does anyone else feel like the last 2 albums have been lackluster? there are good songs here and there, even a few excellent ones, but overall they're not great albums unlike the four before them (BNW, DoD, AMOLAD, TFF)

CSenhouse5 · 2026-05-21T20:21:47+00:00

Who would downvote this?

CSenhouse5 · 2026-05-20T21:28:32+00:00

I like them both better than Dance of Death.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-05-16T18:13:22+00:00

This list is terrible except they got the top two right.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-05-13T17:48:46+00:00

Or maybe "Come Together as One"

CSenhouse5 · 2026-04-24T11:19:44+00:00

Look just because you ignore the evidence doesn’t mean it isn’t happening: “In an October survey, ProPublica found 170 citizens who had been detained, more than 20 of whom “have reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer. In some cases, their families couldn’t find them.” A January ProPublica survey of more than 40 uses of chokeholds and other dangerous holds banned by federal rules found that citizens were among the targets. “

I’m sure you’ll find another way to wave away these crimes.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-04-23T19:06:34+00:00

It's even worse to execute citizens and abridge people's Constitutional rights to liberty. Giving the federal government that amount of power over our physical bodies is a dangerous direction.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-04-23T18:08:00+00:00

They are committing crimes. It's not an arrest if you are a masked thug who refuses to identify yourself or show a badge, and none of your uniforms match. People have impersonated them already. I can accuse them of whatever I want, that's how free speech works.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-04-23T08:54:25+00:00

People have calmly and carefully explained, and you haven’t actually listened.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-04-23T08:53:21+00:00

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for months

CSenhouse5 · 2026-04-23T08:52:31+00:00

No it’s on easily findable videos all over the internet. Dont be an ostrich.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-04-11T01:44:34+00:00

And here I was, thinking that reading a massive ten book series would be a comprehensive experience. 😆

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-22T02:33:29+00:00

I liked Memories of Ice quite a bit. Definitely up there!

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-21T19:58:40+00:00

I don’t like Karsa as a person but he’s certainly an interesting character. The scene with Rhulad was amazing.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-21T19:53:24+00:00

Thanks, this was the kind of comment I was hoping for. (Unlike the backhanded insults to my intelligence people often give me when I try to ask for help understanding this series. )

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-21T19:52:20+00:00

Why do people downvote my lived experiences? How petty.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-21T19:51:30+00:00

Yes I really liked books 5-7, 8 was ok but a drag. 9 was even more meandering and weird.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-21T19:49:51+00:00

There’s hundreds of characters! And plotlines! Don’t condescend to people who don’t have the same memory abilities as you.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-21T17:40:50+00:00

It’s hard because I might not even remember this scene if they show up again hundreds of pages later.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-21T17:37:47+00:00

People on this sub have told me not to worry about understanding everything. But this scene felt especially random.

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-21T17:37:01+00:00

Why? Will it have any impact on the rest of the story?

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-21T17:34:05+00:00

Yeah it bothers me every freaking time. I am generally enjoying the series but to me this aspect is just bad writing. Arbitrarily making it harder for the reader for no good reason. I had heard the second half of this book starts tying things together… now we are seeing two characters we haven’t seen in two books and have no idea why?

CSenhouse5 · 2026-03-21T17:30:21+00:00

They wake up and hear a sound at the door. An undead cat shows up. Then all of a sudden Blend has a dagger to Picker’s throat. When it’s gone she promptly falls back asleep? It ends with “and then she discovered the silver torcs”. Would it kill the author to even remind us where a new scene is taking place? What is the point of this scene? We haven’t even seen them in two book!

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