sleepysamreads's reviews
803 reviews

Well, it’s 3am and I have a massive headache from sobbing thanks to this book. When I hear someone say that about a book, it always intrigues me. Actually, the whole reason I read this was bc one of my nurses showed me a TikTok montage of her crying bc of The Cosmere. 

Anyway, the first half of this one was suuuuper slow. I wasn’t enjoying it very much, which was seriously disappointing me. Thankfully, it picked up right after that and the action got wild. 

I didn’t expect the end at all! I’m always happy when this happens. So far I’m really loving this universe and I can’t wait to read more!

All that being said, the biggest disappointment for me from this series so far is the lack of complex female representation. Yeah, we have Vin. She’s Awesome! But she’s practically the only female character that doesn’t feel like a plot device. Only other female characters to survive are Beldre and Allrianne, but they feel more like background characters. Very disappointed in that.

I’m still absolutely loving the characters and world building! It absolutely has me in its grips when it comes to that, though I feel like this book wasn’t quite as good as the first. Only slightly, though. I think this one just takes a while to really get going and we spend half this book just waiting. 

I also really wish we had more main female characters? Ones that don’t get murdered? I guess we’ll see if that happens. This is the only real criticism I have for the series so far.