Sunday, April 6, 2025

the caves of steel

Ch 1
Lije is a police detective. He doesn't like robots or space people. We are in New York city in the future when robots and space people are common place.
A spaceman has been murdered. Lije is on the case and his partner is a robot spaceman. 

Ch 2
We're world building here. Fun tidbit,  Asimov thinks after  we have 8 billion people we will have wide spread starvation.   He's not wrong, but we also had widespread starvation when we had 5 billion people. 
The robot detective looks like a man

Ch 3
On the way to Lije's place (if8 his wife doesn't throw a fit about this i will ) there's a bit of a mobile scene because a shoe store has robot clerks.  Robot detective solves the problem by threatening to kill everyone with his gun.

Ch 4
Backstory of detective and his wife.
Mostly world building. This world sucks ass.  There's a caste system and every one is crammed into cities which are fully enclosed.  Worst of all, you have to earn privacy credits to earn the ability to eat on your own God DAMNED HOME!!!! otherwise you have to eat with your neighbors in a communal eating room.
Ooh, I almost forgot, you don't have your 9wn bathroom.   Everyone has to use public toilets and showers and whatnot.

Ch 5
Detective and rovot talk about the murder they're trying to solve.  Robot has an amazing idea.  The murderer entered the place where only space people live via the countryside. 
The detective 's wife is named Jessie (hey jessie) and she and their son leave so rovot and man can talk alone and when she comes home she is maybe a little drunk cause she's all, Mr, I think you might be a robot. And he's all, yes I am.  It amused me.

Ch 6
Jessie is worried that if people find out there's a robot living here there will be a riot and they'll die in the riot.

Ch 7
Detective gets to space town and declares there has been no murder.  His robot partner is the man that was supposedly murdered.

Ch 8
Robot disabuses detective of his suspicious by taking the skin off his arm to show him his rovot hand.

Ch 9
Spaceman lectures detective on his hopes of recruiting earth people to colonize more planets.  The currently colonized planet livers have become stale and old and are frankly too comfortable to colonize any more planets.  All you earthers that are packed into cities like sardines should be champing at the bit go to space and find a wide open planet to roam on.

Rovot tells detective that they only had one suspect.  The police chief cause he's the only known earther to have been in the area where the space man was killed.

Oh, space men regularly live to be 300.  Also, they kill any sickly children that might threaten their way of life.

Ch 10
Robot. And detective get an apartment to stay in so if there's an anti robot riot, detectives kid and wife won't end up colateral damage.
Robot and detective go to a community kitchen for dinner.  They are being watched by people that were at the previous days shoe store uprising.

Ch 11

In our book club meeting about the first half of this book I complained a lot about how this book is really set in the fifties even though it's the future.  The end of this chapter is really truly painful in that regard.  Detective and robot lose their followers.   Detectives soon shows up at the apartment. This is upsetting. What's more upsetting is that wife sent him cause she was worried.   Detective calls his wife and tells her to calm down.  It's not as bad as a Brent Weeks book, but it's pretty bad.

Ch 12
Detective brings in a robot expert asking what it would take to make a robot that would kill and the doctor says its inconceivable. Also doctor figures out robot is a robot.

Ch 13
Robot posits the theory that detectives wife is part of the anti robot conspiracy. 

Ch 14

Robot is right.  Wife is an antirobotnik. 

Ch 15
They go to a soy factory and arrest a man for being an antirobotnik. That doesn't really feel totally legal, but since when do cops care about the law.

Ch 16
Antirobotnik smacks robot in The face.  Robot Talks about how his kids would be better off on another planet. 

The police robot was murdered.  Detective thinks its a frame job against him.  Worse than that robot called home and found out that the investigation has been ordered closed and everyone in spacetown is leaving earth.

Ch 17

Robot explains to detective that the investigation doesn't matter.  It was a very small part in a much larger plan to get earthers to get back to colonizing.  It appears to have worked with the medivilizers and that's why the spacers are leaving.

Detective is between a rock and a hard place.  Commissioner is his friend and understands that detective is giving him solid evidence that the destruction of.police robot is a frame job.  But hes gotta follow the evidence, which is stacked up against detective pretty high.

But it's still today.  Detective has had a eureka moment and with an hour left he's gonna solve this thing.

