It’s here, it’s here, it’s here. It’s A Memory of Light . It’s the last Wheel of Time book, and it’s in my hot little hands. True to form, it’s enormous: two and a half pounds, two and a quarter inches thick, and 909 pages—all of it to tell the story of a backcountry farm boy who finds out he’s the Dragon Reborn, a hero out of prophecies, destined to defeat the Dark One, and probably die doing it. Here is how author Robert Jordan described the story, when he was asked to summarize it:
Cultures clash, worlds change, cope.
You’ll note that’s not actually Robert Jordan. It’s his widow and editor Harriet McDougal. Tragically, Jordan could not finish his epic work by himself. The series he originally planned as six books had stretched to book eleven when he died in 2007. McDougal picked fantasy author Brandon Sanderson to finish the last book, which—no surprise here—grew from one, to three volumes.
It was like getting hit with a freight train. There was, you know, all this continuity and all these characters, it was a massive undertaking.
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