This book started out rough. I came very, very close to giving up on this series when I had to endure 50-some odd pages of the female characters sitting around talking about boys.

Luckily, after that section of the book, it was actually halfway decent. Not great. Just tolerable. A battle here and there. Female characters still being awful nags, but at least that wasn't the majority of the book.

It's still going to be a chore to make it through all 14+ Wheel of Time books, I suspect. But, since I'm a masochist, bring on book 5.