I just finished the AMOL half an hour ago. So it's still very fresh in my mind.

When I started this series last year, coming from finishing the Malazan series, feeling a void in my soul, I didn't expect to love and enjoy it this much.

Of course there are somethings that I didn't like, felt were rushed, or overall wasn't my favorite, but as an overall experience it was as awesome as one could wish.

I do have some thoughts which I like to share with all y'all folks:

1. I wouldn't wanna be in the position Brandon Sanderson was, tasked with finishing something this massive after RJ passed, and with everything in mind, he did crush it.
2. One of my only problems with the series was that the villians weren't very coherent. Like Padan Fain, at the start of the books he seems like the main villian, then after small cameos he's gone until the last two chapters to just be killed by Mat? Or Slayer, he could've been a mid level antagonist for a couple of the books, for Perrin's arc of finding who he really is. But as one of the final bad guys? It would have maybe been better if Padan Fain was the villian of the first arc of the boys, slayer the second, and so on. But that's just my opinion
3. Egwene and Gawyn. The elephants in the room. With Egwene I do get why people don't like her, but personally I loved her. A strong no nonsense girl with clear motives, doing everything she can for what she thinks is right. At times, and specially during the BS books, I felt like she was written as too antagonizing towards Rand just for the sake of being antagonizing. However in the end, she went in a goddamn blaze of glory, and her death was the one that almost broke me and made me get teary eyes. The only one of Emond's Field's kid to not make it to the end. But Gawyn, oh boy, he was annoying and dumb and stupid for no reason (kinda). I'm sure everything that can be said about him has been said. Even if the things he did made sense to him and were maybe logical, but they were annoying AF.
4. RJ could not write a realistic teenage girl at all. Let's leave it at that.
5. Our boy Mat, he become a caricature of himself just a bit. Like someone trying to immitate someone else and failing in small subtle ways, which make sense since Mat is supposed to be RJ, and BS is just trying to immitate him. At points he became a tad too whiny, but overall, my favoratie character.
6. Nynaeve. I saw people saying that she became on of their favorite characters by the end, but with the way that her story began, you could understand my skeptisim. I'm glad that I was proven wrong and she became a queen, a badass queen to her king.
7. One thing that I appriceated from BS writing style was how brutal he got at points. The scene of Birgitte dying, oh boy. I did not see that coming. I was shocked, beheaded, just like that. This is one of the things that I felt like was different in their writing styles, between RJ and BS. RJ writing was to my eyes a bit more, for the lack of a better word, softer, closer to the style of books aimed at a younger audience.
8. Why the hell did Mat spank Joline? I'm still baffeled by that. lol.
9. One thing that I really loved, where the foresaken. Specially the fact they were all idiots who had stumbled on to something bigger than themselves, and it made them think that they are bigger than what they are. And then get their bottoms whopped by some kids. The scene where I found out the foresakens were just stories to scare kids was the fight between Moghedien and Nynaeve.
10. This is a question, well two questions. At the end of the book, where Perrin says that he doesn't feel any tugs towards Rand, or no more swirls of color shows, I thought that it implied that the 3 weren't Ta'veren anymore. But the way Perrin finds Faile indicates that they are still Ta'veren. So are they or are they not? The final scene of Rand lighting the pipe I think indicates that they still are. So if they are, and we saw the Ta'veren work for those two, did it manifest for Mat too? Is Tuon's pregnancy the indication of Mat still being Ta'veren?

So, If you read all the way to the end of my nonsense ramblings and word vomit, thank you. I might come back here with more thoughts as I digest the story and ending longer.

I also apologize for any spelling mistakes or grammer mistakes or any other mistakes you might find.