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Under spoiler tags to not tease too much.

 

There's a few things that it could be in regards to.  One or two that stand out to me, but I honestly don't remember all of the details of the book.  It's been a couple of months since I've read it.

 

Judging by this tease, I think Ookla is Odium.

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I, for one, don't feel any jealousy at all :) What I feel is envy, and a modicum of odium ( we should use this word more often). Very strong envy, though. Odium mainly refers to the teasing: seriously, keep you beta status a secret, or make with the spoilers! Lots and lots of spoilers :) And to slow publishers, sitting on the ready book for months ( I know their reasons for it, to be fair, it just doesn't affect my emotions)

And Natans: better try hacking Dropbox servers :) WoR *and* Dragonsteel (drools)

 

That are something that would be nice =) 

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Any idea what the "NO. I WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS" is referring to? Five bucks say Dalinar dies.

 

:( Probably :(

 

 

My one-word summary on the final page?

BRILLIANT.

 

So, don't rest until the fat lady sings. The final page has it all. Dalinar is revived...

 

 

 their lines, while still distinctly their own, overlap a lot more. Some others do the same kind of thing, but I won't say which.

 

.. as a Parshendi! And now he spends time with Eshonai...

 

Also:

 

 

 Re: Shallan, I can only beg you (for your own enjoyment) to try very hard to keep your mind open to all the things that are going on in her flashbacks, including the things that are not directly stated.

 

Shallan turns to the Dark Side of the Force.

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Her "final page" comment means the final page of the beta document, where I asked people to give their overall thoughts on the book. She doesn't mean the final page of the book itself is brilliant. (Though I'm not saying it's not; RAFO.)

 

I think it's best for beta readers not to say anything, for now. Or if you do want to say something, clear it with me first. It's not going to be like the Wheel of Time where there are draconian restrictions, but we should be careful to consider the amount of time left before the release and how jealous people will get.

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Jealous ?!?!? Here on the 17th shard I think we are behond that.

 

The correct sentiment would be murderous intent fuelled with Odium for the deepth of the heart at the person that already have the book (with sugar on top) =)

 

Serious just more 3 and half months we are getting close =)

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Her "final page" comment means the final page of the beta document, where I asked people to give their overall thoughts on the book. She doesn't mean the final page of the book itself is brilliant. (Though I'm not saying it's not; RAFO.)

 

 

Oh no, Peter.... you just destroyed my hope for Dalinar to be revived as a Parshendi... :(

 

 

:)

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Nobody turn a beta reader, they already born this way, we only don't know that until them receive a ARC book =)

I think I'm a beta reader. What are the chances they'll send me a copy just to test out this theory. I mean, I may have it within me to be the most powerful beta reader in history!

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I think I'm a beta reader. What are the chances they'll send me a copy just to test out this theory. I mean, I may have it within me to be the most powerful beta reader in history!

 

*make a wise master voice*

 

 Look for the aswer in you heart, if you are worth the true will appear before your eyes ;)

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  • 3 weeks later...

Let me give you my spoilery review of Words of Radiance. :P

Dalinar is....... "AWESOME" and kicks Sadeas's butt. Kaladin is ......."AWESOME" and kicks Amaram and Sadeas's butt and fights Szeth. Shallan is...... "AWESOME" and has sad and exciting flashback scenes about her homicidal, power hungry father and...... seduces Renarin (here's to u Feather Writer). Jasnah is...... "AWESOME" and literally reduces guys to smoke and seduces Kaladin (Yay! My theory stands true.) Renarin is ......"AWESOME" and becomes a kick butt Surgebinder........ and kicks Voidbringer butt. Szeth multitasks and kills people while crying and listening to non existent screams...... and gets his butt kicked by Kaladin. Eshonai is....... "AWESOME" and kicks stuffy Alethi butt........ and begins courting the DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE. (But no there's no "Kaladin, I am your mother" scene yet. That comes in book 9.)

 

Oh and by the way, Lift is AWESOMEST of all. :D

I'm not sure if I missed it, but are you a Beta reader and this is a real spoiler or just a 'mock review' of what you wish happened?

because I would totally love to see any of these things come true... :P

but if it's made up.... :angry:  :ph34r:  <_<

lol

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Yea, the description of the Brandon avalanche is pretty accurate. Interestingly, one of the books the avalanche has impressed me the most in was The Rithmatist - it was a climax, and then a climax, and then things settled down, things were explained, cliffhangers were... hanged, and then another-climax-to-the-face!

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Crazy speculations. I think Elhokar will be the only Kholin to die and Alethkar will break apart. Most of the high princes and many civilians will die when the Parshmen rise up. This will be the Disaster Navani speaks of in her journal. Dalinar and Navani will spend book 3 trying to restore the country as well as the KR.

 

And Wit will kill Sadeas with Nightblood when Sadeas pulls Oathbringer on him in the epilogue. 

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Well dang, as if it wasn't bad enough waiting for the WoR release already. The second I saw this thread I knew it would only make it worse, so of course I do the only "rational" thing I could do, I read it. 

 

Now it's 10 times worse (sigh) no one to blame but myself.

 

I really hope that "NO, I WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS" comment doesn't refer to Jasnah dieing as some have speculated, I really like her character and want to see her developed more.

 

38 days to go. 

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Let me give you my spoilery review of Words of Radiance. :P

Dalinar is....... "AWESOME" and kicks Sadeas's butt. Kaladin is ......."AWESOME" and kicks Amaram and Sadeas's butt and fights Szeth. Shallan is...... "AWESOME" and has sad and exciting flashback scenes about her homicidal, power hungry father and...... seduces Renarin (here's to u Feather Writer). Jasnah is...... "AWESOME" and literally reduces guys to smoke and seduces Kaladin (Yay! My theory stands true.) Renarin is ......"AWESOME" and becomes a kick butt Surgebinder........ and kicks Voidbringer butt. Szeth multitasks and kills people while crying and listening to non existent screams...... and gets his butt kicked by Kaladin. Eshonai is....... "AWESOME" and kicks stuffy Alethi butt........ and begins courting the DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE. (But no there's no "Kaladin, I am your mother" scene yet. That comes in book 9.)

 

Oh and by the way, Lift is AWESOMEST of all. :D

 

I think we all know that Lift beats Odium when she becomes the Shard of Awesomeness  :P​  

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