I am currently overwhelmed.

However although it is a fantastic book, I had issues.
I. hate. multiple. Pov' s.
And the same thing happened as always, it threw me out of the reading experience. I had to go so far as to get the audiobook, switch between chapters and structure my life according to reading and listening chapters.

I would lay down my life for Kaladin. I WANTED to know it all. But no, I just get another character shoved down my throat in between to make it more "exciting"
It was not. It was painful and annoying.

But since I know this is my own thing, I probably can't blame it on the book..

I also could not help to compare it to TNOTW. And that did also not go well. I loved the name of the wind more. The Way Of Kings felt like this supremassive, effective technical superb work of fiction. It was planned to a T, exercised with skill, but it lacked passion. The name of the wind has so many failures, I know them all, but omg I love it so much. All of it, every minute. I opened the book, and I did nothing but read. I was so immersed i did not recognize anything around me. The Way Of Kings though? At 50% I was still wondering why I am reading the book, while I was looking for the magic and the fantastic and the beauty. And while I was thrown out of the book again and again as I had to change characters.


The ending was good though. And I love Kaladin. I will probably hate the beginning of the second book again, but I will still read it. It's still a good series.