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I finished up Oathbringer, which was brilliant and had it's own great satisfying climax, begging the question where does this series go half a dozen or more books down the road from now (I should be so lucky as to find out).
By default, I jumped back into WoT where I left off, and have done fairly well keeping the series straight, despite the shared readers and the former having been inspired substantially by the latter. I'll give Jordan credit for maintaining a satirical tone throughout, which does lend interest to his work, but the foundation of that satire is shallow, consisting mostly of "boys be like, girls be like" with arguably an undercurrent of "teenagers be like," though it is by no means clear that the author recognizes stages of development more advanced than adolescence. Sanderson much more effectively integrates characters at various stages of life (I think, as a childless person roughly his age).
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