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Reactions and analysis for my first-time read of Wind and Truth. Start with the intro post here.

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Pre-reading commentary

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Index post here. (No spoilers for Winds and Truth this post, but the rest of the cosmere is fair game.) This post is for my expectations and predictions. Got to get these etched in metal before I’m tainted with anything like actual content. First, I will note that unlike the other Stormlight books, I’ve only read Rhythm once so far. I ran out of time for a true reread, and when I tried to go through the audiobook I had to quit several chapt
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Chapter 18

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: An exception to the rules Going by the Jester icons, I suspect Wit is going to say something about the contract loopholes. That interpretation is based on Adolin’s POV symbol, suggesting that anything Ghostblood related will wait another chapter to show up. Icons: Jester We know Wit is present in the meeting, and he’s consulting with offworlders, so it tracks. Epigraph: Nohadon’s encou
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Chapter 2

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Taking the Next Step Lots of things this could mean, I don’t have a good guess for which one it’s suggesting for this chapter Icon: Vedel Can I hope this means Lift will show up? Alternatively this could be about the attribute of healing, and Kal is going to start mending things more with Lirin and continue improving his mental health. Epigraph: Okay, the Wind is getting capital letters,
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Chapter 17

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: A Tough Kind of Love Gaz just described his treatment of the bridgmen as “tough love” and anything that could be used that way for the treatment Mraize showed to Shallan is either euphemism or manipulation. Not a good sign of what’s to come in this chapter. Icons: Ash Lots of lightweavers doing lightweaver things. Unseen Court is going to battle (and probably gonna get trounced and tricked
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Chapter 9

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here. Title: Tossing Spears This could be a violent encounter in all likelihood, or less likely a training scenario with the squires, but I choose to think that Kal and Szeth will make a game out of throwing things back and forth while they fly to Shinovar.   Icons: Taln Hopefully Kal will get to talk to Taln and Ash before he leaves… but it could also be the endurance or resourcefulness that Tal
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Chapter 1

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Unfamiliar Ground Possibly speaking about the new truce between Kaladin and the listeners under Leshwi and Venli? Icons: Pali Dare I hope for this to refer to Rlain’s new Truthwatcher status? Epigraph: Okay, first up we have the in-world book being titled Knights of Wind and Truth, but the Stormlight book is just the second half of that? I’m not complaining, but wasn’t the point to keep
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Chapter 30

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: Not Alone This took me a minute to figure out because I was trying to figure out what the POV symbol was for. Who is a human-singer teamup? Renarin and Rlain, that’s who. Which means we might finally learn something about Renarin and his powers, or at least lay the foundation for his sub-order of enlightened Truthwatchers and how he and Rlain will get along. The stained glass crystal backgro
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Chapter 28

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Obstacle Not sure if Shallan is the obstacle here or if she’s facing one. Glad to see it is in fact a Shallan chapter, though. I rather expected a POV switch again. Icon: Chach Destruction from the fight, is my first guess, but maybe it’s for obedience. Or possibly Mraize or Iyatil’s spren makes them an alternate version of a Releaser/Dustbringer. Still guessing they’re Elsecallers, but we hav
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The Cover

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    I discovered when reviewing my previous blog that the links I created at the time to the artwork hosted on Brandon’s site are now broken. Dragonsteel continues to host the artwork from the books, but I don’t have confidence in those addresses remaining static, so I’ll refrain from linking the official art and simply trust that you have a hard copy to reference or can find it online. Cover Art Anot
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Shallan's Sketchbook - Part I

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Looks like we’re getting Kaladin and Shallan to start with. Not gonna lie, I’m more excited for seeing Navani in Kaladin’s sections than for the man himself. On the other hand, I am stoked to find out what’s going on with Shallan’s mental balance and with Maya. Shallan’s Sketchbook Part I And we get art right away! This feels less detailed than usual. A more hurried sketch? Or an effect of her merg
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Endpages and Frontmatter

