Pleasantly surprised, Brandon Sanderson seems to have done a good job. While some sections seem heavy on back history, it still feels like a Robert Jordan book. I have no idea how much of Memory of light had been completed before Jordan's death, but it looks as if the ending they are put together here will be good. Now I just have to be patient and wait for the other 2/3 of it to be published.
Their really wasn't much here to sink your teeth into. The mystery with the ballerinas was to short and didn't really explain why it truly need it to involve National Secrets. That macguffin was very clumsily used in this story just to give a brief action sequence. While a number of other historical back stories were the true meat of this book. In the end this didn't feel like a complete book. Everything in it was positioning for the next book. While that can be ok, it could of been done in a short story and not feel like the author was just filling a contractual obligation.