Soulsmith

This started so good. New clans, new powers, new world was shown to Lindon. However, as the story went it started to drag.

Don't get me wrong, I loved every second Eithan was on the screen, but 5 clans alliance kept being mentioned and we only saw two of them with third one mentioned here and there. Will is definitely keeping stuff to be revealed in sequels and I didn't like that he sort of artificially inhibited the world building third of the way through.

I don't mind Lindon stopping by to train, to reach new levels, but it's like stopping the flow by putting the cork back in the bottle.

I'm much more persuaded that this series has huge potential than I was while reading Unsouled which really now feels like a prologue and nothing else. It's sort of Naruto for adults and I'm now here for it because it started going in its own direction. Only I fear the series is struggling from the same thing as many mangas do - artificially prolonging the story development for the sake of profit but... I guess this is the perfect moment to mention that I got almost the entire series along with the rest of Will's books for free on Kindle. So no harm there :) Kudos to Will for doing this, it's almost unheard of but he got a new fan.

Once I catch up I'm definitely buying the last book, I don't see how this can go wrong from here. I just can't give it 5/5 for the lack of progress in the second half of this book.

Lindon is in a lot of troubles by the end of this book and one thing that frustrates me is that I read descriptions of sequels and this stuff doesn't seem to be resolved in book 3. :/

P.S.: If Eithan turns out to be even remotely like Ardyn Izunia from Final Fantasy XV he's going to be one of my favorite villains. He's not a villain yet, don't even know if he becomes one. But he has the same “joker” persona vibes as Ardyn and I'm all here for it!