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Wow. Just wow. Expertly done

This book is so awesome. Exactly what I need a romantasy to be. Plenty of adventuring, quests and marvelous world building, with romance woven throughout. Also kudos to the author for branching out and portraying a different kind of romance in this second installment compared to what we’re so used to seeing in the genre

So different from the first in a way. I love that we are already peeling back some mysteries and Im loving the direction taken. Let’s goooooo

Yaas the font size is huge! My eyes thank penguin randomhouse for the reprieve

The chapters are so short and for some reason I’m finding everything so… insipid. I had expected to be giggling from the comedy and swoon from the romance. Yet all I’m doing is wondering where the plot is, if there’s any. The chapter titles are somewhat amusing at least, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the freshness that assistsnt to the villain had

I am getting the feeling the author was inspired by the shadowhunter series for some of the features of this book.

I say this with the utmost silliness, but the attention to detail in describing every characters’ outfit, including npcs’, brings me back to the early 2010s fanfiction scene.

Don’t do this to me! I can’t be crying at 5am

Nice characterisation!

Every single time. Every single time I find myself at almost 5am crying of pure joy. Honor is back on the menu!

Taravangian interlude is awesome!!!

Honor. Is. Effing. Dead.

I want to start a petition to get Sanderson to write a novella where all Kaladin does is chill on vacation. I want to see this man happy and relaxed for once. Just a tiny break

Noooo Brandon!! Why did you have to introduce a criminological anachronism in the book? It could have just stayed a fun theory but why call it broken window theory when that was introduced in the 80s? The 1980s? Could have called it smashed fences theory… crumbling brick theory… rusted metal theory!

Such an unexpected book. I didn’t think the setting would be as such, and I’m pleasantly surprised by how seamlessly the worldbuilding has changed with the advancements. I won’t lie, I miss ashy Luthadel, but Elendel has great potential so far.

What an opener!!!

And so it begins…

Ohh that was a good plot twist!

When i see authors writing fantasy books with some Italian inspirations and then add Italian inspired names that make no sense, it makes me want to write a fantasy book set in Medieval England and name the main character Bitchard while his sidekick is Robbin. I swear, they always choose names that almost make sense in Italian but are so silly that they take me out of the narration.

Excited to start this but I’m also 10 pages in and have already encountered a personal pet peeve, the name ‘Nicolo’.

The plot is plodding along quite slowly despite the action packed nature of one of the two povs. I guess by contrast it makes the other one feel slower. I hope the author can tie the two together soon so they se get more character development in connection to the relationship.

I’m so beautifully confused. The only theory I have is that it might be a ‘The fifteen lives’ kinda twist. Time will tell

The writing is very fun and immersive… it’s just a pity that so many names and places fall into a weird italian uncanny valley, where nothing is actually Italian despite the cover suggesting it’s set in an alternate Venice, and yet everything is reminiscent of italy. But not even of a Venetian Italy.

Things are starting to pick up.

Savouring this bit by bit

Not me being almost done with this book and only realizing now why the author might have named two of the children Hiroshi and Nagasa.

Wow. This book is just… wow. The atmosphere os impeccable and I’m already loving the main characters.

I’m going to start to read this book tomorrow! Really excited to get to it!

The interview was a much needed change of pace. I hope we get a bit more variety in the second half in terms of dynamics, but overall a fun read.