Ch 18

It was the commissioner all along.  He's a midevilest. He knows jessie is a midevilest. He came up with this whole plan to have his friend screw up the investigation and if that didn't work throw him under the bus.

But he didn't really mean to do a murder.  He meant to kill robot.  But robot looks so much like his maker he accidentally killed the man and not the robot.

Sweet.

Thursday, April 3, 2025

the burning white

Ch 1
The broken eye try to assassinate kip.  This chapter is from the viewpoint of ferkudi

Ch 2 
This is the assassination attempt from kips point if view.

Ch 3 
Teia is on the ship and the person marked for death is Gavin.  It's fun that they white luxin sword/gun looks weird when seen with pyryl vision.

Ch 4
Liv returns to the white king.

Ch 5
kip has a card dream about his grandfather who's really his father.  Then one of the black guards makes fun of him for wearing ridiculous expensive clothes for all his loudly meetings.

Ch 6
Teia talks to gavin leaves the ship instead of staying to kill him.

Ch 7 
The people of the place kip is think he's pretty great.  But he doesn't like all this politics. But he is gonna go ahead and soak up the attention. Maybe declare himself king.

Ch 8
Teia is invisible and waiting to catch karris alone.  But karris is whining about having to freee gavin grayling.  So teia decides to go on her mission to destroy the broken eye without saying anything to karrris.

Ch 9
Kip doesn't wanna kill the bear man even though he deserted and the penalty for that is death.  Kips idea is to give him a knife so he can kill himself.

Ch 10
More stiff with kip and the army and their hopeless situation. 

Ch 11

LiV!!!!!
There is a river that connects this place to the outside world.  Liv knows that if the river opens up, outsiders will come in and wreck shop.  Liv's proposal to Karris's brother is that she live in that river and he leave her alone.   As a benefit she'll keep the river closed so outsiders don't come and kill him.

Ch 12
More political stuff with kip.

Ch 13
I'm on a boat mother fucker don't you ever forget.
Gunner talks about his childhood. It's unpleasant. 
Hus final pearl of wisdom, sometimes fighting makes you die faster.

Ch 14
Pippa does political stuff

Ch 15
Liv shows us how utterly fucked the cromeria is.  Their only hope is that pip somehow ends up there before the attack comes.  But liv is gonna help Karris's brother make sure that doesn't happen.

Ch 16
Gavin and gunner talks about their feelings.

Ch 17
Some bandit comes offering to join Kip's cause.  Kip says his men are welcome to join up.  But he's the head of the snake and must die.

Ch 18
Karris's dad's new wife is killed by an assasin.  She knew it was coming and even who was doing it.  But that doesn't make her any less dead.

Ch 19
Adross and Karris talk about the war and stuff.

Ch 20
Political stuff with kip

Ch 21
Teia leaves a note for karris, gets some stuff from her black guard bunk, has a lot of bad feelings and goes to live her life as a murder ghost.  Who knows how long that will last as she is being followed.

Ch 22

gunner and gavin
The old slave from their previous boat that named himself after God and claims to be a profit has stowed away on the boat.
I didn't figure out what he was really prophecizing but gunner decides not to.kill him.  Then there's a whale and a bunch of sea monsters attack the whale.

Ch 23 pg 160
Kip, he gets the bane for another color people didn't know existed.

Ch 24

Baller ocean battle with sea monsters and a whale. Gavin gets chucked out, presumably to swim to the island so he can kill God.

Ch 25 pg 175
Teia is not just paranoid she us being followed.
Its murder sharp.  If he's not sentimental she should be dead soon 

.ch 26
Gavin and orlaham make it to shore.

Ch 27
Kip is trying to find some military genius information from the cards he absorbed.  Big Leo tells him to be himself instead. Most military geniuses are assholes.  They follow kil cause he's not an asshole.

Ch 28
Kip has a dream about his grandfather trying to impress the father of the woman he is courting 

Ch 29 pg 196
Karris is not memorable.  There may be "important " plot I'm missing here.

Ch 30
Murder sharp is having a crisis of sorts so instead of killing teia he's kinda torturing her.

Ch 31
Kip figures out his brother's brother in law has all the banes.  The smart guy has an idea.

Ch 32
Karris is gonna make Quentin find teia and be her friend.

