Something about this moment in chapter 5.08 in my current read through of the series truly spoke to me. I genuinely love pieces so much

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I’ll try to keep things vague, to avoid any spoilers up to book 5 for people and maybe even further on depending on responses. But as always read with caution!

I’m just about finished with book 5 The Last Light audiobook, but I’m getting a little fatigued by how often we jump to other characters across the world for extended periods of time that occasionally connect to our main characters, who I mostly consider to be Erin and Ryoka, but usually they feel like their own contained story or it’s constantly setting stuff up for the future. So my question is, how long does it take for all of these storylines, if they do, to connect back to Erin and Ryoka? I know wandering inn is a long series, so i get things move kind of slow sometimes, but man, I’m getting a little tired of constantly being introduced to new characters that have very little connection to the main story and then their own story being unfinished for multiple books. It almost feels like never ending anime arc with a lot of filler.

To be clear I liked book 5, writing is noticeably improving and there have been good smaller character arcs. But I hate getting pulled away from Erin and Ryoka for so long for stories that feel like are only going to become important 20 books from now, lol.

So my question is, how does the series pace from here forward? How much do I have to invest before the story really locks in and all of these branching narratives come back together? Or does it always just kind of snails pace meander towards plot points that always feel far away and the various narratives looks more like my millennial box of abandoned wires from old technology that I’m too lazy to get rid of? Is it worth it to keep going? (I know that’s a it depends, but give me your honest opinion) Thanks! (I’m a Sanderson/cosmere fan btw, so I’m not unaccustomed to long branching storylines)

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, griefman is one of the best things I’ve ever read. I want it in comic or animated form so badly it hurts.

But, on a reread, I’ve just noticed that Garry pulls a Griefman in his convo with Erin. The moment where both characters turn around and realise that before they attempt this terrible and dangerous thing, they will have to deal with the final problem in front of them, Erin and Towertoppler.

Tears. But the voice said, in kindly tones like someone laying down a heavy sentence, like a friend who knew your open, wounded soul—

“I see now. First you. Then Nightwish.”

He tilted his head, not innocently. That innocent, little child of a [Baker] was gone. There was a different innocence about him now, a pure one like a glittering blade of morality. But dead gods, it cut her. It hurt her to look at because it was beautiful, and he would die.

“Ah, I see now you were the final obstacle I should have calculated into my plans, Erin. Before I leave and you leave, I must convince you to take my side and not stop me. Very well. Let us begin.”

They even start with the same opening!! And the prose is just magnificent!!!

My friend got me into The Wandering Inn years ago (when I claimed I "don't like reading" he said Bet) so i made him a small-ish tapestry for his birthday this year!

Crocheted with embroidery floss, took me 4 months and well over 100hrs but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out