If I did not love these characters like family, I would admit to myself that this is just not a very good book.
For one thing, it is Mat'less, which is weak.
We spend a whole whole lot of time in Egwen's power struggle as Amyrlin, which has it's moments. And I wonder if the notion of a ruler taking extraordinary wartime powers felt like a fresh idea at the time? I don't know, seems so common these days that it feels kinda hackneyed. I raised a serious eyebrow when supposedly only 1 Aes Sedai was aware of the implications of what they were doing. That seemed kinda forced.
Anywho, a little happens in this book, the weather gets better, and then there is a big boom at the end. Fin.