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"Honor is dead, but I will see what I can do" - Kaladin

Shallan managed to pull Kaladin up into the cubby hole during the chasm scene. She also managed to keep up with him when they run from the chasmfiend. I'm pretty sure these secondary advantages from stormlight are shared among all the orders.

When did our opinion of Brandon's writing devolve so much as to suggest he'd write something like this? Lol.He's going to resolve this supposed 'triangle' with as little drama as possible and everyone will be embarrassed for making such a big deal about nothing.

Genius!

BS should create a seperate order for Lopen called 'The Boss'

There's no war like a shipping war. This thread is intense.@Paradox. Well said. It 's like you took all the points in my mind and arranged them in a convincing manner. Two broken souls or not, the author has the ability to make anything work. And I think it's apparent where he wants this romantic subplot to go.

One does not need to be Mr T on a smart day to know which pairing is more emotional, action packed, interesting, furthers the plot, so on and so forth BS is making it so obvious what he's aiming for that I'm thinking it's a trap

I think Syl screaming was more towards the fact that she couldn't help him as he fell towards his near certain death, since he couldn't utilize stormlight at that point.About Shallan, I think it's about him liking her personality more than her looks. He states that she reminds him of Tien in that she's fascinated by the world around her. I don't think the development was sudden at all. As you said, I really wouldn't like a love triangle. But at this point the Kaladin/Shallan pairing seems more natural than the Adolin/Shallan one.

Overall, I did enjoy his arc in the book, but there was a point that bothered me. What he did after the arena duel. The act of challenging Amaram right then seemed a bit too immature for his character. An excuse might be made that it was right after the heat of battle and he wasn't thinking clearly, but yeah. Aside from that, I'm glad he finally showed us his 'witty' (for want of a less used word) side that he hinted he got from his mother. It was a nice changeover from his deary self in the first book and parts of the second. I noticed he's also started to smile and went as far as grinning in the chasm chapters. I suppose we have Shallan to thank for both of these.

I have to be honest, although I didn't dislike her character in the first book, I skipped her chapters on my rereads. But she definitely comes into her own in this book. I mainly attribute her character growth to the loss of Jasnah early on and her story only got better from there. As others have said before, her interactions with Kaladin were some of the more enjoyable parts in the book. Their character seem to mesh well together. Too well in fact. Which makes me a bit apprehensive.

I realized Kaladin must be some kind of genius to figure all that out just by looking into her eyes.

Buy to the first one. Kaladins parents have had a third child in the time he was gone.

Oh right. I had forgotten about that.

I can definitely see BS killing Adolin off in the next few books.I don't think asking him not to expand on the love triangle will help, since it has already been heavily foreshadowed and he' s apparently plotted the whole series beforehand.