The Gathering Storm - Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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Unlike Wikipedia, I'm not going to tell you the story and ruin a great chapter in the Wheel of Time series. As a fan, you already know this is the first volume of the final "book" in the series. Well, if you haven't read it yet, get to it, now, yes it's really good.

First off, a couple of minor complaints. The first is that Jordan, throughout the series used, "had had" in sentences. Sometimes it would make sense, other times it was just pointless, one "had" will always suffice in any case. Now, Jordan died and Sanderson picked up the pieces and is making the final volumes whole, and in the pieces are parts of the story that Jordan had written. Obviously, the part I read that has the "had had" was written by Jordan because, if I recall correctly, there was only one instance.

The second mistake I caught because it's a pet peeve of mine, the erroneous use of some words that are spelled differently, but close to the same. In this book, I only noticed one such mistake, which is actually pretty good, and it came pretty late in the book so it was a little shocking to finally see this type of error when most of the book was error free. It comes about 3/4 of the way through, and the printed word is "where" but it should be "were."

So, minor mistakes, and very few... in fact one could really say there's only one technical mistake in the whole book. However, I'm a little confused... for some reason I thought the Ogier constructed the white tower using cuendillar. I'm pretty sure they didn't do that now, they're just really good at constructing using whatever material they used in building the white tower. If my thinking was correct, then part of the story would not make sense. So, there was a mistake on MY part. I got over it, I've looked up instances of cuendillar and I think I just assumed, and you know what happens when you ass-u-&-me.

Positive things... it's a great book. Period. The story, the flow, things are happening, good descriptions, it's got it all folks. I laughed, I cried (well, not cry, but you know what I mean) and I love that Sanderson correctly spelled "judgment." Not the British version "judgement," but the American, and correct, version of the word.

The editing. Like I said, "had had" was used once, and there was only one real word mistake. Comparing that to every other book in the series, it's a freekin miracle! Finally, I'm not wincing ever other chapter at some wierd mistake that should have been picked up. Great grammar, spelling, and, oh yeah, story. It all clicked thanks to great editing probably done by Sanderson himself.

SUMMARY: Get the book, read it, love it, and I told you so.

That is all.