Sanderson does a really good job of keeping true to Jordan's characters, and Jordan himself seems to have done a sort of reversion to the pacing and storytelling of the early Wheel of Time books. The result is a 900+ page book that feels a lot shorter than that. I'm really starting to look forward to Mat's fighting in the Last Battle alongside Rand and Perrin. The series really feels like it's coming to a close in the first two volumes of A Memory of Light.