Synopsis: (from Goodreads) The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight.

The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age.

Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in Tel’aran’rhiod and find a way–at long last–to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever.

Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways–the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn–have confused him, taunted him, and left him hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other men’s lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again have to dance with the Snakes and the Foxes, playing a game that cannot be won. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.

This latest novel of Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling series–the second based on materials he left behind when he died in 2007–brings dramatic and compelling developments to many threads in the Pattern. The end draws near.

Dovie’andi se tovya sagain. It’s time to toss the dice.

There isn’t a lot I feel I need to say about this book. Everything that is happening is all leading to the Last Battle and the conclusion of the series. I will say that the pacing has picked up a great deal as the end of the world creeps closer. The characters reflect on their lives over the past two years, from the time when they left the Two Rivers til now. Faile has even redeemed herself in my eyes as she reflects on her own past behavior. I no longer want her to die, though she is still far from my favorite character.

I know this review is short and not much of a review at all, for which I apologize. I hope to have more to say after I finish A Memory of Light and complete the series. Please look forward to that post.

I give the Towers of Midnight 4/5 stars.