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I've never been big on fantasy books that include planet travel. Breaks the immersion for me. Additionally, it bugs me that all the characters just accept other planets with no confusion or questions. But I guess this world is just more scientifically advanced than I like my fantasy worlds to be. I'd rather fantasy characters think of celestial bodies with wonder and confusion.

Is Kate Reading okay? Her voice has changed, slower and lower, like maybe she's sick.

NOOOOOOOOOOO

Wit is sleeping with who?!

King Taravangian might be my favorite character. His actions are so villainous but his intentions are pure. He truly wants to save humanity, and will make the horrific sacrifices necessary. He's a foil to Dalinar, who is also determined to save humanity, but with 'honor'. My heart goes out to dumb Taravangian who is full of empathy, but trapped by his own crimes and actions.

Kaladin is a complete idiot.

The manic pixie dream girl is learning to be depressed.

DNF and returned to library. I'm still intrigued by this book, but when given the choice to reach for House of Leaves or one of the Stormlight Archive books, I reached for Sanderson every time.

Also it seems Kaladin might have a potential love interest on the other side... Though now that he's focusing on being a surgeon I'm not sure how they're going to see each other again.

We're getting a lot more Navani than Dalinar or Jasnah, which kind of bums me out, but is also intriguing. She's building important machines and getting death threats for it. I don't think Sanderson can write a boring character!

Adolin is turning into quite the dandy. Good for him. He's a heterosexual manly man who loves clothes and fashion, and we need more of that.

And for all that I love his father too, Dalinar is a strict military man, who does not approve of frivolous or unprofessional dress. Adolin needs to break away from his father's control. This is good for him.

(3/3) -share his own. While she hasn't shared everything yet you can tell that Adolin will understand her horrible secrets when/if she eventually tells him, and will also understand if she keeps them. He has the openness and empathy to do that. Whereas Kaladin would fucking explod. I truly couldn't see him and Shallan together. Meanwhile Shallan and Adolin seem like a perfect match, even when one half is broken.

(2/3) Meanwhile Adolin has been vulnerable with Shallan. When he eventually did something he couldn't share, it tortured him. When he finally did confess, Shallan was the first person he told.

Meanwhile Shallan, for all that she's also charismatic and fun and seemingly open like Adolin, has a million secrets, many very painful. She hasn't shared all of them, but her sharing one is what made Adolin break down and-

Thank god the Shallan/Kaladin nonsense is over. I've liked Shallan and Adolin since it started; Adolin is both heroic and charming, and he has a tenderness to him that Kaladin doesn't.

Kaladin has become a real jerk since the first book, understandably, and while I still like him as a protag, he had zero vulnerability with Shallan, even during the scenes when we saw his and Shallan's attraction to each other.

(3/3) Bitch, she can't spend her time being an engineer because she's managing YOUR kingdom, and doing YOUR job! 💢

(2/3) mysterious guests. Her appearance scares off the creepy visitors, and Navani demands to know what's going on. Angered, the king starts insulting her to deflect. The most painful, the one that cuts to her heart, is the accusation that she's not an engineer, she's a wannabe, who spends all her time fawning over powerful people, instead of tinkering and making things.

(1/2) Oh, this infuriates me. (In a good way.) Navani manages a great feast, while her husband the king is absent. She's frustrated, overwhelmed, and needs help. A great fabre'en visits, and she desperately wants to talk to the engineer (as she herself is also an engineer) but she can't get away from the servants and guests demanding her time. She finally finds the king (in HER workshop) talking with-

Shallan is losing her damn mind.

Ugh, please do not become a love triangle.

The problem with reading a 15 year old book series is that even looking up the smallest thing can leak spoilers!

!!!! These books have made me cry a dozen times, probably because my hormones and health are such a mess right now, but hearing Donut tell the past Immani that everything is alright, that she moved away from her horrible family, made new friends and family, and lived happily ever after - Christ, I'm tearing up again, because that's both true and wrong in so many ways.

Who the hell told me this series was a palete cleanser? Yeah, it's full of over the top fights and silly character designs and a man runny around with a fluffy talking cat, but this dungeon game is a corporate dystopia of the slave variety. Darker than dark.

"We still have explosives left from last time," Epiny exclaimed with a bright smile.

Protect this Victorian woman at all costs. 😭

The book, you fool! Your task was to write the journal and get it to the queen!

It's HERE! ❤️👐

"It still unnerved me to find that my size stirred feelings of extreme dislike in people, even when I have given them no other cause to take offense."

So Gideon and Nona are apparently simultaneously occupying separate bodies — which blows up the "Nona is Gideon" theory entirely, or at least complicates it beyond recognition.

Wut. What?!?!????? Gideon just woke up in her body! And Nona is right there! Still there! That's not how it's supposed to work! 😠😭 The author is just fucking with us at this point!

Okay, Nona is dying because her soul isn't meant to be in this body, which is confirmed to be Harrowhark's body. So Nona is not Harrowhark. She's most likely Gideon (which makes sense, Gideon would probably have been happy and carefree if the Ninth wasn't such a harsh place to live).

That also matches the end of the last book, with Gideon in Harrowhark's body. But that does not explain the memory loss.

Nona might be Gideon, Harrowhark, Alecto, or some Steven Universe soul-mesh of two. Nona's in Harrowhark's body with Camilla. Gideon's empty body is with Ianthe. But at the end of book 2, Harrowhark was with Ianthe and Gideon was dead. So how did— you know what, I'm just going to keep reading.