Maybe I just wanted to justify her death, instead of feeling like I just got punched in the gut.
I will have to say, when I first read the Eye of the World, I liked egwene the least of all the characters. By the time I turned the final page of a Memory of light, she was my favorite by a mile...
After Egwene parished fighting the sharans, olver sounded the horn of valere. I thought for sure that egwene was going to come back in all her amyrlin splendor as a hero of the horn.