CAUTION: SPOILER ALERT! (I don't know how to do that Spoiler button I've seen in the other posts)
Just read through AMOL and BRAVO to Brandon Sanderson - very well done! I love his writing, and I am very happy with the ending of WoT. I do have a few questions:
1. Did Mandarb really die? He never explicitly writes Mandarb's supposed death. Perhaps he was deliberately ambiguous and leaves it for the reader to decide? On the one hand, to die displaying such heroics during the Last Battle would be honorable for this warrior of a horse. On the other hand, I REALLY wanted him to be able to live out that dream of retirement with Lan and Nynaeve's future kids riding on his back! And he was such a resourceful and badass horse - surely he could have made it out?
2. So Rand has entered the ultimate witness protection program. Does that mean he won't get to be a father to his kids? I mean, how is that gonna' work? If nobody is supposed to know his identity, and he starts hanging out with his kids, eventually people will put it together. It would not have bothered me when I first started reading the series 20 years ago, but it does now that I have kids of my own. That completely sucks if he can't see his kids. Is that the price to pay for being the ex-Dragon Reborn? Or maybe I should just accept that the hero rides off into the sunset and stop worrying about it too much.
3. Last, for a person who has very limited free time but devotes most of it to reading (and who ended up loving Sanderson's writing even more than Jordan's by the end of the series) what suggestions do other people have for similar series?
