The Lost Metal

It's hard to make a plot feel organic, especially in a wider story as grand as what Sanderson is building, but usually he nails it. In this instance there were a few moments where it was too blatantly done for plot purposes, The entire rocket premise felt a little "lets keep things moving" but the worst example was the Bands of Mourning subplot, absurd chain of events that was only for the purpose of getting them to where they needed to be as quickly as possible not as a natural progression of the situation and the characters involved.

Sanderson is ultra talented so if he allowed a bit more space he could've managed it, but there are limits when you want to keep things as short and snappy as he does in this book. An understandable tradeoff even if I preferred the plot felt less forced.

Still a fun read with some really great character beats but left me with a niggling concern that tying in the wider Cosmere will detract from the quality of the individual stories going forward (AKA the MCU curse).