finally finished Oathbringer

Like August of last year I was maybe 250 pages from the end and I just lost all desire to finish it. I finally slogged through the rest of it just to say I did. I don't know if it's because of the long break or just that there are hundreds of characters to keep track of but it felt like every other page I was having to look at a wiki to figure out who someone was. I'm probably gonna take a long break before starting the next book.

Overall I still enjoy the series but my biggest complaint with Sando is that he purposely writes some scenes in a way that is completely incomprehensible. It's kind of hard to explain but things are happening in a scene that purposely don't make sense because he hasn't revealed the meaning behind what's happening yet. It's kind of a running theme in the series. Like in this book the huge climactic battle scene at the end (which spans like four chapters at least) I understood maybe 25% of what was happening. Every page or so it would jump between one of a dozen characters, something would happen that didn't make sense, it would jump again, and so on. And then I check a wiki or reddit or something and there are pages and pages of explanation that people have written and I'm just wondering where the frick they got all of it and did we even read the same book.

anyway we're on to cincinnati