Ok, now that I've had some time to organize my thoughts: I first want to say that I'm thankful I didn't listen to so many people who said this was a difficult/obnoxious read because I didn't feel that way at all. I was enthralled from the start.

This is certainly not a character-driven book. Although there are a lot of characters I loved, it's more plot-driven and everything is woven together in a deliciously dark and epic way. Maybe this is where the difficulty for other readers came in, I'm not judging, but for me I just went into it not expecting a ton of character-centric pages.

This story is intriguing, complex, and SO GOOD. I'm not even sure Erikson knew for certain where this story was going to end up but I loved all the places it went. The world-building is exquisite and honestly there's so many threads that all I can say to what's going on is: read it because if I get caught up talking about it in this review I'll inevitably give a lot of spoilers and with how many twists and turns this story takes, it's worth it to leave it up to the reader to experience it.

I liked several aspects, especially the idea of luck and chance being a major theme as well as the idea that the soul can live apart from the body and inhabit other forms. It allowed for character transformations instead of a lot of character deaths.

Overall I'm very excited to read more from this series. I read this in tandem with the audiobook, narrated by Ralph Lister, who is one of my preferred narrators. So this was a joy to read AND listen to.