Ch 33
Kips father flashback.  His future father in law is telling him about highland atash legends and how the light bringer is a dragon and in their legends is the fire bringer and he doesn't stop the bad things from happening but he gets vengeful on those who did it after.  Kips dad makes the fun observation that the dragon statue looks like a turtle bear.

So maybe karris's brother does kill the chromeria and kip kills him after that.

Ch 34 pg 231

Ben Hadid figures out that kip could run the mirrors at the chromeria to defeat the banes.

. CH 35 pg 236
Murder Sharpe also came into the order as a spy.  A spy for the prism no less.  But the prism died and he just kept being a murderer for the order.  He's gonna give her the choice he never got.  She can rally join the order or she can run, never to be seen again.

Ch 36
Gavin and the profit that named himself after God make their way to the great tower in the middle if the island,

Ch 37

Tiea got.some documents written by former whites from murder sharp and she snuck into the white tower to give them to karris.  Who clutches her pearls while she reads them.

Ch 38

Kips dad thinks he's the lightbringer.

Ch 39

Tsisi tells kip she thinks he's the lightbringer.  She also says they should just stay here.  Fuck the chromeria.   Even if kip saves them they're gonna stab him in the back.

Ch 40
Karris gets a pep talk from a black guard.

Ch 41
Cruder talks to kip about his overwhelming guilt that what's yer face died and its Ll his fault.

Ch 42
Kip takes a stroll around the camp making small talk.  But he's really saying goodbye cause he's gonna go save the chromeria. 

Ch 43
Karris gives a speech at the luxaria and tells a bunch of the secrets from the white book.

Ch 44
Teia is fixing to kill, a black guard named halfcock

Ch 45
Kip makes bear man the satarap of their place and tells everyone he's taking a small group to save the chromeria. 

Ch 46
Teia disables halfcock so she can interrogate him about the order.

Ch 47
Karris takes over the training of drafters and kips dad tells her some bullshit about gavins sex slave.

Ch 48
Teia gets the location of an order safe house out of halfcock and kills him.

Ch 49
Gavin and orhalaom make it to the central spire and start the long climb up.

Ch 50 
Liv sends a messenger to kip to tell him if he attacks at apple grove on a certain day he could win by using the giant mirror there.

Ch 51
Quentin is gonna a work for teia and they won't be alone anymore.

Ch 52
Karris is getting ng pretty good at military 0lanning.  To the point that when Liv's dad tells her yes coming with ships and troops and requests for funds to recruit more to fight karris's brother it all makes perfect sense to her.

Ch 53
Remember when kip stole a cloak from death and gave it to teia? Me either, but appearantly death (here referred to as Abaddon) knows teia has his cloak and says he's gonna find her and do unspeakable things for all eternity.   Then two other immortals also talk about how hopeless her situation is.  But maybe they can kill her before abaddon gets his hands on her.

Ch 54

Flashback to Kip's grandpa who is really his dad working with gavins mom trying to figure out the lightbringer prophecy. He seems to be convinced it's one of their sons.  Im pretty sure it's kip.  I hope the kills father and father and father and son means kips kills andross and Zymon.

Ch 55
Kip and company find a village that zymon has slaughtered. They know this cause they didn't kill the children and one guy stumbled across the village and tried to do what he could.

Ch 56 
Teia is keeping an eye on the safehouse where she killed that guy and eventually a slave shows up to do some cleaning.  She fillows him home digs through some things and finds a shirt with an insignia that leads her to believe it was her old owner that owns this guy.  She's going to enjoy murdering that lady.

Ch 57
Kip and company make it to Karris's brother camp and theyre already gone.  Then they have a fun talk about how even if they get back to the Chromeria and they beat karris's brother kips grandpa who's really his dad or his half brother zynon who's really his nephew will kill him.

Ch 58 pg 369
Teia has been spying on her old owner.  Shes in the order all right.  But her motivation is to get vengence on the guiles. Fat chance.  Even so teia follows an associate of her.old.owner and kills him. She is sad and lonely.

Ch 59
Kip figures out the mirror Liv told him about was under ground.  Would have been useful if Karris's brother's army was still here.

