ page battle scene. Almost every single minor character and quite a few of the major characters died. Sweet.

The epilogue, written by Robert Jordan before he himself died, was maybe a little disappointing, but still not bad. Kind of sad that he clearly wanted to write more books, based on how he envisioned the ending.

So... Now what?

reviewed A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #14)

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5 stars

The epic finale of an epic series. An era is over. I was very skeptical of someone else finishing this fantasy masterpiece. I am wondering how much Robert Jordan is in there and what he had planned and what are decisions of Brandon Sanderson. When I forget that - which I do while reading - I was captivated by this book.

50% or more of it is taken up by the actual last battle. I am sure some people will cry out and say "that's too much". You would probably have said the "too little" if it was less than that.

The book is a worthy final book. It wraps up most things and on the last 20% I just couldn't stop reading.

Without wanting to spoil anything: yes some people had to die. Some people got to go like the heroes they are, some didn't. I loved the Forsaken …

reviewed A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #14)

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5 stars

The whole issue with the digital edition being delayed still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. However, I finally got to read it!

It's sad to say goodbye to so many old friends, but there were also a few laugh out loud moments. It was an ending, a fitting ending. Farewell, my friends, and good luck.

reviewed A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #14)

Review of 'A Memory of Light' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I forgot I still had this book open....

In any case, I finished this book back at the end of March, and was very pleased with how it wrapped everything up. I remember spending maybe a week trying to decide if I really enjoyed the book as a book, or really enjoyed the fact that the series was finally over. Not that I didn't enjoy the series, just that I had been looking forward to a conclusion for many (many) years. I eventually decided that I really did like the book as a book.

Sanderson is a talented writer, no question. I've read all of his stuff thus far, and while his early writing is somewhat less interesting to me (I had to force myself to finish Elantris, for example), he's come a long way. He took everything that Robert Jordan had set up and knocked it all down. The …

reviewed A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #14)

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5 stars

[a:Brandon Sanderson|38550|Brandon Sanderson|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1201547425p2/38550.jpg] had a very difficult challenge: to take the wonderfully creative world that Robert Jordan had created, and to put it back on track after Robert Jordan had lost control of the direction and plot. The last few books by Jordan had been almost painful, and they made it clear that the series would never finish.

Sanderson wrote the last three books, starting with [b:The Gathering Storm|1166599|The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time, #12; A Memory of Light, #1)|Robert Jordan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1312064325s/1166599.jpg|1920889] and continuing with [b:Towers of Midnight|8253920|Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time, #13; A Memory of Light, #2)|Robert Jordan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358109459s/8253920.jpg|7338128] he was doing a good job of returning to a plausible narrative. With this last book he pulled it off masterfully. I read it in a week and was riveted, and felt that he pulled it all in and developed a fantastic conclusion. I also felt that the hundreds of characters …

reviewed A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #14)

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4 stars

The fourteenth and final book of The Wheel Of Time took me three weeks of reading... well, nothing else, I think.
I grumbled quite a lot three weeks ago when I realized that the e-book version wouldn't come out immediately; my impatience got the better of my grumpiness and I went to my favorite bookshop to get it.
Impatience is also what I remember from the first books. I had started reading them in French, but the French translation was publishing two books in French for every book in English, and the pocket edition was very slow to appear after the larger edition - starting to read them in English was both a way to speed the process up... and making substantial savings! (because between one paperback and two hardbacks, the choice is easy.) And that was... a bit more than 15 years ago. This series has followed me for …

reviewed A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time, #14)

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5 stars

This book made up for every slow moment in the entire Wheel of Time series. All the stories come together in the last volume in a 900 page book that feels less than a third the size. I could not put the book down.

A Memory of Light completes Jordan's wonderful twist on the hero's journey. There aren't really any ends to the turning of the wheel of time, but this book provides an ending to a 23-year wait for fans, and the end makes me sad that there will never again be a joint work by Jordan and Sanderson.

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