What an amazing book! Brandon Sanderson is my favorite author and yet again he fails to disappoint me. It is practically unfair how good he is at writing both male and female perspectives. This book was a novella, but I think that he should've made it much, much longer! The idea intrigued me to no end. How could he just leave us hanging like that? So rude. I spent some time discussing with my friend Eric what exactly the stamps looked like. I imagined them to be longer and thinner like cigars while he imagined them to be fat and short. I just love how we can discuss something like that and the opportunity we were given came from this wonderful book! I am no wowed by much. If you read any of my other reviews you will see that I often criticize and often don't have to many things to say. I have read so much, that I believe something truly spectacular has to wow me and this is what this book has done! 
 Things I absolutely loved: 
 The Stamps: 
 a. The idea is so cool! To be able to change an object by changing it's history! I loved how it wasn't just you stamp it and it's changed. It makes perfect logical sense. The way it is possible is changing it's history. And then the idea that all of these objects want something or have a "soul" themselves in a different kind of realm was really cool too. The way he said he came up with it was when he was visiting in....somewhere asian, I can't quite remember, and back then if you were a ruler or whatever you could stamp a painting or a statue that you liked and it would forever be there. That stamps that were there were also read. 
 b. How you can craft or build a soul from these stamps even though it is viewed as immoral, it can still happen! So interesting! Shai has many stamps for herself that she can use to change her own history and therefore change herself. Amazing! 
 The characters: 
 Shai is such a cool character! She Is strong and just really awesome. It's hard to describe her in words. I love how she loves to be a thief. I think it's a particularly human part of a character when you can express a deep love that they have perfectly. 
 And I'm really tired, but all the other characters were really well put together. I loved learning about the king's life, going inside someone's mind so profoundly, in a way that no one ever has before 
 I just really loved this book.