Ch 60
Kid's dad is the worst.  He didn't actually take anything karris told him about zymon to heart.  He told zymon that karris hated him and he didn't understand.   So zymon attacks karris and a black guard shows up to save the day.

61
Quentin tells teia all the stuff that karris and her spies were able to figure out. They know who this mysterious wine merchant that's in the order is.  Also every tower in the chromeria is taller than the original plans so there must be all sorts of hidden rooms.  Somehow teia figures the old man that controls the order, just have a secret room in Andross guile's tower.

62
Gavin!!!!

Each lap around the giant tower is another of the seven deadly signs gavin has to face.  With each one he can feel that a person that could draft a specific color wouldn't be able to get through.  Orlam tells him he's not taking part because he's here to support gavin.  Then when he's done orlam is gonna do the thing by himself.
Also we think gunner might be dead because orlam told him he prophesied that gunner would live.  So gunner swam through shark infested waters expecting to make it.

63
There's ships that are gonna fight and kip knows the guy in charge of the chromeria fleet and he sucks.  He's gonna get his ass handed to him.  So theyre gonna go in after the fight to pick up seviseniors.

64
Teia is an unfeeling killing machine.  She kills her old owner and feels nothing. 

65
Kip and company are attacking. The goal is to take out the drafters that can raise the bane before it's too late.

66
Andros is visited by kips actual grandfather. It's very foreboding.

67
Kip and company are attacked by sharks.
The black whale tries to help, but they're too late.  The bane is rising and they run away.

68
Teia tells quintin she thinks God is telling her she's gonna die soon.
At long last Teia gets the hug she needs so badly.

69
Kip returns to the chromeria and tells them koios is coming with sic banes and he can save them.

70
Gavin makes it to the top.  There's a casm he has to jump.  All the stones that were supposed to be offerings to Orlam such that Orlam will grant him wishes are too heavy. They've gotta go.  No wishes for Gavin.  He makes the jump and now I guess he's off to kill Orlam.

71
Andross flashback.
I never seem to care what happens in these.
.
72
Teia has been following the wine guy.  The meeting is happening today.  Things get real complicated when she spots murder sharp.  She has a real hard time not following murder Sharapova and trying to kill him.  She sticks with the wine merchant hoping following him will give her the location of the big meeting. 

73
Kip is trying to save the day and andros is a dipshit.

74
Teia follows the wine merchant to a brothel and it turns out the big meeting is now.  Also, the big meeting happens in a language she doesn't know and she tries to follow who she thinks is the leader of the broken eye but it doesn't work out.

75
Karris tells a bunch of people theyre gonna na die in the war.
.76
Kip gets a letter from Andross saying he wants to play cards tonight and tomorrow wants to have breakfast with him and his wife.
77
Ben hedad comes to teia to save the day.  He has been working with Quentin on the plans to try to.figure out where the broken eye's secret rooms are.  Somehow theyre gonna go poke around.
78

Kip plays cards with his dad and it sucks.  Andross sucks.  He might think he's saving the world or whatever but he's always a dick about it and I hope he dies soon.

79
Gavin gets to the top and God isn't there.  But he now has a solid plan of action. He's going to carve the word lies into the black rock at the top with the sword and then he's going to jump off to his death at the bottom.

80
Kip probably loses this game too.  Then he'll probably win the last one.  It's all pretty formulaic. 

81
Another kip chapter?  We just had one of these.  Probably cause they want every card game to be its own chapter.  But that doesn't happen either.  Really nothing happens in this chapter.

82

Another andross flashback.  All stuff we already know about him being a weight and his wife leaving him. 

83
Kip
Finally getting to some good stuff with him and andross and the card game.  Andross's offer if kip wins is to make him prism.  Kip's counter is that if he wins Andross publicly declares kip is the lightbringer. Andross is losing his mind a little bit cause he thinks he's the lightbringer. 
Kip wins, its so fucking good.

84
Ben hedad and teia are snooping around the chromeria trying to find the hidden office of the old man that controls the broken eye.  They think they've found it hidden behind the elevator shaft between floors.  But its boobytrap'd.  They are gonna ask the smartest person they know to help them figure it out. 
But my favorite part of this chapter is when theyre talking about the battle that's going to happen tomorrow and very matter of factly Quentin says that God is going to show up and save us.

