This is now the longest book I’ve ever read, and the other books in the series are even longer! I feel like it didn’t need to be this long. There were long stretches that dragged for me, but I did enjoy it overall. I saw someone say (I think on Reddit?) that for much of this book, the characters are doing things and you really don’t get a sense of where it’s leading; I would say that’s accurate. I spent a lot of time wondering where this was going, how the plot and the characters were going to connect, and it wasn’t until pretty close to the end that they finally started to do that. I’ve already read the first era of Mistborn, so I knew what to expect from Sanderson’s writing and just kind of accepted how slow it could be. It pays off in the end!