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  1. I loved this book overall, as I have all Stormlight books. Even though it is either the weakest or second weakest for me, it's still a 5/5. Stormlight has to be my favorite ongoing fantasy series. One thing I wish Sanderson had more of in this book was meaningful character interactions between major characters. The Adolin/Kaladin/Shallan scene was great because it was a very touching scene giving us a moment of genuine warmth, and a look at how the relationship between three of our main characters had developed (though I wish we got a bit of a deeper look into how Kaladin and Shallan regarded each other now). That moment stood out to me because I kept searching for many such afterwards but was a little disappointed in not finding them, despite there being opportunities. For instance, I was 100% expecting Kaladin and Lift to develop some sort of connection and inevitably find each other as the only two Radiants awake in the tower, working together in bringing it back. It was quite disappointing to not have something like that, and to have Kaladin alone with his thoughts for half the book. A very interesting dynamic was possible there but sadly never came to be. There were also possibilities of further interactions between Rlain/Venli, Venli/Kaladin, Szeth/Dalinar, Lift/Bridge4, Renarin/Dalinar, Wit/Renarin, etc, but sadly the book was very hesitant to just have our major characters meet and interact. Those were some of the most fun scenes from the previous books for me, with Kaladin meeting Dalinar, then Kaladin/Shallan, Shallan seeing Adolin, etc, but they were just missing here. Everything and everyone just felt a little too goal oriented, with interactions happening almost solely to further each character's purpose.
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