85
Kip and Liv's dad tallk battle plans.

86
Ironfist shows up.
They're all worried he's gonna propose marriage and how's that gonna work out.  But no, he proposes death.  A guile has to die.  And it cant be zymon.  Ironfist knows all about zymon.

87
Kip is working on the chromeria's mirror system and there's some burocrazy so hes threatening people and that will probably get the job done.

88
Teia goes to kip.  But kip isn't there.  He tells tsis and cruxer that ironfist is in the order and she knows cause she's the one that killed his sister. Cruxer leaves, presumably to do something rash.

89

Karris and andross argue about who should die to satisfy ironfist.

90
Ironfist is really here to save gavin.  He sneaks out to do so, but cruxer is laying in wait for him.  They fight.  Cruxer dies.  Ironfist is bleeding heavily from his wounds.  Maybe he will also die.

91 Karris
She and kip talk about their feelings and that karris is gonna be the one that dies.  It is wild that anyone would think this chapter has any meaning to anyone after the previous chapter.

92 ironfist
This chapter is nuts.  Ironfist somehow makes it from where he fought cruxer to Gavin's prison.  In said prison he figures out the imaginary friends in each cell is the remains of a god of that color that Gavin captured and imprisoned here.  A prison he made for the brother that was already dead.  
This chapter sharpens the point that Gavin is out of his mine to as sharp as it can possibly be.  Nothing Gavin says can be taken at face value. So in his chapter when he got to the top and God wasn't there, if you believed it then its understandable,  but if you believe it now, you really shouldn't. 
Then somehow ironfist's dead brother carry's him out and somebody finds him and takes him to a healer.

93
They're doing the ceremonial killing of Karris even though Ironfist isn't there to see it. Zymon is excited to be the one to kill Karris.  They're about to do it and Andross says to stop.  Zymon's gonna do it anyway so Kip grabs his knife hand and elbows him in the face.  Zymon is escorted out.   Then a black guard comes running to tell them to stop.

94
Teia is the one that found ironfist and brought him to the chamber where they're doing the thing.  Ironfist is all confused as to how cruxer knew he would be there.  He thinks maybe someone in the order told him.  Also he te)ls teia that grinwoody is the head of the broken Eye. She tries to run after grinwoody but he gets away.

.95 again teia
Another two viewpoints chapters in a row.  I wonder if because this is the last book he just wanted more chapters or something.  
She goes to grinwoody's secret spot and waits for him.  But she's exhausted and falls asleep.  When she wakes up she finds the room is open and Ben hedad and the lady helping him with the code breaking are in the room unconscious.   So is murder Sharpe.   He tells her how nice he is being in that he didn't kill her friends.

96 karris

They are talking about war.  It's pretty cool how good danavis is at this.

97 
Teia is still alive.  What the seer said to murder Sharpe before he killed her really has him shook.  He speaks to teia of how he had fantasized that they might end up having a romantic relationship and living happily ever after. Shes alive for one reason.  He wants one of her teeth.  He tells her how he's gonna sedate her in such a way that when the sun comes up and her eyes dilate when she sees the sun, she will die.  She says she will willingly let him take her tooth if he promises to protect her father.  He agrees.  Also, the order has decided to side with koios.  They're gonna sabotage the defenses right before the planned time of the attack.



98  kip

Cruxer's body is found and its sad.

99 teia
TWIST, Teia has filled that tooth with poison and it kills murder Sharpe. 
Shes got lots of work to do.

100 Kip
Andross summons all the mighty to give them prebattle gifts.  Armor and weapons.  He gives Kip his seven kings card.  KIP says he's not gonna use it.

101 teia
She wakes up and realizes she's spent most of the day unconscious. She finds the wine guy and poisons the wine the order is planningtodrink.  But she also impersonated the poison taster.  So she's in quite the pickle. 

102 teia, again
She just drinks the wine.  Shes gonna die.  But maybe she'll take out the order with her.

103 kip
Teia shows up and tells him she's dying.

104 Quentin 
He's gonna give some sort of Sunday speech.  He's nervous. He feels a little silly being nervous when war is hours away.  But that's how he feels.

