As from here, Robert Jordan's passing meant that another person would have to expand on and continue Jordan's story so as to complete the entire Wheel of Time series (which, at 11 books not including prequel, is slowly outstaying their welcome). The final book was initially called A Memory of Light, but according to them, since there were still so many loose ends and other such things to be tied up, it will be split into three(!!!) volumes, thereby making it the final saga.
[This is worst than the final Harry Potter book getting the two-movie treatment.]
And we're not even bringing in the uncompleted prequels yet.
Anyway, the first volume, The Gathering Storm, will be released on October 27th of this year, and the publishers, Tor, has released the first chapter for free on their website (you can check it out here, but you'd have to sign up to be able to have access to it).
And surprisingly, I didn't hate it. And I'm an extreme purist.
In the beginning, it's VERY apparent that it's not Jordan's style of writing anymore, since Brandon Sanderson went into Ultra-Descriptive Mode about the general situation around, which really isn't wrong except that I'm not used to it (Jordan writes from the POV of each character, and that early part just threw me off a bit). But afterward when we got to Rand, it reads very much like Jordan.
Not sure whether there is a prologue or not (although knowing them, there probably will be), but the first chapter is intriguing. In a nutshell, it mentions a bit of their Nynaeve and Cadsuane's interrogation of Semirhage, a really sadistic chick who'd put ALL torture-porn filmmakers to shame (and then some), as well as Lews Therin's vague-and-incomplete words (but of course!) about how the absence of GIRL POWER!women brought about the downfall of the Hundred Companions back during the Age of Legends (which, as you can see, means a Long, Long Time Ago).
And they've still got three more tomes (no, really) to go :(
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