I'll have... many, many words to say (quelle surprise, I know) but for now I just want to put this out there: your relationship with Book 2 as a completed work is likely to be equally, if not more, as complex as with Book 1.

Speaking only for myself, I actually think that Book 1 hangs together better than Book 2 as a narrative whole... but that Book 2 has individual episodes (and one individual arc) that is better than anything in Book 1 and rivals the strongest parts of AtlA.

I'll wait until people who didn't obsessively stay up very late last week to watch early have seen to go off on a real tear, tho. :)

-Merc
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