Debora Souza

I don't think I can give a description for this book...
So much action and planning and politics, so much mistery, and a pretty satisfying ending.
I like how it closed everything nicely.
The characters are great and so is the world.

I really liked this book.
I liked the worldbuilding behind the story, the little hints that there is more to this world than the story is telling, and that maybe if the author is kind enough, some day he'll tell you. I love ancient mysterious things in books, so I'm dying to know more of the people who used elderglass. It sounds a bit Lovecraftian to me.

I like that the main character is not your typical hero, and I love his relationship with his friends and mentor. Locke turned out to be quite an original character, and I very much think the world might explode if he and Harry Dresden got together, such are their skills at diplomacy and keeping their mouths shut when they should.

Somewhere around the middle of the story I felt that the the “Salvara game” plot was too much left aside in favor of the Grey King one, and I almost feared it wouldn't quite come back again. It did, and it was worth it, but I still felt that segment was a bit slower.

I love how it ended in a way that leaves space for sequels, but manages to finish the whole story at the same time.
Will probably read the sequels in the near future

Short, fast, thrilling, exciting...
I's great to see such beloved characters under such a new, refreshing light, to know how they started, how they met. It only made me want even more to reread the whole series to look at Lan, Moiraine and Siuan with new eyes.

Oh, I loved it.
I was immediately transported to an Asian setting by the names, even reading in Kindle and not having the cover to look at all the time, and I'm pretty sure I got the pronunciations right from my Mandarin classes.

I loved how simple and yet full of detail and emotion the story was. It all happens in the course of a hundred days, in only one or two settings, with as few as half a dozen characters, and yet it feels complete.
I like how by now I can pick up on the similarities and differences between world settings and characters by Sanderson, how Shai strongly reminds me of both Vin and Shallan, as she's constantly impersonating a character, how many of his characters revolve around lying, faking, pretending, to make them stronger, but later find that they really have it all in them somewhere, somehow.
The magic system was another very pleasing element. It does remind me of the one of Stormlight Archive, but manages to be different enough. All being from the same universe, I'm guessing the similarities may come in handy and be explained as all being part of how the universe works.

I very much liked Shai and how she set about to both perform her task, plan her escape, make her life more comfortable and study and manipulate the people around her. It was delightful to learn her story and see her passion for the Emperor grow as she worked. The ending was also very satisfying.
I wonder if Hoid figures here...

Brandon's end note made me smile when he described the history and culture of stamps in Asia, as not a month ago my Mandarin teacher taught us the exact same thing. How the artist would place his stamp, then the buyer would place his, and then his child, and their children, and how you can trace back the origin, lineage and heritage of a piece by those stamps.

No words to describe it. I still want to cry over the end of such an epic series. Five stars it is