A Memory of Light

Wheel of Time, Book 14

By: Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by: Michael Kramer, Kate Reading

Length: 41 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

Now an original series starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!

Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers and listeners around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters.

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.

In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken?

In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit of a man with golden eyes, and in pursuit of the Dragon Reborn.

In Cantorin, among the Sea Folk, High Lady Suroth plans the return of the Seanchan armies to the mainland.

In the Stone of Tear, the Lord Dragon considers his next move. It will be something no one expects, not the Black Ajah, not Tairen nobles, not Aes Sedai, not Egwene or Elayne or Nynaeve.

Against the Shadow rising stands the Dragon Reborn....

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Magical

I ended the series with a sense of calm, happiness, and tears in my eyes!

Magnifique 👌🏾

What a fitting ending and amazing narration. It’s a shame this is the one end of the WOT series

A must read

I just finished the series. Performance, writing, the end.. all great. Check it out, this series wont disappoint.

Perfect ending to a Legend.

What a perfect ending to one of the best worlds of fantasy ever produced! Brandon Sanderson did such a fantastic job at finishing out the series. Both narrators were amazing throughout, and the duality of narration elevated the experience. I don't know what I'm going to read next, but moving on to something else will be like climbing down from the peak of Dragonmount.

Such a great series

Sanderson really did justice to the ending of this series. Fantastic to the very end.

Best fantasy book series ever

I’ve read/listened to this series multiple times, and each time I find more things, more side stories, more details that I missed on my previous read-throughs. This entire series has such breadth and depth to it that you need to read it multiple times, but the way that Robert Jordan, and later Brandon Sanderson, present the story, you will want to read through the series again every few years.

The audiobook readers, Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, read the entire series for the audiobooks, and do a masterful job throughout. They bring life to all the characters in such a way that they become old friends, where I get to visit with them again and again, every time I listen to the audio series.

Yes

Thanks you Brandon Sanderson. What shoot off books can you write now to continue the tales?

Sad to see this story end!

Beautifully finished! Excellent story start to finish! Couldn’t have asked for a better series! Bravo

Glorious Tale of Memorable Personages

The Wheel of Time, with its 14 books and prequel, pulses with exquisite characterization and detailed portraiture of distinct cultures. Chapter after chapter, the reader encounters secret inner thoughts of a panoply of protagonists and antagonists. The inner sanctum of these personal dramas is so well portrayed that feelings of friendship, correlation and antipathy infuse the plot with immersive accompaniment. The reader seems to have actually met these characters and is enriched by knowing their stories unveiled.

The culmination of the drama as the end of the Third Age is presented in A Memory of Light is a fond farewell to friends who have risen victorious in the battle against the Shadow.

Among Jordan’s elements of inspiration such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and others, Jesus Christ seems to me to be a central driving influence. The Messiah’s total self-giving in fulfillment of prophecies, being wounded in the side, Vía Dolorosa accompanied by a strong woman who goes all the way to the place of execution with him, resurrection that used the lethal instrument meant to destroy him as the very means by which evil is defeated all echo the eucatastrophe theme in Tolkien and the Gospels.

Of course Jordan’s reincarnation theme is opposed to Christianity’s linear view of history. Souls hopping in and out of different bodies contradicts the essential relationship of body to soul manifest by Christ bearing in his resurrected body the wounds suffered in his passion and death. Polygamy opposed to monogamy, killing enemies by violence instead of atoning for enemy’s sins by self-sacrificial non violence and other non-Christian themes in the WOT do not dissuade from the radiant portrayal of love enduring even unto death resulting in new life as dawn shines upon flowers in Shayol Ghul!

Bitter Sweat Ending

Farewell old friends, I will miss you after 33 years of sharing your adventures, trials, tribulations, and triumphs.

The only thing I would change is to swap Egwene and Cadswene at the end to reverse who carries on into the New Age.