Pros & Cons
Pros
Love this series and this book in particular is my favourite and shipment was fast. My only disappointment is that this series here will be 10 books.
Great book. No defect on the book. Just freaking incredible. Took my time savouring it.
The way of kings was incredible, but this book stands on top of it's greatness to build an even more compelling and intriguing world. I think that it really helps us empathize with them and the story becomes a lot less black and white. Despite being b... Read More
Great book by an extremely prolific author. Well written makes you wanna kee p reading. Standard mass-market paperback.
Great story teller. Fantastic continuation of the previous story, even more epic stories and action.
Cons
Spends an inordinate amount of time in the character's head and emotions. However, the printing quality is abysmal. This either implies i have absurdly terrible luck or this is an alarmingly common issue.
Highlights
Quality
If you love world-building, great character development, battles, twists, magic and fantasy then this is the book series for you!
Great book, great story, most characters feel a bit caricatural at this point tho and some part of the book definetly felt drawn out.
Hard pressed by years of alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, eshonai, to risk... Read More
That means, for me, this lumbering monster needs to stun me about 4 times during its course and it failed to do that even once.
Shipping
This book arrived quickly and was in perfect condition, also an amazing book.
Showed up on time and was a good read
Competitiveness
In fact, i’d rate it higher than robert jordan’s wheel of time series.
All i can say is this author closely compares to robert jordan's multiple books.
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Still has that 34new book34 smell
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For an author who clearly has a strong command of writing and storytelling it is puzzling to me that he can’t give his characters more variable descriptives for facial expressions
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They’re confused sad frustrated angry…
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Sanderson is in no rush with his plots
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In fact i’d rate it higher than robert jordan’s wheel of time series
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I feel that most fantasy book authors hold jr tolkien in such high regard that their own books end up unintentionallyas pale imitations of the lotr series while mirroring its character arcs plot trajectories
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However fortunately brandon sanderson has completely avoided that trap
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Imo the high ratings of this series is well deserved