Pippy Omega

SPOILER FREE REVIEW: It is a great book that wraps up the first arc of the Stormlight Archive well enough to please some people (like me), but not enough for other people. It answers lots of questions, but makes new ones and leaves some still mysterious. SPOILER REVIEW: I want to like this book a lot, but I can’t. I feel like Sanderson’s quality and signature style was thrown out the roof for this one. You know that feeling at the end of a SA book and you burn through the least 200 pages in 5 minutes? That was what it felt like throughout the whole book. That made the climax, in my opinion, a lot less impactful. Like, at Dalinar’s death, I literally had no reaction. However, there are some excuses that I can give Sanderson not giving WaT 3 stars: The WAY over-hyping of the book The overall structure being predictable (Day by day format, Odium being in every interlude) and therefore slightly underwhelming The pacing being, like I said earlier, all over the place like a sanderlache is, except for the entirety of the book. What I mean by this is switching between multiple POVs in one chapter very rapidly While I did enjoy the day by day format, it does make everything very predictable. Of course, this might be a personal thing, but when reading a Sanderson book, I always love the feeling of avoiding reading the part names at the start of the book, and slowly progressing through the interludes. The lack of parts, along with the over-hyping of the book, made it so that even if brandon wrote some scenes that were as good as WoR 3rd Ideal (which he probably did, but these circumstances make it very hard to fully appreciate it), I would feel meh. Now, I still had some great moments in WaT, such as Adolin’s duel with Abdidi and Kaladin being the only one to stand against the darkness, but I am disappointed by how underwhelming and quickly some heavly built-up moments went by (Contest of Champions, release of Ba-Ad0-Mishram).