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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 9760974" data-attributes="member: 6796241">That is some serious mission creep.  And yeah, my main concern with the series (and even the last three books) is that it needs a really good edit.  Maybe 25-30% cut out and it would really pop.  At the same time, I don't mind an author writing their way out of trouble and just going for it (King is like this as well) as opposed to getting stuck trying to release the 'perfect' book (ahem...Martin...). As a whole, the final three books were incredible, and yes, stuck the landing, though I would have liked to have seen the women of the series with a bit more to do in Memory of Light.  They all had big moments, but boy did it spend a lot of page count on secondary male characters while the ladies were left in the background, espcially during the Last Battle.I have a feeling the series will grow on me, espcially on a second reading, I liked but didn't love the end of the Dark Tower when I first finished it (that series I read along with each release over a couple decades, and was sort of my Wheel of Time) and thought the middle book Wizard and Glass to be completely superfluous, but on 2nd read that 4th book is now my favorite and I think the ending is perhaps the best fantasy ending of all time.One last note on WoT.  As I'm reading The Last Battle, I couldn't help but think that this was what the end of the Skywalker saga should have been.  And I think that JJ may have even been trying to crib from WoT when he made Rise of Skywalker, but of course if you don't earn an end like that you can't just pop it in and expect it to have any emotional impact.  On the flip side, I always thought Jordan was heavily influenced by the OT, and in some ways The Last Battle did remind me of the climactic battle in Return of the Jedi.  And so the Wheel keeps turning, weaving as it will.</blockquote>

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