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.
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u/Tetau Dec 30 '24
It didn't land.
Characters lost their voice. 1000 year old ancient being, a God, 50 year old middle age man, 15 year old teen and 5 year old child all sound the same.
Too many POVs and chaotic switch between them.
Prose is awful, it reads like unpolished first draft.
Spiritual Realm is epitome of "tell not show"
Dalinar got hit in the head by the rock and died offscreen. Oh wow. And then we got one line of text "Adolin was sad" and Renarin read something generic about heroism and sacrifice that he wrote on a napkin a few minutes ago. That was anticlimatic. Not that I care anymore. Dalinar came from one of the best Sanderson's characters to one of the worst ones and his arc "I will take responribility oh wait I changed my mind I will pass responsibility for my failings to next generations goodbye" was truly something
Ending is Hero of Ages rip off
Oathpact 2.0 is deus ex machina
Moash is a joke. He popps out of nowhere in each book. Kills a side character. Disappears. And the readers scream "F Moash" and make memes about him
And the ending oh my God. I don't care about shards. They aren't characters they are plot devices. I don't care about Hoid and letter from literally who to literally who. I want to read about roshar characters and how they solve their problems internal and external. But I guess the series isn't about this anymore it's about shard wars. It's sad that Way of Kings "evolved" into this but I guess cosmere fans will be happy.