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"Nah, I'm good."

"Yeah. Don't worry, I'm sure I'll find her in time."

"No, really. I'll be fine." Nameless hesitated. "If I can ever find Moni, that is."

"Sure, fine." Lark waved a hand, and his office moved, a copy of it appearing in its place.

"Forget I said anything. It's not that bad."

511 h. Always remember that authors need to include at least 1 plot twist per book, so expect one of these rules (that you've memorized, right?) to be wrong at least once a month, probably closer to once a week.

511 e. If you don't have a perfect memory, maybe listen to the guy who does.

Lark glared at Bookwyrm. "That's stupid. We don't have to cure your love of Brandon Sanderson books, but do you really want to encourage compulsive reading and excessive attachment to fictional characters?"

To get this out of the way, I liked the book. There were some pacing issues, but on the whole it makes this book feel kinda like a part 2 to Alcatraz 5, which is fine. The ending was great, all in all just a good book. Not the best in the series, but a good book, and a solid ending. he broke Folsom's talent temporarily, without really concentrating that hard, having way too much power from having his talent turned off, or having his talent completely on his side. I get the feeling that when he 'broke' the talents in book 4, that was more due to the breaking talent getting tired of being hated and abandoning him, leading to all the other talents, which stem from the breaking talent, leaving as well. Biblioden was channeling the power of the Arcana through all the Free Kingdomers, only without giving them talents to siphon it off. This led to Bastille having similar issues to what the Smedry family had when their talents were turned off, overcharging any glass she touched. Well, Alcatraz had access to the Worldspire, and the Breaking talent is the strongest of all the talents. Plus it had been foreshadowed since book three and we'd seen the breaking talent do similar things when not powered up (breaking the language of the Arcana, breaking every librarian weapon in the entire Free Kingdoms). Didn't really feel like too much of a stretch to me. We've seen lenses have a variety of uses before. Shapers lenses stated ability was to let the user see the deepest desire of whoever it was used on, yet when Alcatraz used it on his mother it showed him how she viewed herself, and there's always Bestowers lenses.

511 c. Make sure to inscribe these rules on metal.

Lark looked surprised. "You'd be willing to let me treat patients?"

"You were too soft."

511. Memorize all the rules on this list, so that you can follow them all perfectly. 512. If any rules on this list are repeated, that means they're doubly important. Ignore them at your own peril.

"No, I would have continued regulating their access to books, and slowly closed down on it to encourage more normal reading habits. Closing the library at midnight, for a start."

"Depends on the infraction, and I never managed to enforce it properly."

"And they still got to read them with my system. The library was open at all hours."

"Psh. You used to confiscate them, and you still got plenty of patients."

"It wouldn't have been a problem if you hadn't allowed them books in the first place."

"If Ranyru hadn't burned the library down, you mean. If that hadn't happened, I would have been fine."

Lark sighed. "I did not remove it, I merely controlled it."

"I did more good in my short time in charge than you did in your centuries. Maybe they can't be cured easily, but feeding the disease is not the solution."

"You never tried to treat them! Not properly at least."

"Because you do no good. You do not even see the disease you claim to treat as a problem."

"Of course I could have. That dagger was made to kill beings like him. And I can't sign the treaty over to Calano because it's already his. I just fooled the treaty into thinking I'm him."