White Sand, Volume 2

Well, this is awkward. I had hopes for this book, but the art... gosh, I really hate the art.

I don't know how the story will end, since it seems like there's much more to this world to cover in just 3 graphic novels. Besides, this volume was slower than the previous one, so I have no idea how this is going to end.

I'm still gonna read volume 3, but I definitely prefer Sanderson's novels.

I find myself very much on the fence about the White Sand series. I am a huge fan of Sanderson, but I don't think his work necessarily translate into the graphic novel format too well. His writing style is very elegant and his world building is always fantastic, but it relies a lot on the description working with the readers imagination. When you put a graphical form to it, that imagination has less to work with.

I did feel this second book was better than the first. The world is more fully realised, and the character interactions better set up. I still find some of the jumping around between slightly jarring and hard to follow though.

This is a worthy addition to Sanderson's Cosmere oeuvre, but I feel that the format is not ideal. It would have been better as a novel. It is still an enjoyable read however and I can still recommend fans of Sanderson's work to check it out, but it is one of the less essential parts of the Cosmere universe.