105 GAVIN!!!!!!!
Sunday morning and the sun looks weird and doubles.  Gavin thinks it's a mirror trick.  But he moves toward it.  Without the knife.  He's walking towards God knows what.  Then the sun turns into a pair of eyes and a man and gavin really regrets not bringing the knife.  They fight.  Gavin figures out it's not God.  It's the first prism lucidonious.  Gavin says he's here to replace him.  
Really hoping he does and then gunner shows up and kills him.

106 kip?
Its kips viewpoint but this chapter is really about teia and Quentin. It's a little about kip and how andross hasn't declared him lightbringer yet cause the prophesy says others try and fail and then the light bringer succeeds.  I assume this means zymon and andross will try and fail and then kip will make the mirrors work to save the day.

Teia is presumably already dead from the poison.  We expect the broken eye to make their move any minute.  Quentin is giving his speech about how orhalam will save them and sinners will pay.  An army man decides now is the time to act and he shouts something and then attacks Kip.  But he is bleeding out of his eyes from the poison teia put in the ceremonial wine all the broken eyes drank.  So his attack isn't all that powerful and also big Leo whacks him in the head with the chain weapon andross gave him.

107 gavin pg 657
Lucidonious is annoyingly strong.
They keep fighting and as the sun gets stronger so did Lucidonious. Gavin has a great idea, maybe he will lose power when the sun goes down. But its 10 am.  And it's the longest day of the year.

Also, I don't understand why lucidonious doesn't draft and kill gavin right quick.  Like how superman never seems to use his lazer vision.  He could take out most anyone with it.  But he very rarely does.

108
The attack is happening.  Danovis tells kip to get to tower 12 for two reasons.  1 they wanna separate their leaders so if one goes down another can take over rather than being killed in the same attack.  2 to keep an eye out for the bane.  Kip needs to see it and signal danovis the second he sees it to alert the army to switch from luxin fighting to gun fighting.

109 liv

I think she's taking the ultraviolet bane and making it fly above the cromeria. 

110 kip
He sees the orange bane coming.  But it doesn't attack directly,  it attacks by sending fear.  It's pretty awesome.

111 karris
She goes to the chromeria's central chamber thinking theyre all gonna go through the plan together.  But no, only the blue is there.  He tells her they made zymon prism.  Also that's only in position. They dont have the blinding knife so they cant do the ceremony.  
That's the plan though.  All these people hate the guiles.  They expect zymon to burn out using the mirror and somehow that will lead to the downfall of the guiles.

112 kip

They somehow get their heads about them and start fighting in earnest.  It's an absolute massacre. Nothing koios sends at them is effective. Everything ends up on fire from either cannons or barrels full of red luxin they fling at the enemy to light them on fire.  

Also there's a summons from Andross.  Everyone thinks its a trap.  But they go anyway.

113 gavin
More wrestling with God.  Gavin's figured it out though.  God is trying to drag him into the mirror to the holy world.  But then God turns into his younger brother that died.

114 karris
Zymon is killing their people with the great mirror.  Shes decided she needs to kill him personally. But when she goes to leave her room to do so trainer Fisk is there with 20 black guards to arrest her for treason.

115 gavin
Gavin's brother explains that he wasn't murderered by a blue whight like the story that was told.  He was sacrificed to make the real Gavin The prism.  You see, they dont find the prism anymore.  Not for a long time.  What they do is find one of their own that they want to make prism and then they have the prism stab 7 children to steal their power.  But Gavin's little brother was an omnicrome so they only needed to sacrifice one child.

But then things get interesting in the intervening years when dazen doesn't need to steal power from children to be the Prism.  He's a natural prism. His mom and dad kill a bunch of people to keep his secret.

116 kip

Kip goes down to the back dock like he was told to.  Andross says its because the lightbringer has to be on the back dock when the banes make landfall according to prophecy.  A messenger comes to tell them Zymon's gone crazy.  Andross is all, duh, kill him then. They're like ohhh, ugh, ok, I guess.  Seeing this kip is like, fuck sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time, I gotta go stop zymon. 

Then it switches to andross's inner monologue.  If kip does stop zymon and he can save them with the mirror, he's the lightbringer. If not, maybe he fails just like zymon and andross saves the day cause he's the lightbringer. 

117 gavin

He decides to kill himself with the blinding knife.  His little brother is like, if you're gonna kill yourself, at least see what's on the other side of the mirror first.  He does, its a beautiful paradise.  I'm leaning toward thinking this is heaven.

