I’m so torn about this book but at the same time I’m very into it! I’m back to realizing why people always speak of Sanderson as being a good author, in that he can weave together multiple plot points in a way that seems natural. There’s still too much plot in these books for their length, and I have no clue why my brother said “these are basically like shorter novellas compared to the original trilogy.” I mean, they are shorter books but they have a […]

It’s going to be hard to keep all the spoiler-y bits out of this review, so I’ll try to bifurcate it such that the spoiler parts are clumped together. First off, Wayne is a treasure and probably the best part of these books. I actually get a strong sense of like, Temeraire + Lawrence from His Majesty’s Dragon and the rest, with Wax a less boring foil for Wayne’s antics than Lawrence even managed to be. (Is it Laurence? That’s how much of a snooze fest he […]

I’m not saying I didn’t like this book–I did, and I already have the next two queued up (only just learnt that there’ll be a fourth! My brother did NOT tell me this, I’m not saying I wouldn’t have started had I known but also would I have started if I’d known? Unclear. But apparently the fourth is coming soon and so I “won’t have long to wait, I don’t understand why you’re being so finicky about this, imagine the rest of us who have […]