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Tress’s reckless heroism is beginning to look like self-harm.

The most honorable and noble pirates I’ve ever read.

Does gratitude equate to “love”? Narrator tells us it does.

Heroism: the audacity of Tess barking orders after a few weeks at sea to life-long experience sailors.

It’s a good thing antagonists still write out their evil plans in diaries.

Holt is the same enigmatic character as the Fool, in Hobb’s Farseer books.

Still on this irrelevant sidequest. Tress volunteers for mysterious dangerous job. Captain allows her despite the possibility of destroying the entire ship and everyone in it.

You can skip chapters 8 through 19

Annoys me when ominipotent Narrator/author lectures us and is fundamentally wrong. 10 hours of physical labor is not mentally “freeing.”

Also, Anne McCaffrey already thought up this world-building in her famous 1967 book series. I wonder of Sanderson forgot