He comes back and his brother is gone but orhalam the slave is there.  He tells him the prison he made was for the evil immortals that he went out alone to capture. And it worked. He caught them all.  But he knew he could also set them free.  So he wiped his own memory and replaced it with the lie that Gavin was down in that prison.


118
In case you forgot,  the whole of the cromeria is built on slavery and brutality they show you a scene from the mirror execution a year ago where the luxiat was executed and turned out to be an evil imortal. A slave is whipped bloody by another slave right before its to happen.

119 Karris 
They actually put her in chains.
But its a ruse.  Commander Fisk gets her out and unchained.  But when the lift gets to the ground floor there's a bunch of dipshits.  Aram is still a dipshit in case you forgot he existed.  He tries to arrest karris, but there's a crowd and they have guns.  So the dipshits dont get to do their dipshittery.

This book sucks.  In fact, the last three books suck.  The first two books were awesome and there was all this kickass magic fighting and it kicked ass.  But now we're at the end and nobody is gonna fight with magic anymore.  They're just gonna shoot guns.  And not even that much.

120 gavin
That scene with the slave being whipped was a vision orhalan made him see.  They talk about how havin has lived his life.  The basic punchline is that if he were more vulnerable things would have come crashing down around him.  But many helping hands would have been happy to help him rebuild.  He goes to the edge and he sees the slave orhalam still on the other side.  Who are you talking to over there says the old ship slave.  Gavin turns to the thing that has taken the form of the slave and says you're not orhalam.  But then he says, but I am.

121 kip
Here we are at the end and we're gonna have kip maybe get the jump on some light guards and there isn't even the suggestion that he might kill them with his magic powers.

No fight at all.  They just go up and zymon i guess will be disposed of off screen while kip tries to save everyone with the magic mirrors.

122 dazen
He falls to his knees with the acceptance that this is in fact God in front of him.

He's completely failed in his mission.  He's not even thinking about how to kill God.  He's Just like, you're god and I trust you.  God removes the black luxin that was his right eye.  He asks what he wants and he's all free the sea demons that are former prisms.  When God is all "you sure you dont want me to save your friends and families?" dazen is all "if you're God, you'll save them anyway."

123 kip
He's kind of getting the hang of using the apparatus.  He kills a couple colors.  Things are going well.

124 Ben hadad 
Zymon and his psychos are attacking.  They're doing a good job defending.   But then something super weird happens.  They kind of describe it how gavin described his minute in heaven.

125 kip
The colors he thinks he killed come back.  Another wight was able to step in and take their place. This just will not do.  Kip figures out the only way to stop them is to destroy the seed Crystal's.  But as he figures that out, Liv on the ultraviolet bane attacks from above.  He almost loses control of the aparatus to her super powerful ultraviolet powers.  But then he has some sort of vision where he realizes that not only are the bands and the wights the problem.  But also each immortal evil God has clung to their color and they are teaching them how to use their power to the max.  I wonder if these are the ones gavin had imprisoned and andross by putting gavin down there and making him have to escape unwittingly freed them.
Punchline: Kip destroys the ultraviolet seed crystal and maybe Liv with it.

126 karris
They're gonna directly attack the blue bane and destroy its seed crystal.
Problem, grinwoody is there.

127 kip
Kip is getting good at.comtrolking the apparatus. The fight is going well.  But zymon and his men break through kips black guard and its really horrible.

128 karrris

They storm the blue bane and destroy the seed crystal.  Big Leo and his group of black guards show up just in time to start running away before the bane dissolves and they have to swim for it.

129 kip
He simply cannot believe this is happening.  This is not really happening here. You bet your life it is.  Kip dies pointlessly.

130 furdecookie

Furdecookie does a lot of fighting.  I found this chapter to be enjoyable if not very memorable. 


131

I think i hate this chapter the most.
It starts with karris fighting.
Then it goes to gavin talking to god.
Then Gavin uses black luxin to fly to the cromeria where he kills all the bane in a secind and he dies.

132
Liv's dad realizes that the reason liv wants to control the mirrors is that karris's brother has some sort of light generator and liv will be able to keep their side lit up all night.

