Alethkar doesn't have any rights to fight for. He's right about how many civilians have been killed and soldiers pointlessly butchered for the glory of some uncaring highprince or other, with no change at all for people living their lives beyond the damage done. It's particularly telling, of course, that he's Alethi. Lirin is wrong, we know this, but for the most part he's hard to argue against and the reasons why are well worth thinking about. So something that I find really interesting in this novel is Kaladin's fight(s) with Lirin. Wow, there's so much to talk about there. It was an unexpected but very interesting theme. Singers, even Fused, betraying Odium, while elsewhere humans side with him, as do some Spren, but then there's an Unmade working against him. (By the way, I wonder how long it'll take for them to combine those flying fabrials with Windrunners, using their gravitic lashings to power them?)įinally, it's interesting how the (well, a) theme of this book was the war breaking down, in the sense that there's all sorts of breaks in the traditional lines in the conflict. Because damn, that was some fine science she did! Even if, you know, she's unleashed all kinds of new and fascinating ways for the war to get worse. I'd say Navani's contention that she's not a true scholar has to be taken with a grain of salt after this book. Is the next book going to be ten days long? (Given how they've been growing, maybe it's also the length of the audiobook? ) Certainly I expect it to be faster-paced than this one, though there was a lot going on even here.

The motivations don't align, but I'm sure the Shard can find a way to fit that square peg into the apocalypse-shaped hole. And we got a self-absorbed twit as the new god of hate. While there's a learning curve to Shard powers, the new ones tend to accomplish more due to having a fresh perspective and being less, well, elemental.

Is it just because her connection to humanity allowed her to unlock those memories? Though I'm not sure I understand how that happened, since she was looking for it but no one was willing or able to grant it, but then she developed it on her own. I loved Kaladin becoming the first psychotherapist on Roshar, even if it had to be cut short and then being assigned the most epic - and dangerous - mental case patient ever, because no biggie.Īn unbound Bondsmith can steal nahel bonds. I finally finished the audiobook during my lengthy Christmas vacationand am back at a computer.

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