TarValon.net has a spoiler-free advance review of the upcoming Wheel of Time book, The Gathering Storm up in their forum, following the one Dragonmount had published this July.
Yes, our narrator has changed. Sanderson’s writing is more focused on plot, and his style seems to put more weight on making things happen rather than world building. As we are in the concluding books in our story, this is especially welcome to the reader. Quite simply? Things happen. They happen fast. This book concludes things that have been plaguing me from the very beginning. The story moves forward in a fashion that satisfies and rewards invested readers. Our narrator has changed, and so the pace in which we hear the story has changed. But he serves this final part of the story exceedingly well and the characters speak true.
This latest review is quite encouraging. “Eleyan Sedai,” the reviewer and head of TarValon.net, is obviously a serious fan of the Wheel of Time series, so the review’s praise for Brandon Sanderson helps ease any doubts I still have about the upcoming book.
It’s going to be epic. 
The Gathering Storm will be released on October 27, 2009.
John November 9th
Have just read the book in 2 days and couldn’t put it down. It is right up there with the best of the series. Can’t believe I have another year to wait before the next one comes out.
Betty Schmieter August 1st
When is the next book (#13) being released? Will it be the last one?
the web site mentioned the possibility of a mini-series. Is that “in the works”?
redwall_hp August 2nd
It will be released November 2nd. And there will be one more after it.
Not sure about a mini-series, but there has been talk of Universal and Red Eagle working on a movie adaptation of The Eye of the World. Not much news on it lately, though.
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