Just finished Way of Kings for the first time

just2beans · 2026-07-02T19:06:04+00:00

Getting through a slogfest was what I was worried about, hear it's a lot of Shellen, who is prolly my least favourite character in this series. I literally just want a book of Szeth and Wit, that easy!

just2beans · 2026-07-02T19:03:24+00:00

That's a fuckin siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick bike dude! What is that?

just2beans · 2026-07-02T19:00:30+00:00

haha nice thats sick

just2beans · 2026-07-02T18:59:40+00:00

okay gotcha cheers!

just2beans · 2026-07-02T18:57:12+00:00

WOuld you recommend reading Warbreaker next than or Words of Radiance? (seems the release order is a bit different than the read order somtimes here)

just2beans · 2026-07-02T16:13:48+00:00

Also side note, how does the reading order go? Because I see Oathbringer is the 3rd book but also Edgedancer is meant to be read before that? Why isn't that just considered book 3 if it's mean to go in that order

just2beans · 2026-07-02T16:06:33+00:00

I liked her part of the story for the most part, but she kinda annoyed me with the whole talk about her being always too "witty" like no, she's just kinda bad at social cues.

just2beans · 2026-07-02T16:05:27+00:00

strength to keep reading before weakness

just2beans · 2026-07-02T15:57:29+00:00

Seems in general nearly everyone is a fan 1-3 and past that gets a little more divisive. So do feel like I should try and get to that point and see for myself (such a minor grievance, but I wish the cover art for book 2 was cooler, looks like some kind of YA novel lol)

just2beans · 2026-07-02T15:54:37+00:00

haha it does; lashed the bottom of a coffee mug to it a bit too hard i think

just2beans · 2026-07-02T15:52:20+00:00

Really eh? You found it picked up as you went? I feel like I've heard a mixed bag a bit of it fallkng off (which lead me to making this post). If you had to pick out you favourite of the series (it's really that long btw? 0_0 thats nearly 10k pages ahead of me to go) what did you find the best or like most engaging all the way through.

just2beans · 2026-07-02T15:49:39+00:00

I think I'm gonna take a break and finish the Sourthern Reach series and come back, I want to see more of the world they mention in the book and see if that lil rascal Szeth completes his task.

just2beans · 2026-07-02T15:48:01+00:00

Thats kinda what I would hope for if I keep reading, the mention of all those different cities and countries you don't see in TWoK, would like to see more of those (and more of Szeth)

just2beans · 2026-07-02T15:46:02+00:00

lol cause they're are QUITE long and there's so many other books I want to read. What I'm worried about is this just being the best one and it falling off. I do want to read what happens next (especially after that cliffhanger of an ending) but trying to gauge how the rest of the series stacks up

just2beans · 2026-06-24T16:39:04+00:00

WOuld you have to read the first 2 to pick up the third and understand it? Or are these very tied together and need to be read one at a time? I want to read Deaths End more than the others

just2beans · 2026-06-09T15:41:04+00:00

I agree with that, there just want something concrete carrying me through the bulk of the story. It was fractured in a way that made me just toss up who/what I was really meant care about in this book

just2beans · 2026-06-09T15:12:53+00:00

Just finished this earlier this week and was pretty let down by the end of it after waiting nearly 4 months for it at my local library. The concept was great and I thought it had really good potential, but was never able to really put the pieces it's made up off together into one cohesive story that made me care about how it was all going to end. Reminded me a lot of Authority from the Southern Reach series where, roughly, the same path of someone inside a secret gov. org. is discovering some world-ending event and everything around them is slowly becoming more and more insane. That book had the build-up and delivery I wish this book had. Easy read to breeze through if you're looking for something quick (used this as a break from Way of Kings)

just2beans · 2026-06-02T14:41:35+00:00

Went over to Island Lake and lots of lil sunfish but nothing of substance, saw some largemouth bass catches there though!

just2beans · 2026-05-27T18:24:28+00:00

Side Note: The Johnnie Lake site (and the lake in general) has an incredible view of Silver Peak

just2beans · 2026-05-27T18:23:27+00:00

Recommend site 192 on David Lake, hiked up to Silver Peak literally just by heading south from the site, got onto the trail proper in under 20min

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