Rhythm of War

4.50/5.00“Journey before Destination, you bastard!”

These words sum up the message of this book perfectly. Rhythm of War, is surprisingly, an underrated entry in The Stromlight Archive. This book focuses on Woldbuilding in such an intricate way, that I can finally place the magic system in SA in the same pedestal as the WoT. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot, the character development and the amazing sanderlanche ending. Although, I will repeat my criticism of how the “sanderlanche” is not always needed. Some of the plotlines could have reached the end before part 5, without taking anything away from this book. The weakest part of this book is the backstory, which is very uninteresting and did not add much to the plot, and failed spectacularly to develop the character that it was trying to. But Sanderson makes up with other plotlines and worldbuilding which is as excellent as I expect SA to be.

Life before death!

"I accept that there will be those I cannot protect"!Plot -> Kaladin, yes! Navani, hell yes! Raboniel, hell fucking yaas! Taravangian yay! Adolin and Shallan, okayyyyy. Venli, duh. The flashbacks hurt this book more than anything. The plot is excellent otherwise. i enjoyed Kaladin's journey, Navani and Raboniel's plotline is nothing short of the best of fantasy worldbuilding. Worldbuilding -> Amazing! Voidlight, lifelight, Warlight, Towerlight.. what else do I need to say? Its freaking amazing 10/10 rare.Characters -> Raboniel! NAVANIIIIIII! YAAASS. I love it. Kaladin is excellent as usual. Shallan is okay, but Venli was just boring. Prose -> Same as before, my complaints about the POV jumping is not as bad as book 3. I still don't like how all plotlines were delayed until the end, but it is better than book 3. Emotional Impact -> I absolutely loved this book. It has some boring moments with Venli flashback, and Shallan's story was resolved too quickly after wasting so much time with nonsense in Shadesmar. And all the cosmere connections is so fun!