Mraize and Ialai sittin' in a tree! P-L-O-T-T-I-N-G! First comes spying, then comes blackmail, then comes Ialai pushing a revenge filled political agenda!
I know it doesn't fit with all the extra syllables and it doesn't rhyme. Sue me.
I'd put Dalinar's present day chapters ahead of Shallan's but that's just because I love all the juicy cosmere/worldbuilding tidbits we've been getting. But yeah I do like the the relationship building we've been getting with Shallan and Adolin. No mating!
To be fair, there's a reason this was never published and Brandon has said that it needs major work before being released officially even aside from the shattered plains stuff being used elsewhere. He wrote it when he was young and inexperienced.