abh

Any chance those squares are related to Renarin's abilities? He sees the future in squares, if I'm not mistaken.

"Can't he just do what he is supposed to for once!"

The first kingkiller book was all right. Took forever to get going, but it paid off. The second was downright awful. I have no idea why people liked it. There was a huge boring chunk of the book spent with those samurai rip off people (yay for originality) and then another chunk spent naked with in that faerie land which was even more boring. To quote a friend of mine, the most prominent plotline in those books is how much money Kvothe has at any given moment. He may be a smooth writer, but the it really can't make up for the lack of content and imagination. On top of that, he clearly could care less about his fans. Sanderson is actually a beautiful writer at times, maybe not as consistently though. People who drool over those books and overlook Sanderson re generally too dumb to appreciate complexity, depth, and nuance. However, a really empty story is far more adaptable to the big screen. You can easily put The Name of the Wind into one two hour movie, while a book like the way of kings would probably need three movies (!) to be done without skipping anything important. An interesting idea I heard would be to make each book into 2-3 movies, and then have a series with each episode covering one story from the interludes. Not likely to happen anytime soon, but fun to think about.

ok so dalinar killed evi

Just a theory here... I think Jasnah was using cryptics somehow to keep an eye on her brother wile she was away. They disappeared because Jasnah had her incident on the boat and probably wasn't in control