My first time reading Sanderson's writing was when he was completing someone else's life work. Robert Jordan passed away with The Wheel of Time unfinished, and Sanderson did a good job of tying off a ton of story threads and character arcs in the last three novels which he completed. After that I started reading the novels of his ridiculously ambitious "Cosmere" metaseries in publication order. His style is not my favorite. I generally prefer fantasy where the magic is less concrete, and while he's quite good at plot twists, his frequent deployment of them means you spend a lot of the time not actually understanding what a story is about until the big reveal. Despite this, I haven't finished any of his work without coming away with strong positive feelings.
I just finished The Way of Kings today. Part of me thinks that I've never read such a long book in which so little really seems to have happened. But I still found myself interested in the different subplots, and there are a bunch of big changes and revelations at the end that make me want to pick up the next one right away. It was basically an extremely long and detailed prologue to a story I'd like to see play out.
What's your favorite book by Sanderson? Is his YA stuff any good?
I just finished The Way of Kings today. Part of me thinks that I've never read such a long book in which so little really seems to have happened. But I still found myself interested in the different subplots, and there are a bunch of big changes and revelations at the end that make me want to pick up the next one right away. It was basically an extremely long and detailed prologue to a story I'd like to see play out.
What's your favorite book by Sanderson? Is his YA stuff any good?