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Thanks, most appreciated. After talking with a good friend of mine, I thought of the main reason why I feel so conflicted on this book, more so then anything else I posted. I feel there is a lack of commitment in this book in some ways. Alright so Dalinar is dead...........expect sorta...........not really. Since an evil "shadow" of him was created to serve Todium, while his real soul was "claimed" by someone/thing else. Like how do I even process that? Is he dead or not? I feel this allows Sanderson to have his cake and eat it too. If he wants to keep Dalinar dead and simply have the heroes fight some evil clone of him later down the line, he can do that. However if he wants to bring him back to life down the line, he's free to do that as well. So this resulted in me, unable to feel any emotion from his "death", at the end of the story. Another example to me is Kharbranth. Kharbranth is destroyed, what an amazing chapter, Taravangian is a monster..................800 pages later.................nope, everyone's just fine. I'm sure it will be used by Sanderson down the line to bite Taravangian in the ass, but it still ruins for me, one of the best chapters in the book, IMO

My first post here. So my perspective on Winds of Truth might be a little different from many people here. I first started reading this series last June and fell in love with the Way of Kings; possibly one of my favorite books in a long while. Since then I spent the past fall and winter season reading the other 4 novels and 2 novellas in order. So Wind of Truth coming out while I was about 100 pages into Rhythm of War was a happy coincidence for me. I know most of you all have probably waited years to read book 5, but for me I quite literally started it two days after finishing book 4. So after binge reading this entire series, for the past 8 months or so, I have to say Wind of Truth might be my least favorite of the 5. It's a good book, to be sure, but the other 4 books just each had these "special" moments to them, that nearly brought me to tears; Kaladin being forgiven by his brother, Dalinar taking responsibility for his past and not giving up his pain, and so on. We got some great lore and answers to a lot of mysteries. Some great set up for the future to come, but I felt a lot of human moments, to be the weakest part of this series. The best ones I can think of is Taln defending the innocent again, even with no weapons and hardly even sane and Kalak meeting Kaladin in the final chapter and being forgiven by Taln. The contest of champions was really disappointing for me. Are we suppose to believe that if Todium brought any random dude to that fight, that Dalinar wouldn't have killed him/her on the spot, in order to save the world? Also Dalinar's plan has basically sent his own world back to the stone age, with only the parts of the world that worship an evil god, having a power source. Not sure if that sits well with me. I guess the heroes had a lot of wins at the end of the other 4 books, so they needed to be taken down a peg, but dam, I didn't think Sanderon would take them down this much.