Oathbringer

found it a real real slog to get through most of this, and honestly should've probably rated it 2 stars, but storms - sanderson got me with that finale.

not a fan of how characters are treated in this book though. they're pulled from scene to scene and place to place with no real rhyme or reason or personal urgency. people are killed off without satisfying arcs or any redemption, while others never seem to face consequences for choices made in previous books.

still find the shallan personality split stuff infuriating too, and i don't understand why so much time is spent on the shallan/adolin/kaladin drama when there's not even much there to devote time to.

dalinar's backstory was eye-opening and i love how it changes how we view him as a person, but i kinda wish at least some of it was left to the imagination. we've been told time and time again about the deal he's made and the things he's lost - do we really need to see the whole scene play out at this point?

in the end though, i did enjoy the journey. seeing the radiants on the field together was worth the wait, and i'm really engaged with the questions being asked about morality and right and wrong. i hope we get more of that going forward and maybe even switch back to focusing on a core few characters rather than this ever-expanding cast we don't care that much about.