All things Brandon Sanderson
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zzeris
King Turd of Shit Hill
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That’s about the percentage of entertainment that doesn’t have it forced in. Transgender rates in the DSM are less than 1% of the population but in 99% of modern media. How do you explain that?
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moonarchia
The Scientific Shitlord
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Qhue
Tranny Chaser
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Spoilers for Wind and Truth
Moash was such a dropped thread in this book. Started out with him set up as this badass foil that Sigzil needed to address with him getting hemalurgic spikes through his eyes etc. He kills Layten and then... That's it? Sigzil joins the now very fashionable trend of renouncimg his oaths and runs off to star in a spinoff novel.
Springbok
Karen
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Almost done. Worst Sanderson book I’ve ever read and am actually pissed this shipped how it did. Where and who are his editors? This is just so poorly paced, too long and reads like an in between book explaining the history of Roshar while also having the worst prose imaginable. The other books in this series always suffered from pretty mild dialogue but this is just worse in every single way.
If you told me this was written and edited by Reddit moderators I’d believe you. Man, so disappointing and one of the worst fantasy books I’ve read this year. The final arcs are better and probably the only reason I continue to read because this has taken me weeks to read. For reference I plowed through the Sun Eater books in a few weeks COMPLETELY.
Hopefully the time off of this series gives him perspective, but this series and its hardcore fans (sander-shelf types) and their toxic positivity lead me to think this is now cooked. One of the all time great worlds, magic systems, histories etc, squandered. I am sad, man!
If you told me this was written and edited by Reddit moderators I’d believe you. Man, so disappointing and one of the worst fantasy books I’ve read this year. The final arcs are better and probably the only reason I continue to read because this has taken me weeks to read. For reference I plowed through the Sun Eater books in a few weeks COMPLETELY.
Hopefully the time off of this series gives him perspective, but this series and its hardcore fans (sander-shelf types) and their toxic positivity lead me to think this is now cooked. One of the all time great worlds, magic systems, histories etc, squandered. I am sad, man!
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Deruvian
Lord Nagafen Raider
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Just finished
I'm struggling to give this one more than a 5/10.
Adolin pov - good
Dalinar pov - good
Sigzil pov- meh/boilerplate
Renarin pov -awful
Shallan pov - ok
Jasnah pov - mediocre
Kaladin/Szeth pov - ok
Venli - awful
- I think the only fairly epic moment was Taln going bananas.
- Backstory of Honor/Odium/Heralds/Humanity were cool.
- I didn't really need a dozen chapters setting up Szeth's backstory.
- The mental health over and over and over again wasn't very interesting to me.
- The syncing of a million different story lines for some big bang is a bit overdone at this point.
- Having every POV facing certain doom the entire book was a bit exhausting and linear.
- The showdown between the Odium's Champion and Dalinar was really anti climactic.
- Mraiz always being a step ahead seemed super unrealistic.
- The random oath breaking stuff at the end seemed dumb - plenty other interesting ways to get out of those situations
- The impact/ramifications of Odium effectively controlling Roshar seemed like it really didn't get as much airtime as it needed. Felt like the ending was more focused on off-world setup (which I'm not invested in as a reader) and less on the world they've spent 5 books building up.
Adolin pov - good
Dalinar pov - good
Sigzil pov- meh/boilerplate
Renarin pov -awful
Shallan pov - ok
Jasnah pov - mediocre
Kaladin/Szeth pov - ok
Venli - awful
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