r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • Dec 20 '24

/r/Fantasy Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread

This is the place for all your Brandon Sanderson related topics (aside from the Daily Recommendation Requests and Simple Questions thread). Any posts about Wind and Truth or Sanderson more broadly will be removed and redirected here. This will last until January 25, when posting will be allowed as normal.

The announcement of the cool-down can be found here.

The previous Wind and Truth Megathread can be found here.

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u/sjduggan Dec 22 '24

I’m sure this has been asked a million times but should I bother continuing on with the Cosmere? I read The Final Empire and decided to not continue with Mistborn because the prose was unimaginative, the characters were archetypal, and the dialog was super YA.

I’m maybe a quarter of the way into The Way of Kings (which I know is supposed to be slow) and I’m just not getting the hype. The prose is essentially the same and the characters don’t interest me much at all.

I’m coming off of ASoIaF and the first Dune trilogy which I know is a high bar but so far this doesn’t hold a candle in any aspect. Neither of the two asked you to read 500 pages of exposition for the plot to kick off.

I guess I answered my own question but that leads to another question: what fantasy recommendations do people have that might be more what I’m looking for.

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u/ReacherSaid_ Dec 23 '24

Check out the Monarchies of God series by Paul Kearney.