I love love loved the first half of this book. Great world building, great characters. There were some interesting gender and race dynamics that were cool to see. And I loved the build up of the three stories. But she kind of lost me somewhere in the middle. All three stories just got less interesting to me about halfway through, which is strange because that's where the "action" of the book started picking up. Don't get me wrong, I still ended up liking the book. But it just didn't blow me away. I will check out the other books in the series.

We got a lot of questions and a lot of answers here. We got some more world building and some cool new concepts. I guess I enjoyed hearing more of Essun's story, but Nassun's story was definitely the best part for me. The story became a lot more interesting here once she appears. I also surprisingly enjoyed getting more of Schaffa's backstory. He becomes a lot more sympathetic here. Otherwise, I was actually kind of bored. We'll see how the whole story wraps up.

Great end to the series. Really enjoyed the themes on motherhood. And of course we got to learn way more about the lore of the world. How the shattering happened. How the world got to be the way it did. We got to see Nassun grow, and got to learn more about Hoa and that backstory. And I liked learning about the Neiss and seeing some of the ancient cities. But the book wasn't perfect. Some of this book felt a little heavy handed compared to the other two. And something about it just didn't suck me in. It took me a long time to get through it.