A little bit thrown off guard by the last few pages, still reeling from the conclusion and am not sure how to proceed writing this review.

I’ll start by saying this book is definitely way more slow going and padded with “fillers” than the first book. But I felt like the characters no longer feel as thin and I can understand them a lot more now. I mean, Sanderson’s strength lies in his world building, I feel, rather than his prose or his characters. Prose is decent but not insanely beautiful or anything, and his characters seems driven by the story rather than the other way around. Which is completely fine cause this is an adventure-y type book.

I felt a bit less invested in this until much later because it felt more like the characters I was rooting for was waiting for something to happen or to thwart something that was going to happen to them rather than doing something (as was in the first book).

The politics side of the whole thing was rather interesting and gave me a lot to think about in terms of whether there’s such a thing as a perfect governmental system and if we can do right by the people with choices if it means that the choices made can be wrong. I found it so insane that he would build all this up only to tear it all down later though. But throughout the book, I also felt the fragility of it and knew it probably would never last.

I don’t have a lot more to add but this book was very good and very enjoyable to read. I love the set up it gave for the third book and am looking forward to it.

Also, the first thing I need to stop doing (but I know I will never) is reading the damn fan wiki so I can quit spoiling myself. I read that there’s a book out there explaining the mist spirit at the end of the book and I’m shook.