133
Andross and teia are still alive.  They make their way up to the mirror tower.  Liv has been weakened by Dazen's black luz8n attack.  Teia is able to chuck her out a window.

134
Corvin danavis is determined to hold the fountain square.  He's gonna light h8mself on fire with red luxin and kick some ass and probably die trying.  Everyone other than andros is probably gonna die trying.

135
Dazen is still alive.  Orhalam isn't done with him yet.  He wants him to control the mirrors and finish was kip started.

136
Quentin kills zymon

137
Dazen figures out kip was sending white luxin to the other mirrors around the country to unite them all a day give the array user full power over all colors.  Unfortunately the person in the aparatus is Andross.  But to save the world you've gotta work with people that suck shit.

138
Coffee is great.
Karris finds kip.  She spots the coffee seller that nursed her back to health when andross had her beaten.  He gives kip some coffee and he comes back to life.

Coffee is GOD!!!!

139
So I guess dazen didn't use black luxin to transport himself to the cromeria. Somehow he's gonna jump and magically make it to the cromeria so he can save karris.

140
Karris's first words to the back alive kip is can you fight.  He says yes, but the answer is really no.

141
Karris and group go out to kill her brother.

142
Dazen ends up on a flying machine he calls the condor.  They fly to the jaspers and they see the sea demons. Dazen jumps out cause the sea demons are gonna give him a ride the rest of the way.

143 pg 844
Karris gets to her brother and she's all like, you're losing, give up.  He's all like, I've got a dozen backup seed crystals and the pirate kings will be here tomorrow. It was important he attack on Sunday.  But hes got the rest of his life to finish it.

I guess this is another half karris half dazen chapter.  I hate it.  I also hate how small most of these are.  The previous one was Pages.   You're telling me that chapter and the dazen stuff on this chapter couldn't have just been a single chapter?

Anyway, I was wrong about the sea demons thing.  Instead dazen almost lands on the top of the tower karris and her brother are on.  BTW, koios created a giant blue luxin tower so he and his sister could talk about things alone.  Dazen realizes he's not gonna stick the landing and decides to throw the blinding knife are koios.  
Instead it lands in karris's hands and she stabs koios with it.
She sucks out all his luxin and he falls off the top of the tower.  Another way to deprive me of magical fighting.  Thanks for nothing brent.
Dazen is there barely holding onto the edge, he falls, Gill grayling catches him.  I bet Brent is very proud of himself for the line "i lost one gavin, nagga lose another."
Again, only 4 pages.  Really phoning it in to get the fuck out of the series huh brent?

144 
Kip fights the devil.  Teia shows up and saves kip.

145
The pirates are inconsequential. 

146
Liv is still alive.  As she's scammpering away she comes across her dieing father and heals him.
.147
Andross gives grinwoody his freedom.

148
Andross is to be pronounced as the lightbringer. But he doesn't feel good about it.  Also, im real confused as to who kips real dad is.  But dazen wants to try to be his dad now.  That's convenient cause he's married to Karris who at some point declared publicly that kip was her son.

149 gavin

Andross claims he's a better man and he's gonna make the world a better place.  
I gotta give this chapter some props.  One of my main criticisms of this book is that nobody seems to be enjoying themselves.  Even the dipshits at the top like Andros.  But here, he seems to be having a good time.

150 kip
the mighty sit around and tell war stories with ironfist and teia in the hospital. 

151 karris
She and dazen are being romantic in preparation for their wedding.  Or something like that.  I didn't really pay that much attention. It's the last chapter, it doesn't matter.  Maybe Adera will read it and explain it to me. 

Epilogue 1 kip
I'm not sure Brent knows what an Epilogue is.  This is prep for Kip's wedding, which i understand is basically gonna happen right after Dazen's wedding.  There's no good reason for this to not be chapter 152.

Epilogue 2
Teia has a happy ending.

Epilogue 3
Ironfist has a happy ending. In that he and Dazen go out and fuck shit up together and they love it.

Postlude Teia pg 920
Grinwoody didn't leave.  He thinks he's gonna rebuild the order with Aram And Teia.  He's not, cause Teia's gonna kill him.

Characters pg 923

Glossary pg 933

Appendix pg 951

That's it.  Nothing more to see here.  You shouldn't be here.  Book report is over.  Scram.