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I thought the ending was rushed a bit, but really, who would have liked an action-packed, superhero, adventure story that had 100 pages of wrap-up at the end? No one. (I guess I didn't dislike it as much as most of the people here. Ha ha.) I do have about a zillion questions. And there were things that I thought were going to be wrapped up a bit differently. Tia was the main one. She sees Tavi and says, "That girl looks familiar. Is that…" My immediate reaction is that she knows exactly who this girl is. Tavi obviously is familiar with what her father looks like. But Megan specifically said she couldn't find *any* reality in which Prof was not corrupted. So what the heck happened to Tavi's father? People aren't going crazy in Tavi's dimension. Did he die? Honestly, my first thought was that Tia was able to somehow access the other dimension, and that's how she knew about this. Coupled with the fact that we don't actually see her body after she dies (and no one is dead until you see the body in superhero stories, and maybe not even then) I had expected her to still be alive. Or maybe I'm just in denial. I think what I was really missing in this ending was screen time with non-crazy Prof. The other characters (and myself) obviously missed him and wanted him back. They struggle for the whole book, and then he's there for about two sentences after regaining his sanity. It just wasn't enough. Questions I would have liked to have seen wrapped up, but it probably would have drawn the ending out too much to include: -What happens with the famine Prof caused? Does that get fixed somehow? -What was Abraham's past that he didn't want to talk about? -What in the world was Calamity, exactly? Why was he there to watch and learn? -So, do they stop Obliteration? (I honestly loved that he had already beat the darkness and was just an awful person. He never really did seem out of control when they were talking to him before.) This is probably not an interesting enough story to be told, to be honest. Just your standard good guy beats bad guy stuff. I did want to see him taken down after all he did in book two. -Why is Mizzy suddenly an epic, and what are her powers?

Ha. That makes sense. Because no one really knows Aradel's age, when he was first introduced I assumed he was a kandra or something. Now that I've finished it, I'm not so sure, but I'm probably was seeing "clues" where there aren't any. Edit: The not mentioning the age thing, if it does turn out to be insignificant, was a delightful red herring.

At one point in Shadows of Self, Aradel pulls out a note stuffed into his cigar case that reads "There's a banana in your drawer." His only comment is that the "woman will be the death of me." No one else comments on it. It isn't mentioned again. I feel like this is a clue somehow, but I can't figure out what it means. Anyone got any ideas?

Anyone else reread the Way of Kings epigraphs after finishing Words of Radiance? I did! And look what I found: “All is withdrawn for me. I stand against the one who saved my life. I protect the one who killed my promises. I raise my hand. The storm responds.” I think this is fairly obviously referring to Kaladin defending Elhokar, and it got me wondering if any of the other epigraphs have been explained in the second book. Anyone else pick up on something?