** spoiler alert ** 
 Wow, that ending!!!! Poor Wax. :( 
 I love Wax and Steris. I loved seeing TenSoon and that new kandra MeLaan. And overall I really liked the story. 
 I struggled a long while with this book and for the first half was pretty sure it would be getting three stars from me on account of one thing ... my epic disconnect with both Wayne and Marasi. Who take up a fair bit of the story. I understand that Wayne is not intended to be the most emotionally mature or wise of people and that he is also very defensive of Wax, but none of that made a difference in how much I hated his treatment of Steris. The fact that she is autistic and doesn't react the way another woman might made it worse for me as opposed to better. I have two family members with autism, I realize they have no term for it in their world but I still can't forgive this character. 
 As for Marasi, I didn't actively dislike the her (most of the time), but there was also very little I empathized or cared about in her character arc. 
 I will say that this plays into something I appreciate about Sanderson's writing -he doesn't just write the same kind of character over and over again. While his stories have some very similar themes, ones that somehow feel relevant to our world/current events regardless of when you read them; the characters exploring those themes are quite diverse. In this case it meant that two of the three main characters are people I didn't really care for even though they were "good guys". Kind of like in life. It happens. 
 To my surprise though, somewhere past the half way mark I started to really enjoy this story anyhow and finished quickly after that point. I immediately picked up Bands of Mourning as soon as I finished it.