** spoiler alert ** 
 I hid the entire review for spoilers for a reason! If you are currently reading this series and haven't finished this book yet, or if you are planning on reading this series, DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW!!! YOU WILL HATE YOURSELF FOREVER!!! I felt like I simply couldn't write a review of the end of the Wheel of Time without mentioning certain events and people. I MEAN IT PEOPLE!!! DON'T READ THIS REVIEW UNLESS YOU'VE FINISHED THIS BOOK!!! 
 Also, please note that I listened to all 14 books on audiobook, and therefore I may have some spelling errors, having never seen some of the names printed. Please excuse any of these errors. 
 Let's get the bulk of my heartache out first: Egwene's death. There. I said it. It's like a knife in the stomach just mentioning it, and I still can't believe it happened. I know HOW it happened, and I know WHY it happened, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. I hate that Egwene died with every ounce of fury that my body can hold. She has been there since the very first pages of Book 1. She was a constant companion, a main character of epic proportions. She had huge influence and brought so much good to all situations around her. She had a special bond with the Aiel and overcame the Aes Sedai's wishes to make her a puppet Amyrlin and went on to unite the broken white tower and set up a student exchange program between the Aiel wise ones and the Windwalkers. Hers is a loss I'm going to mourn for a long time, and mars what could have been the perfect ending to the series. Literally, I cannot stress enough the hole that Egwene's death has left in my heart. 
 I KNOW that there had to be huge sacrifices at the last battle. I know that deaths had to occur that would break my heart. Like Bashere, who was the Dragon's trusted companion through some of his darkest hours. 
 LIKE SIUAN and GARETH. Oh their death hurt. And Gowan. It was right at about three quarters of the way through the book, when Gowan fell, then Siuan and Gareth, that I started losing hope for this book. I cried and told Jonah that I regretted reading this book at all. I put it off for months because I didn't want to deal with the losses I knew would come. And then EGWENE died and I wanted to hurl my iPod across the road and curse Jordan's grave. And Sanderson for keeping that in the book. It's just the death that crosses the line. It's like if Ron or Hermione had died in the HP books. It would have been JUST TOO MUCH. Maybe I can come to terms with Egwene's death one day. She went down amazingly, healing the effects of bale fire and taking an arrogant Forsaken with her. 
 Things I LOVED: Mat. Oh my gosh, he was so funny and BRILLIANT. Mat is the unsung hero of the entire series, the man who had to be there to save everyone. Each of them, Rand, Perrin, and Mat all had their parts to play, and they would have failed without each other, but I think Mat is the hero of the story. 
 I loved how things turned out for Rand. All burden gone. Channeling gone. Slipping away to a quiet life free of care. He deserves that rest and peace. 
 I knew that the Dark One should not be killed ever since Rand started considering it. When Rand saw that thread of possibility of the world without the Dark One it was exactly what I had expected. The trick with getting Moridin to pick up Callandor and beating the dark one with a link with Moiraine and Nynaeve was EXCELLENT and BRILLIANT. I despaired for most of the book, wondering how Rand was going to win that fight. and I thought that was satisfyingly perfect. 
 I never much liked Faile but for Perrin's sake I'm glad she made it. Perrin, who hates being nobility, is now the King of Saldaea. HAHAHAHA. To Faile's credit, she was amazingly brave and heroic. 
 Oh, I wept when Birgitte died so horridly, and I wept with joy when she was reborn!!! She was reborn into the pattern the way she should be, a hero of the horn again. I was SO HAPPY. 
 When Jain Farstrider saves Olver from certain death I literally cheered!!! I was so happy to see our friend Noal back. 
 I loved Sanderson's writing. He did an exceptional job of changing his style to mimic more of Jordan's, but there were still differences that hailed him as an exceptional writer. I enjoyed it very much, and laughed out loud a few times at Mat's anecdotes. 
 I LOVE that Cadsuane becomes Amyrlin. I loved how the Aes Sedai used her own words against her, "You always told the Dragon Reborn about how responsibility must be taken seriously...." 
 Nynaeve is the most important Aes Sedai of her age, and after 14 books, she is still my favorite character. She has healed Stilling, healed insanity, and has more talent and potential than any other, I believe. I'm so happy for her. She has her Lan, and she has become the Queen of his nation with him. SO PERFECT. 
 This is actually a terrible book review, more of a journal of my thoughts and feelings fresh from finishing the book. I may add to it later. 
 The loss of a star for the epic finale is a tribute to the loss of Egwene al'Vere.