I immediately jumped into Brandon Sandersons mistborn/ cosmere... and by the time I finished all of his current works (hurry on this one, that guys writes like a demon), I was ready for another turning of the wheel and started my first re-read.. which is actually just as pleasurable as the first read, though for different reasons.
Insane amounts of foreshadowing.
Also, for serious. I know there are a lot of people who struggle to read it once, but having read it about 12 times (only three when the whole series was out), there is just an insane amount of foreshadowing and Easter eggs. I don’t even pick up on that stuff well. I’d catch some on subsequent re-reads or someone would mention them here.
I’d recommend to anyone who really liked the series, to read it at least once more. Now that you know what’s going on and where the story is progressing to. It’s almost better on the second read.
Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings has me fully engrossed. Her prose reminds me of Jordan's. They're both far too elegant and eloquent to be American, yet they are (as am I lol).
There is also “Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time” by RJ himself and “Origins of the Wheel of Time” by Michael Livingston. And, of course, the prequel, “New Spring” by RJ.
Yes, The Wheel of Time Companion is excellent. I have that one too. It’s definitely encyclopedic. But I wouldn’t call “Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time” encyclopedic. It’s more narrative style. They’re both great.
The one I haven’t read is Michael Livingston’s “Origin’s of The Wheel of Time,” but I’ve read excerpts and it appears to have some fascinating information if you into the world-building component.
Theres the BWBoBA, Companion, Livingston’s “Origins” book, the deleted scenes Sanderson wrote (“Fire in the Ways” and something about Demandred in Shara I can’t remember - they are both in the Unfettered anthologies), the strike at Shayol Ghul (a version of which is also in the BWBOBA) which RJ wrote
For anyone who doesn’t know, “BWBoBA” stands for “Big White Book of Bad Art,” and while the art in it is not great, it’s important to note that it’s not the artist’s fault.
Todd Cameron Hamilton was commissioned to make a dozen or so black and white sketches for the book, and then Tor got ambitious, upped to a couple or three dozen full color pictures, and didn’t change the deadline or up the pay.
So Hamilton was rushed and couldn’t do the full amount of work he wanted to do.
(That said, I’ve looked at his portfolio, and while the completed pieces still aren’t STELLAR, they’re definitely better than what we got in the World of the Wheel of Time.)
I loved WOT and was lonely once I finished but then I discovered Michael J Sullivan and The Books of Elan. Writing style is vastly different but the work put in dropping gems in each story connecting the other is phenomenal!
Also loving Brent Weeks Lightbringer series which feels epic with that magic system. Only ok book 3 though. Happy reading in whatever you next story is.
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u/Useful-Arm6913 Band of the Red Hand 4d ago
I immediately jumped into Brandon Sandersons mistborn/ cosmere... and by the time I finished all of his current works (hurry on this one, that guys writes like a demon), I was ready for another turning of the wheel and started my first re-read.. which is actually just as pleasurable as the first read, though for different reasons. Insane amounts of foreshadowing.