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adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Personal preference, but I don’t enjoy the steampunk/western setting as much as a more traditional fantasy setting. I also felt like the ending of the main storyline was a bit rushed and silly. 

Finally, why set up all this political turmoil when your protagonist hates politics and keeps insisting someone else will deal with it. I’d rather read a series about the person who is working for worker’s rights, or trying to negotiate fair treatment for the outer cities. Wax is pretty insufferable and selfish when compared to Vin and Eland.

That said, the very end of the book gave me goosebumps, so I didn’t hate it!

My hot take: Wax would be a total nimby if he lived in modern times.
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4.0
adventurous hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

4.5 ⭐

4.5

Dragged a bit toward the end but it really expands on the scope of the world. Great book, really looking forward to reading the Lost Metal finally after finishing my re-read of the trilogy (which I guess is now a quadrilogy).
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated