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All things Brandon Sanderson
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Oathbringer was the first book by Sanderson that I wasn't able to finish.
I like the setting of this series, hopefully reviews of Rhythm of War are great which may motivate me to get through Oathbringer if I know the following book is good otherwise that will be it for me with this series.
I like the setting of this series, hopefully reviews of Rhythm of War are great which may motivate me to get through Oathbringer if I know the following book is good otherwise that will be it for me with this series.
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Packed Oathbringer for my flight this morning. Think I’m 520 or so pages in. Of nothing else I’ll get to sleep. The first 450 pages or so were mediocre to boring to meaningless, then 50 pages picked up and were somewhat interesting. Now it seems to be heading back towards the uninspired.
And when I say packed this is the original hardback edition. A couple of things on my Kindle waiting. Last Reckoners and maybe another Legion?
And when I say packed this is the original hardback edition. A couple of things on my Kindle waiting. Last Reckoners and maybe another Legion?
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moonarchia
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Definitely read Dawnshard before Rhythm of War. You can absolutely get by without it, but it helps to smooth out instances in the first few chapters that would otherwise make you go 'wait...what?'
There are still a few of those as there will always be in a story that has a ludicrous number of characters, but Dawnshard does help with the transition.
There are still a few of those as there will always be in a story that has a ludicrous number of characters, but Dawnshard does help with the transition.
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Absolutely this. I enjoyed her character until the whole
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Well rest assured, at least the first quarter Rythm of War is more of exactly the same
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I just finished Rhythym of War last night. I think it's by far the weakest of the series. Though many things happen that will likely have ENORMOUS consequences for the story going forward, I found it almost a slog without a payoff. Oathbringer at least had the payoff of the Battle of Thaylen Field, and I enjoyed the leadup to it starting off when the POV shifted to Szeth for a bit, IIRC. Rhythym of War didn't pay off like that for me at all. I also think that some of the characters that showed up in Oathbringer that were from the larger cosmere could have had more of an appearance or more to do here. Though there were many things learned about the greater cosmere here that were formerly mysterious, the way that was handled was not well done IMO. Sanderson handled it almost more like a matter-of-fact data dump in several cases in this book, and that's out of character for how he handled revealing such information in the past. Granted, he was going to have to increase the rate at which larger cosmere info is revealed from the tiny trickle it was to something more, but this was just done poorly IMO.
I tried to keep this mini-review as spoiler free as I could, I might do a longer write-up later with spoiler tags attached after I have more time to process it all and read some more wiki shit about things I forgot from before.
And as a reference, I'd rank the main Stormlight Books like so: WoR >>>>>>>> WoK>>Oathbringer>>>>>RoW.
Hopefully the coming book about Szeth and Shinovar will be a step up.
I tried to keep this mini-review as spoiler free as I could, I might do a longer write-up later with spoiler tags attached after I have more time to process it all and read some more wiki shit about things I forgot from before.
And as a reference, I'd rank the main Stormlight Books like so: WoR >>>>>>>> WoK>>Oathbringer>>>>>RoW.
Hopefully the coming book about Szeth and Shinovar will be a step up.
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