It's a bit confusing to explain exactly where I'm at because it splinters of into various different stories, but:
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They all get split up when a shit load of Trollocs chase them into river and then:
- Rand and Mat have just made it to the big city (Caemlyn?) after passing through innumerable small villages and being chased all over the shop by Trollocs and Fades and generally evil shit. Thom Merrilin appears to be dead but I don't think he will be.
- Perin and Egwene were on their own for a bit, met a man who somehow appears to have taught Perrin to talk to wolves (which is actually quite cool) and then got captured by the religious nutters in the white cloaks. The Children of the Light, or something.
- Morraine, Lan and a very reluctant Nynaeve (who can also use "the power" apparently, all the women can use the fucking power it seems) were just sort of trundling along at their own pace but have just found and rescued Perin and Egwene from the above situation.
So I'm guessing they will all reunite at some point for a bit of a final act.
No, I haven't read anything by that bloke. I've not heard of him before to be honest. Good?