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Akallabeth a écrit :Et pour ceux qui n'ont pas lu TGS : ne regardez pas!!!

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First of all, WHOAAAA.One of the best Prologues I've read in a LONG time.1. Lan's POV. Love the set-up. Shows how initially he's trying to worm his way out of his promise but eventually understands that this is NOT ABOUT JUST HIM. The Last Battle is here, the rules have now changed. EVERYONE deserves a chance to fight for his life, his family, his ideals, his home. I think as time passes there will be more and more until he can not deny them all and there will be the huge army that Nynaeve was hoping for when she set him on this path.2. Perrin's POV. Again, love the Wolf Dream. Shows the burden and responsibility of leadership and begins the plot arc that will finally hopefully wind up with Perrin regaining his testicles. One of my favorite parts of Perrin's story arc in The Shadow Rising was his growth as a leader in the Two Rivers mirrored by his cat and mouse game with Slayer in the Wolf Dream. Looks like this will be climaxing in this book as well.3. Graendal's POV. ARRRGH!!! Was one of the people in the camp that felt she died for real. Can't say I'm too displeased since it shows how truly smart and cunning she is. I've been concerned that there are in fact too many Forsaken lying around to deal with realistically in the last book or two so am pleased that at least Arangar got erased.It does bring up exactly HOW Grandeal will meet her comeuppance. I mean, honestly, I thought Rand's plan in tGS to killer her was simply genius. For her to be so damn smart and paranoid to anticipate EVEN THAT . . . how are you going to kill her?? Can't wait to find out. Maybe Nynaeve will do it since we have the seeds planted in this Prologue of Graendal noticing and targeting her.4. Galad's POV. I've always found Whitecloak-centric chapters a little tiresome but this wasn't bad. Feel badly for Galad's upcoming torture but I am looking forward to this eventually reuniting everyone with Perrin's group. I think this particular arc will end in Towers of Midnight with Galad meeting Morgase as well as Perrin and Bornhald and Byar finishing their story arc. I am 100% certain AT LEAST Byar is going to die. Looking forward again to Slayer questions being answered.5. Fain POV. Nice that he can now make Mashadar at will. The Gollum parallels become more and more pronounced. I guess I'm SLIGHTLY disappointed in how we sort of just jump right to Fain simply moving to Shayol Ghul. I guess I expected him to be more of a nuisance yet after all the trouble he's caused but I can't argue with the logic. Since Rand has basically become impossible to find lately, the logical and most reasonable thing for Fain to do is just track to Shayol Ghul where he has a legitimate chance at both Rand AND the Dark One.Still can't help but feel that he's slightly overmatched though. I mean Fain himself was just a Darkfriend hound and Mordeth/Mashadar while slightly more powerful never gave me the feeling that he was an evil of an order of magnitude to kill Worms and/or even come close to threatening the Dark One. His status as "wild card" outside the Pattern stands but I do hope for some more infodumps detailing exactly how/why Fain/Mordeth got to be so powerful.6. Borderlander POV. Very touching. Did choke me up a little and shows the sacrifices at the ground level that the Last Battle will require. A lot of people and I mean A LOT are not going to survive this. Hope the main characters can come through unscathed.Also makes me MAD AS HELL that the Borderland rulers took their f****ing armies away. I hope to dear God there was at least Forsaken level manipulation at work for such an act of MONUMENTAL stupidity and foolishness to be committed.Overall, again a FANTASTIC Prologue and if this is the level of quality we can expect from Towers of Midnight, color me very excited. Don't know how much of this was RJ and how much Sanderson but I honestly can tell you that I can't tell the difference at all at this point.