Well I don't know why but I walking into my BX in Japan where I'm currently stationed and they already had the book.  Bought it and read it and oh man it was epic.  Pretty much the whole book was at climax from beginning to end.  A little dissappointed in the very ending though, but with all series ending I usually am.  I'm always left with the and now what questions and want it to continue and see how people live afterwords but it will not be.  I was a little confused on some of the things happening but I think it is just because I haven't read the prior book in a long time and only read it once.

Luckily you didn't mention any horrific spoilers, but just to let you know there is a full spoiler board for aMoL. You should ideally post there if you wish to talk about it. This board here is for us folks who ain't read it yet,