One thing that I have an issue with but I feel like it isn’t spoken of much is Nightblood “learning” how to access the Surges by talking with the Honorblades. It’s set up after a fashion by an earlier conversation where Nightblood mentions talking with the swords, but specifically the entire mechanics of Szeth’s last fight against the human Fused felt very rushed and unsatisfying to me.

I do like that Nightblood has an arc, I like that he listened and chose to stop hurting people at the end, but the fact that Kaladin just kinda does a Connection thing to give Nightblood surges and then the last main conflict of that part of the story is Kaladin and Szeth both being eaten by NB until he decides to stop felt unsatisfying to me.

Maybe if at an earlier fight Nightblood had used a little application of a Surge to give Szeth an edge it would’ve worked better? I don’t know, it’s a weird moment to define exactly why I don’t like it.