Reviews

Maybe if I bother to reread this at some point I would enjoy it more. The stereotypical Sanderlanche felt like it started the halfway point, but rather than being amped for half of the book, I was just reading to finish it. Everything in the spiritual realm was hard to follow. I did enjoy Adolin’s storyline though.

I need to take some time to process this one. For the fourth book straight, Adolin Kholin stole the show for me. I was honestly worried through the first half of this book. A lot of things felt off to me. The therapy talk was really corny. A few characters—Kaladin & Szeth for example—felt as though their voices had completely changed. There were so many callbacks to scenes in previous books that it seemed this book wasn’t even trying to stand on its own. But the ending. Oh, the ending. The redemption. The sacrifice. The growth. Not a single character ended up where I thought they be or even completely where I had hoped, as is life. Four years of online theories & I never saw any of them come to fruition, but I was satisfied. It made sense. That is where this story was heading this entire time. I love these characters. I’ve spent so much time with them. I am genuinely mourning them & I’ll think so much over the next few week—perhaps months or even years—about their stories. I’ll need to re-visit Roshar soon, to get to know my friends all over again. In the meantime, I may take a little break from reading to let this one settle. After all, journey before destination, right?