I loved this book.  This gives a great back story to several of the very important side characters in the Wheel of Time series.  The story is very well done and has a lot of great information, while at the same time is well enough encapsulated that it can be read without having read the series.  I like the way it shows all the characters that are grown up in the later books as younger and more inexperienced people in this book.

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