Finally finished the book and here's my non-spoiler review:
Well I'm glad that's finally over.
Spoiler filled review:
Overall I was pretty happy with how the book was done, pretty much what could have been expected I guess.
The time-stretching thing to be able to have an epic battle for everyone else while having Rand's encounter not take so much time as well was ok.
Overall I liked how the final battle was handled, massive and well paced, with the good guys going from handling things to being ground down. Lots of cool story lines in there.
And FINALLY someone realizes what a gateway could actually be capable of doing, why are they casting fire and earth when a gateway under the enemy could just drop them all into the middle of the ocean?
Rand's battle with the Dark One is a bit more disappointing, I liked the potential future realities thing and how Rand had to come to a realization that he couldn't just kill the Dark One, but after that I was underwhelmed, though really I can't really expect more. The DO had to be properly sealed in the end for the wheel to continue, but having to use the true power to seal things eamlessly kind of implies the true power was used to create things in the first place.
Too much deus ex machina as always... Egwene coming up with a brand new weave at the right time, etc..
Thought Nyneave deserved better/more in the last book. And Perrin to some extent.
Thought the consequences to the good guys should have been worse, not just in terms of people dying, but the consequences to the world and society, and Rand. Even Rand not being able to channel at the end (which makes no sense, channelling is something about the soul, not the body, which was explained earlier in the book) could have been dramatic, instead Rand can just imagine things and they happen now or something.
And the last chapter was the worst; which makes sense because I think that I read RJ wrote it, not Sanderson.
Rand being transferred into Moridin's body (again deus ex machina!)? Really? That was incredibly lame. And then he just takes off leaving his father and friends to think he's dead but giggling over how awesome he is because he has 3 chicks who he can have sex with?? Rand spent a huge portion of the books being a dick, but wow.
Oh and the big sacrifice Rand made? Turns out it's no sacrifice at all!
The characters in the last chapter go past being stereotyped into being stereotypes of stereotypes, I can't even put to works how bad the last chapter is.
Pretend Rand dies and remove that last chapter and it's a better book.