Oathbringer

I am Unity was such a fantastic moment. I remember I had to stop reading and take a breather shortly before the big moment. Things looked bleak for damn near every character. Adolin was stabbed in the gut, Kaladin and Shallan were out of Stormlight facing six fused. Szeth and Lift were struggling to keep Nightblood under control without his sheath. Renarin saw the future; Jasnah kills him and Dalinar has fallen to Odium. Jasnah was just about to kill Renarin. Dalinar had just been virtually destroyed by Odium. I couldn't see an out but I should have trusted Sanderson. It blew me away.

Dalinar flashbacks had some great moments, like him walking out into the highstorm to get his knife he thought he'd lent someone.

NO MATING!

Most of the bridge four scenes I thought were great. I was so happy when Hobber finally was able to glow. Learning more about Rock and seeing his family was great. The moment when Lopen finally reached the third ideal. 

Oathbringer just had too many good moments to list them all, but one of my favorites was definitely this: 

"They looked out at the street and found Kaladin approaching along with what seemed to be an army of five or six hundred men, wearing the uniforms of the Wall Guard.

Adolin sighed softly. 'Of course. He’s probably their leader now or something. Storming bridgeboy.'"

 
Just finished Oathbringer, and it was great! My boy Dalinar is still my favorite character. Every time Shallan had her little identity crisis, I thought of the movie Inception, because she was forgetting what was real.

 
Brady the Great said:
Just finished Oathbringer, and it was great! My boy Dalinar is still my favorite character. Every time Shallan had her little identity crisis, I thought of the movie Inception, because she was forgetting what was real.
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Dalinar was chill. I'm still a huge fan of Kaladin/Adolin without Shallan. I'd honestly prefer is Sanderson just did not attempt to write female characters. Shallan marrying Adolin still makes me cringe. 

 
I found this to be one of the best three stormlight books so far. 😉 

It finally felt like we could really explore the world with Kholinar and Shades... shaedes, Shadesmar! The only difficult part was finding out about Dalinar's Past (Which he overcame Whoop!) and Kal not being ready for his 4th oath. At least this gives something exciting to wait for in the next one! 

 
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Horatio Longworth said:
I enjoyed reading every Taravangian POV, as much as it angered me as well.
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I just finished the books :D  so I'm joining the party late.

But something that I liked from the Taravangian POV chapters was that the author of the Diagram had a god-like intellect, so much so that even Odium couldn't read the entire thing and understand it. I think Diagram Taravangian knows that Taravangian has to work with Dalinar, but that Taravangian can't know that he's working with Dalinar or else Odium will foil that plot, so he made this convoluted plot. I think that's also why Graves my have misinterpreted part of the diagram — and why Taravangian isn't so sure that Dalinar truly is the opponent.

Maybe at the end of RoW or close to the end of Book 5, the diagram will change (like how the words appeared at the end of OB) and reveal what Taravangian needs to know about Dalinar.

This is literally all conjecture :D  but ...

 
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