Jeez, this book series is overrated.

Granted, this has been the best book so far, but that really isn't saying much. All of the characters are grating morons, and you can see every plot point coming a mile away. I hate, hate, HATE the annoying way Robert Jordan presents female characters as nagging whorebeasts, and unfortunately they took up most of this book, since Rand basically worked in the background for the whole book.

It was kind of nice having the characters split up so there were some potentially interesting plot lines, but the "interesting" part never really happened. It was basically just characters following each other around to the same locations, so you could read the same town described in the same detail by three different people.

Ugh, but I'm a masochist. I've made it this far, so bring on book four.