Had to look up when this was written and was really hoping it was…really long ago? It was 2016, which to be fair does feel like a thousand years ago, but its not really far enough back for Sanderson to use as a plot point (and lame laugh lines) the fact that a secondary character (a senior scribe, who happens to be female) is fat. It’s just…gives the ick, you know, in a book that’s otherwise really enjoyable and written from a unique POV. The […]

What a fascinating story, exactly what I’ve come to expect but just because Sanderson is usually on point doesn’t mean we don’t give him credit for doing so! As always, this short story packs more of a wallop than many longer novels I’ve read and/or started to read and summarily abandoned. Briefly put, we start in the head of a trapper accompanied by his two birds, and while you expect that there is more than meets the eye it’s hard to get much because our […]