![]() It’s not anything like those that come before it. Frustratingly contained, with new information that got caught in corners but with no resolutions (yet), emotions smothered: a picture-perfect model of a book, rather than the frenetic energy that I’d expected. Rhythm of War, for instance, felt like a glass cube or terrarium with structures inside, all lined up and regular and unable to flow organically because there were walls on all the sides to keep them held in. ![]() And I mean, literally see them that way, as in, when I picture a story, it has physical form that has nothing to do with the traditional book shape, or even the traditional story arc. ![]() I know that this is a bit of a weird thing and probably has to do with my synesthesia, but I tend to see stories as having shape. The reason that I don’t normally swallow 1200-paged books in two days is because then I’m too close to truly see them. I knew that I needed another, slower, audio reread to fully immerse myself into the world and begin to make connections. I knew this had a lot to do with how I read the book – the first 19 chapters over several months of pre-release, followed by a frantic two-day read of the remaining 900+ pages – and the fact that my favorite character (Shallan) was missing from a giant chunk of the book. My first impressions were of a book that was generally well-written, and which had lot of interesting new developments, but just felt off for me. Absolute shocker, yeah? On a book I expected to be my favorite of the year, and the one I’d literally been looking forward to for three years? But yeah. Let me start by saying this: On first read, I didn’t necessarily like the book. For another, it wouldn’t make any sense to people who haven’t read earlier books, and would spoil earlier books besides. I’m not going to write up a summary of this.
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