Wind and Truth

The 5th book in the Stormlight Archive, Wind and Truth is the final conclusion to the 1st arc in the Storm Light Archive was almost perfect, but dont get me wrong still a great read all around and one of the best books I have read in a long time!

This book picks up right after the events in Rhytym of War after Dalinar has set the terms of the final conflict between himself and Odium, 10 days and each side picking a champion.

This one is unique in that the interludes are much shorter and the book is divided into 10 days following each one of our characters on their journeys to the final desolation or end of the world as we know it

I loved the twist that were unexpected that helped bring alot of tension to the story in unexpected ways and each of our characters story lines were just so much fun to follow. The power of the gods, the battle between good and evil, I find it difficult to write a review without spoilers as there is so much I want to say but spoilers would be the result lol

Througout the book for cosmere fans you will notice many references to other cosmere books and worlds, from taldain, to scadrial, to warbreaker and elantris. Every easter egg so to speak makes me say hey i know that, or i recognize that and honestly I love seeing these connections between worlds.

the ending did a great job of both wrapping up this 1st arc but also setting this up well for the 2nd arc leaving me begging for more. So much has changed for Roshar, so much left unanswered, and can't help but feel there is so much more to come and cannot wait for the start of stormlight 6 which as i understand will have a 10 yr time jump from the end of this book.

This book did not get a full 5 stars as there were some parts that maybe did not work the best within the story

the biggest things being LGBTQ issues between 2 characters while I applaud sanderson for trying, and including this aspect within the story, I did not feel it fit well in the greater context of the story or was even a natural fit, but rather kind of a side cameo so to speak in a effort to include this within the story. In a way you could feel the nervousness and insecurity of the characters involved come across in the writing of feeling a bit forced to included this

The 2nd aspect that maybe did not work as well was the therapy side of things, this was not terrible to be honest, and overall I think sanderson has done a overall decent job in representing mental health issues within this series and represented that well tbh, but when approaching this from a therapy side did not work so well imho, while not terribly bad not great eithier. but at the same time the character who is trying to provide said therapy is also trying to figure it out as well, so maybe in that sense it does work.

Kaladin and szeths side quest I think could have been removed almost entirely and been a seperate novel on its own, which would have shorten this one to maybe a more reasonable size, at 1300+ pages this is a big and long read, but overall well worth it.