I really enjoyed the book with the exception how Padain Fain showed up and then died a few chapters later anti-climatically. I guess some of the stuff they did with the gateways bothered me a bit since you had to be strong in the power to make a gateway so I assumed it took a lot of effort to make one. To have all these gateways being used throughout the battle while the Aes Sedai were saying they couldn't channel to lift a feather didn't make much sense to me.