Hmm okay this can be a four star review, except that I do think that it dragged a bit in the middle and put it down (!!!) a handful of times, including once quite near the end to see whether I could get my hands on the next book in short order (as it turns out yes, I can) (thank you public libraries!). I noted this in my recent White Sands review, but this book has the turn towards the “okay, diplomacy and talking might […]

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 […]