Nathan

>This is a reread<

What a breeze for me on this reread; got through it in like 3 days. (I listened at 4x speed, I am more familiar with Michael Kramer and Kate Readings voices then my own parents' voices (≧∇≦)/ ) I find Sanderson so clever still.

The characters are all so compelling, that is why Sanderson is so great, it's not the “worldbuilding”, it's the character arcs. The point of the worldbuilding is to embody themes and to illustrate the characters. For example Kaladin uses magic to draw arrows to him, the point isn't that oh wow that a logical way to use the magic, it's to illustrate Kaladins self sacrificing nature. Okay just wanted to rant a little about this because I think people can lose the forest for the trees when it comes to this subject.

It's unfortunate that Shallan's story is so detatched from the main one, but alas that is the nature of epic fantasy.

Lirin's story is so sad a essentially good man, who is put in unfair situations. I've seen a lot of hate at him, but his teachings are the reason Kaladin makes some of his greatest moral decisions.

I'm still in love with Dallinar

Years of storm light research, and still no practical reason to have an archive. 9.5/10

“Life before Death, Strength before Weakness, Journey before Destination”

Incentives: exist

People: I'm going to follow those.

Economists: Believe it or not, people follow incentives.

8/10

“The great considerations of 1884” 9.1/10

He should of taught Rocky how to play football. 8.8/10

A very fun book. If you love 80s nerd culture especially.

I swear my girlfriend is real she just lives in Canada. 8.3 /10

>This review is for the whole trilogy<A really fun series. It was like a mix between [b:The Blade Itself 944073 The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) Joe Abercrombie https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1747782133l/944073.SY75.jpg 929009], by [a:Joe Abercrombie 276660 Joe Abercrombie https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1421267339p2/276660.jpg], and [b:Mistborn: The Final Empire 68428 Mistborn The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) Brandon Sanderson https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1617768316l/68428.SY75.jpg 66322], by [a:Brandon Sanderson 38550 Brandon Sanderson https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1721927489p2/38550.jpg]. In it's world it was kind of like a mix, and the tone was kind of halfway. Not as dark as the First law series but more violent then Mistborn.I really enjoyed almost all the main characters. The magic the powder mages used was so cool. Naya usually the least interesting plot unfortunately.“The age of kings is dead” 8.3/10

I thought it was really bad or at least unfun. When reading a first person book I like to like the character, I never saw many if any good attributes about Jude. She was traumatized but was still just an unpleasant experience to read. When a book is the first person perspective being weird for a literary reason I can appreciated it. But this one just felt like a poor self insert character which fit for the type of story it is but I don't enjoy.

There wasn't anything fun or whimsical about the fae either they are all just terrible and about power.

Just leave the fae to their own devices, and get a life of your own.