2.75⭐️ Book 1 was okayyyy and so I went into this hoping at least SOME interesting stuff would happen. Boy was I wrong 😆 (Before you come at me for hating on slow pacing books, I literally just read Way of Kings and loved it) This ain’t slow pacing, this is a SLOGGGG, holy shit did anything happen in this book? I think majority of characters could have died and I wouldn’t have given a single shit. I had no investment in this but if you enjoyed it, I’m glad for you. Fitz was literally just a lovesick puppy this whole book and I grew very tired of it. I Pros: - good writing - the women (Patience and Kettricken) were awesome and I honestly wished this was instead a multi POV book -lots of political intrigue (just too much for my liking)

Fun! I actually really liked this one, it was very light hearted for the most part. As someone who’s never baked bread in their life but is in DEEP on sourdough tiktok, I found the premise of this very amusing. I hope when you read this, you think of Shrek ha.

You know how TV shows used to have 20+ episodes every season and at the time, that was the norm. And now we are fighting for our lives to get a measly 10 episode long season for shows that could have years between seasons. Think of Way of Kings as something to appreciate in that sense, there is 100% a shitton of filler in this book but you know what, IM HERE FOR IT. Filler is what makes something realistic; it adds depth and the monotonies of life. You’re not gonna have action packed plots for 80% of a book because that would take away the pay off. I will 100% be recommending this book to avid fantasy readers, but most definitely not to readers that are new to the genre because this is by definition, a slow burn fantasy.

Do not expect to understand every aspect of this book, especially the world building. Like Studio Ghibli films there’s not always reason to the rhyme. Sometimes things are purely based off of vibes and sometimes I am OK with that. This book was nowhere near perfect, in fact it had a lot of flaws, but I still very much enjoyed them despite those flaws. Some would say the romance in this book is very juvenile feeling and mushy and they would be correct, but I still fell for it. (However the random mildly explicit scene did feel hella out of place 🤨) What I enjoyed most about this book was the whimsical imagery and prose. I loved the messages and themes. Overall, just a beautiful story.