Covacola

Ok so THIS. I will say Teft has been one of my favorite cosmere characters since I met him so that does color my view but also Teft's entire character, as Harbour said, felt so reduced to a plot device in RoW. Second unpopular opinion it seems from this thread but I actually really liked Navani bonding the Sibling? "Life before death, you bastard!" was one of the highlights of this book second only to "We chose!" Which I guess might be another unpopular opinion as I really enjoyed the time spent in Lasting Integrity. Idk the worldbuilding alone was interesting to me and while this wasn't my favorite Shallan book I did enjoy it. But going back to Teft, Navani, and all of that... Teft's death just felt, in my opinion... Unnecessary? Like? I saw it coming with how much he felt like just a part of Kaladin's development. Where before, he did seem primarily there to push Kal forward he at least still was going through his own arc... I get that it's been a year and everything but every time we got time with Teft it felt so forced. Like "yay! my character arc is over I'm all better now :)" And specifically how he died made have to physically put the book down for a few weeks. I understand the need to establish consequences and the real dangers and whatnot, but I personally felt like we already got that through Raboniel and her daughter. I felt like we already grasped how devastating this weapon will be, so using it on Teft just seemed unnecessary other than to get rid of a character we were supposed to be done with... Honestly I think I would have preferred pushed to the background treatment...

My favorite character is Teft! There's a small part of me that almost wants to push Hoid off a cliff just to see how he'd get out of that situation, I think it'd be interesting. I've read Elantris + the Sel Novellas, Mistborn eras 1&2 + Allomancer Jak & Secret History, Stormlight 1-4 + Edgedancer, Shadows for Silence, and Sixth of the Dusk! Oh I also read the White Sand portion included in Arcanum Unbounded, but I haven't read any of the actual graphic novels. Other than that, I think I'm just missing Dawnshard?

I also wanted to add um... Is there spam in the introductions? What's going on lol

I have lurked around here for awhile just to get answers but I thought it was finally time I just made an account haha. Call me Cova! I've read pretty much all of the cosmere books, including the novellas, except dawnshard and white sand as I mainly consume cosmere through audiobooks. Hello all again and I hope you all have wonderful days!