This is the penultimate book in the Wheel of Times series.
Rand visits Egwene in the White Tower to tell her about part of his plan for the last battle and sets a meeting to discuss it. Egwene disagrees with his plan and tries to line up allies for her viewpoint.
While Perrin and his army are traveling they run into the Children of the Light. Perrin had several bad encounters with them previously. He submits to a trial by a neutral party and is found guilty with the sentence to be named by the head of the Children of the Light after the last battle. The two groups separate but Perrin ends up coming to their aid.
Mat is still in Caemlyn where he comes up with a plot to kill a supernatural assassin that seems indestructible. He also is working on a special weapon to be used in the last battle. At the end of the book, Mat, along with two companions, enters a mystical tower inhabited by snakelike and foxlike humanoids who are tricksters. They attempt to save the Aes Sedai Moraine. They thought she was dead but had found out that she was trapped in the Tower of Ghenjei.
I liked listening to this more than when I read it years ago. I still found parts of it lacking. For one, the ordering and intersection of the plots was jumbled. Secondly, I did not feel like the dialogue was true to some of characters considering I had read the series before and listened to it recently. It makes me wonder if Jordan had written most of the twelfth book but Sanderson wrote most of this one or I just noticed the difference more.
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