Revisiting the Wheel of Time: The Shadow Rising

I misspoke when I called this the Everybody Goes to Rhuidean book: it is, in fact, the Most People Go to Rhuidean, But Elayne and Nynaeve Go to Tanchico and Perrin Goes Home Book. For the first time in the series, the main characters don't all draw back together for a single finale.

Which is kind of key, from a structural point of view. I said in my discussion of The Dragon Reborn that Jordan's decision to not decide on series length was tantamount to taking the brake off the plot; to...