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Endpages Wait a minute. Wait just a minute! What the what? This is the Nightwatcher standing by Cultivation. This is not a herald, this is one of the gods. Presumably then we have another one on the front. Surely not Odium, that does not match his description. Is this honor? Is this Tanavast? Checking the illustration list, yes to both. Honor and Cultivation are accompanied here by Talenel and Battah.
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Chapter 29

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  A Lift chapter! Huzzah! I saw the feast POV symbol and got confused for a moment. I’d almost forgotten which symbol was hers. Title: Secret Handshakes Lift is gonna make up some secret handshakes. I can’t wait to see how impractical they are. Icon: Vev Edgedancer in the house. Epigraph: Don’t apply judgements or aphorisms to situations they don’t fit. Fair. I’d criticize Shallan for ho
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Chapter 27

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: What is Right I dunno, but Szeth’s whole rigidity of belief suggests that he’s not going to take well to whatever lesson of nuance his father tries to teach him here. Icon: Ishar Honorblades make an appearance? Apparently Szeth’s mom Zeenid teaches painting in town. That’s got to be rather prestigious given the Shin respect fo
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Navani's Notebook - Part I

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Navani's Notebook - Part I A page from Navani’s Notebook! Finally! I love deciphering these pages and looking at the beautiful sprengineering sketches. The contents of this page are pretty obvious from the chapter we’ve just read, so before going through the text I’ll just appreciate the art for a moment. The oven looks elegant, especially with its little exhaust attractor at the top. Such a neat ae
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Shallan's Sketchbook - Part III

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.   Shallan’s Sketchbook Part III: Urithiru Ooo, surprise illustration. I didn’t think we’d get another one until after the interludes. Looks like Urithitru from the Shadesmar side. The crystalline, translucent construction of light, almost like a ray tracing, is a sweet look. I don’t remember what it looked like before the tower came to life. Did we get a shadesmar description? We must have, at least fro
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Shallan's Sketchbook - Part IV

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Sketchbook page! Shallan’s own shardplate! Love the satchel at her side for the book and reeds, and whatever else she plans to keep in there. (Not sandwiches, probably, since she’s not Lift.) I do like how ornate it is, especially with that one armpit section that looks like a leaf. It is distinctly feminine in proportions without being overly feminized.  The plan to add a cape for Adolin’s benefit is
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Shallan's Sketchbook - Part II

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Shallan’s sketchbook part II Musicspren! Not a whole lot to analyze in this page, but I do have a few thoughts. These musicspren are much more grassile and thin than I gathered from the descriptions. Gallant having a ghostly afterimage made me think the spren were a similar shape to the Ryahadium, but their proportions are quite distinct.  This drawing also shows less overlap than I imagined. I
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Chapter 38

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Those Who Subtract Szeth meets the raiders and their consequences, and likely has low self esteem. Icons: Ishar and Shash With the raider attack, this has got to be the blood and sinew essences. Not a good sign. Yeah, finding the heathen stonewalkers sitting on a stone and by the rock that your family semi-blasphemously moved is not going to make you immediately discount the idea of retribut
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Chapter 36

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  NOTE: Okay I think it's pretty telling that I stopped for months after I got to a Szeth flashback chapter, and then didn't find the motivation to pick it up again. Which is sad because  prior to picking up this book I was really looking forward to getting his backstory and learning about the Shin society in particular. Unfortunately I'm really not feeling it. Hopefully I'll get over that.  Also despite
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Chapter 40

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Stuko Stem Um, why are we using those chess terms again when this is a Szeth chapter? Is there some analogy to the tactics being used in Azimir? Does Szeth play Towers?  Icons: Tanat, Vav I’m really not sure. Maybe their inverses of not-dependable and not-healing will match the decline and moral abdication of the stone shamans? Very wild guess here. Epigraph: Sleepless say that the Herald
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