Thoughts on Wind and Truth. SPOILERS

[Ironwill2112 he/him]

So I really enjoyed WaT. But apparently nobody else did. I get that some of the dialogue isn't as good as it was in the previous books but it wasn't THAT bad was it? To be fair though I am not well read, and don't have a lot to compare it to. Most of what I have read is Brandon Sanderson. 

So did y'all like Wind and Truth?

[Aeoryi she/her]

unfortunately, Wind and Truth really didn't feel like another Way of Kings, another Words of Radiance, another Oathbringer, or another Rhythm of war. Yes it was good, but it wasn't outstanding compared to any of the four books before it. And I totally get it- there were very high expectations going into reading it. 

There were some parts of wind and Truth that I really really liked, including

Spoiler

the ending where El guts a fused and Venli outsmarts Odium

kaladin becoming an herald

Szeth getting an ending that gave him peace, not godhood 

All of the shinovar stuff & flashback scenes

Seeing the oathpact and the arrival on roshar

Mraize versus shallan

I could go on. But there were a lot of things that didn't feel great. For example the usage of the word "therapist" or the kinda confusing ending to the much anticipated contest of champions that left much feeling empty. (I also had to reread it multiple times to understand what happened)

There also sometimes felt like there was just... too much going on at once. At lot of the stuff with the dawnshards felt somewhat out of place in the book and having five different characters in the spiritual realm kinda just made it a "why have multiple" kind of deal. 

Either way the book was actually quite good overall. The quality is definitely there. Just it's missing that little bit of extra... bonus good feeling that really has become signature to the stormlight archive