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so this book is straight fire and I didn't realize how much my life was lacking in 16th century Christian communists calling me out

so much less propulsive than book 1 I am scientifically FASCINATED

so much better than the atlas six I want to cry

was it casual when we saved each other's lives and then made a blood pact to have me kill you if your magic ever got out of control ..... uhuh yeah totally :D

oh you BET it is time to hang out with Thara Celehar and his truant three act plot

WHY DID I WAIT SO FREAKING LONG TO READ THIS

Also beta read so far this year:
- M fantasy manuscript #1
- R romance manuscript
- K spec fic manuscript
- E historical fiction manuscript
- M fantasy manuscript #2

And now I should finally let it be over. Until the next book - Rutabaga!

Thank you, Brandon Sanderson. Thank you Hayley Lazo and Peter Ahlstrom and Isaac Stewart and everyone else, thank you CW and Gabriel and Catherine and all my other Smedry Sanderfan friends, thank you Tor Books, King's English, Tor.com...but thank you so much, Brandon Sanderson, for writing these books, for creating Alcatraz and his wonderful sense of humor and his darkness. He has genuinely changed my life.

That was good. I still need to process, but that was good. And the illustrations...so perfect. I mean, page 280...my heart...

How the cake does Brandon Sanderson manage to mess so effectively with expectations five books in a row...

Okay. I need to stop and process now. That was...the first word that came to mind was "amazing", but that's not quite it. The ending was right. It was what Alcatraz was building towards, the kind of thing I was expecting: failure, darkness. And yet there was a twist with the whole Bastille business - and that's also necessary for a true Alcatraz ending.

So my Not-Spoilers were right and there's going to be another book...but it'll be written by Bastille. I'm still a little bothered that Sanderson is going to drag this out more, but it makes it much better that Bastille will be the narrator. If he can pull it off and give her a distinct voice and tie up the magical stuff and, most importantly, bring closure to the themes of the series...this might work.

Bastille. This is definitely going to be interesting.

Bastille Smedry <3
I love how the shipping hints get progressively more blatant in each book, but never actually come out and say what happened.

Now this is going to be interesting.

Yes, I need to know what happened to the Talents!! And what ARE the Talents? There are definitely questions unanswered here.

Is it bad that I wish Shasta and Attica could have gotten back together, even though it probably would have been a disaster?

Oh wait, except Attica.
:(

(Side note: Brandon Sanderson STILL hasn't killed anybody.)

OH MY GOSH
YOU EVIL NARRATOR

Wait.
Wait.

Oh, good heavens, don't tell me it's really over and you're just going to sell me more stuff.

NOT A CAKE-SHATTERING DISCUSSION GUIDE I WANT CLOSURE

Let's play the Beta(/Gamma) Reader Recognition Game! I got 11 points (not counting the people where I only recognized the last name).

Poor Peter Ahlstrom.

Though I'm still happy that we got a cover illustrator who got Alcatraz. Alcatraz deserves it.

QUIT IT WITH THE EXCLAMATION POINTS BRANDON

THIS IS NO TIME FOR HUMOR.

These jokes are falling rather flat.