I've found that a little messiness is like manure on a field when you're trying to cultivate fear.

This was a satisfying ending to a really solid trilogy. I liked how the story used more of Nila (although I disliked her presence as a POV originally) and how the Adamat arc finally crossed back with others.

McClellan has created a really tight magic system with limitations and the mixture of Privileged and Powder Mages make a pretty formidable force. There is definitely more story that could have been covered but I liked that McClellan showed restraint and didn't overload the stories with details or explanations for how everything worked. I realize that there are side stories outside of this trilogy that McClellan has written and I may explore those if I want to dig deeper but I'm content for the story now.

However, if there was insight to Ka-Pole's magic or how the Kez's dark magic worked on creating Wardens (would it be similar to how Koloss were created in the Mistborn series?) then I would jump in to that story immediately because that was some of the best unmentioned parts of the books

It was odd the way Bo expressed regret over endangering the lives of those men in one breath and spoke of torturing innocent soldiers in the next.

A gripe from a previous book was corrected here and there was some humanity to the offset the excessive killing. The act of taking a life became a choice and not an immediate response. This was most noticeable in Bo but others wondered if there was too much blood on their hands.

All in all this was a great trilogy and I can see why Sanderson would recommend it to fans of his work because it's similar in the right ways and different enough to not be a direct copy of Mistborn.