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End Part 4: The tragedy continues for Dalinar. Fighting his past trauma is hard to read. Sanderson really pulled back the curtain on Dalinar in a way that makes you question him just like he questions himself.

The shadesmar adventure with the gang was interesting too. Spending some time there connects to more Cosmere books in a cool way.

The “voidbringers” plot twist surprised me. Taravangian is a monster.

End Part 3: RIP Elhokar. That part made me pretty sad. Moash destroyed me. Dalinar’s past is sad too. This whole part being a tragic subplot has been surprising. Although with it only being part 3 of the book, I guess it should have been expected. High Marshall Azure is very interesting to me. And the Queens references to Gavilar’s mysterious mission also interested me. I hope the gang can survive shadesmar.

End Part 2: lots of exposition and early development of story arcs. I guess Book 2 wrapped up most of the exciting plot points from Book 1 and now he needs to start over.

Shallan and Jasna were frustrating. It’s like all of Shallan’s development from Book 2 is getting erased. Although I can relate. Moash makes me sad. His chapters were interesting. The explanation of the heralds was satisfying though! Nice!

End Part 1: the sub plot with Shallan finding the lady in black monster felt like the opening arc of a video game. Haha! I enjoyed the mystery though. Kaladin visiting his family and traveling with the parshmen was a good little story as well. I was surprised to see “Wind Runner” parshmen though. This is going to get complicated. And Adolin’s secret is eating me up. I hope things turn out okay for them. Yikes!