The Great Hunt

I mean...
I like his characters. I like the world building. I find the story interesting.
BUT
I don't have a clear idea of what happened in the book. I just have an idea. Robert Jordan has a handful of people and then he spreads them around the world, now they are in these groups, now in others, and he jumps from one group to another, and drops the reader in the middle of a scene. I had to often go back in the story to check if I had missed something, or jumped over pages or scenes... I have a nasty feeling of that the publisher has actually missed pages of the manuscript.

I'm not sure of the timeline. I don't know how these different events relate to each other in time. Might be earlier or later or linear or what ever. I wouldn't know. I feel very uncertain, and that's not good.

I was listening to an audiobook, and in my ears the narrator pronounced Selene Sardine. I was wondering why Robert Jordan named her Sardine. I probably would have done better with a paperbook. And he has so many characters that I'm more or less confused all the time. And why... how... how can this person appear here, now? Where did she come from? Where did he come from? What is happening? And who was that, again?

The end of the book...these people kill the high lord, and then they go, and two witches walk in the witch slave house full of people who can sense magic, and three walk out... and then the streets are all empty and someone starts hurling streets and houses, but - nothing really happens about that, and the boys are in the city and see the explosions, but don't know the girls are there, and then there's suddenly white children or what ever they are, and the girls are trying to get to the harbor and the boys sound the horn, which apparently was totally unnecessary, and suddenly there's no-one around and Rand and bad guy fight and he kills him, and then the girls find Rand unconscious and... then he wakes up somewhere, the war is apparently over and the white coats are dead and the cheongsam sailed away even though all their ships were burned, and the girls are somewhere and Moiraine is there, and... what?

I am not going to read any more of these books, at least not as long as I can remember how confusing this experience is.