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 […]

Have given up trying to post these in order, I have. There’s a really cool thing that Sanderson does, which is collate a series of perhaps unrelated ideas into a cohesive. That might be under selling his skill set– perhaps each of these worlds is built from the ground up from entirely new ideas– but the author note seems to suggest that this story in particular grew from a seed of an idea grafted onto another seed, all of which was planted in the soil […]

Figured today is as good a day as any to review this book, seeing as how I have opened (NOTE: merely opened) The Way of Kings mere minutes ago and have great hopes of finishing it in the four days I have left remaining on my library loan (NOTE: between writing this and finally posting I have finished this book and the next and am ready to start the third). Even re-reading a detailed summary of this book was a TRIP. It’s almost cliche at […]

I liked it! And I am aware that Mistborn: The Final Empire was published only a year later. But it felt like a Brandon Sanderson novel was trapped inside of a realm, struggling to get out, and every so often a flash would squeeze out thorough a small crack but not really get a chance to be free, you know??? It’s always nice to get a little bit extra from a novel–I feel like these works are true encores, not the fake sorts of encores […]

Alright, folks, let’s talk about Elantris. For the nth time (I’ve lost count at this point), I’ve made a resolution to read the Sanderson-verse. It’s October and I’ve finally checked out The Way of Kings from the library so…it’s not looking great for completion, but at least we’ve started! And what a start it is. First things first: it’s fascinating to see how Sanderson has evolved as a writer. You can see the seeds of his later work here, especially when it comes to writing female […]