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Ich habe mich ziemlich schnell und fast schon gierig durch die 414 Seiten gefressen. Wie ich finde ein gut geschriebenes Buch, dass einem recht eindrücklich vor Augen führt, wie die Eigendynamik dieses wahnsinnigen Krieges entstehen (und vor allem anhalten) konnte. Mit Blick auf die aktuelle Weltlage allerdings bei Weitem keine leichte Kost, fühlt man doch deutlich gewisse Parallelen.

Ob man dieses harte Thema Kindern ab 10 in die Hand drücken muss, sollte jeder für sich selbst entscheiden.

Yeah, THIS is what we all came here for, this is the ending this epic fantasy tale deserved.

Practically all lose ends are tied up, some maybe a tad hasty (like Padan Fain), but everything feels very satisfactory. And epic. Who'd have guess having 400+ pages of battle, war, fighting, struggle, dying could be so awesome.

Tons of people die. Of course. Lots of heroes are undone, new ones made. There's twists upon turns upon revalations. It's all truly wonderful and fantastic.

And best of all: There's no needless repetitions of stuff said 11 times over in prior books. So it's all meat and no gristle.

This book makes reading through 13 other times absolutely worthwhile.

I will say this book sufferes from everything I criticized about earlier volumes. It also suffers from the same sub-par proof-reading Gathering Storm did. Yet, there is SO much happening, so many threads finally coming together, and so much build-up for the grand finale - I actually really enjoyed reading Towers because of all this.

So far, this book is disappointing. The writing -which Sanderson explains in the Foreword that he kept his style, but matched it to Jordan's - is either sub par or needed much better copy editing. I've come across multiple instances where sentences started with the same word back to back. I've seen (and forgotten) other errors already. And just now a scene is described, where a person is said to "study the papers" only for a sentence shortly after to state for the same character to be "still watching her". With no described change in the situation. And I'm not 1/5 into the book.

This isn't helping my feeling at all, that I'm really only going to finish the series to HAVE itbfinisgrdit finished (again).